Remember how they say, you should always listen to your kids? In the case of head lice, you really have to take this to heart.
If your kid comes home complaining of an extremely itchy scalp, inspect it right away.
This could be the warning signs of head lice.
In the household, lice are not just a problem of an individual.
They are a problem for everyone.
Lice will spread to hosts they come in contact with.
They can survive on furniture and carpets as well as beds and clothes for some time waiting for a new host.
If you find lice on your kid's scalp, be ready to mobilize the whole house to get rid of these parasites.
The first step of course is to treat the child.
You would probably buy an anti lice shampoo for this job.
They usually require you to apply it to the child's scalp dry, without any water, and then rinse it off after about ten minutes.
With the hair still wet, you'd want to also make a manual inspection of the scalp.
With a lice comb, you can clean out any remaining lice or eggs still in that hair.
The infestation will only stop if you can pick out all of the survivors that can restart the breeding process.
If you have more than one kid, you have to repeat this for all of them, even if only one of them is confirmed to have the lice.
As said before, lice spread from host to host and brothers and sisters are going to be in constant contact with each other for most of the time.
Ensuring that none of your kids is carrying the parasite is the first step to clearing them out.
The house now has to be cleaned as well.
Lice hide in beds or pillows so all of your beds and pillows have to be cleaned.
Hot water or 20 minutes in a dryer on the hot cycle is enough most of the time.
Dry clean anything that isn't machine washable.
Toys and other things that are plush can also give them places to hide.
If they are small enough, keep them sealed so that no air can get to the lice and they die out of oxygen deprivation.
They are also vulnerable to cold so use that to your advantage should there be any place cold you can store lice-infested possessions.
Anything that comes into direct contact with hair or scalp has to be washed off with alcohol or thrown out.
Vacuuming all of your carpets, upholstered furniture, or car seats is also a must if you plan to stamp out the creatures from your home.
Remember, it takes only a few surviving lice to restart the whole thing.
Although there is no real guarantee of preventing lice from ever entering your home, you can minimize it.
Talk to your kids about lice and tell how they are spread and how they can be really hard to find and kill.
Sometimes knowing more about them can go a long way in not just preventing them but understanding them.
This can be really helpful to your kids should they come into contact with lice, either their own or others, and how they react to it.
If your kid comes home complaining of an extremely itchy scalp, inspect it right away.
This could be the warning signs of head lice.
In the household, lice are not just a problem of an individual.
They are a problem for everyone.
Lice will spread to hosts they come in contact with.
They can survive on furniture and carpets as well as beds and clothes for some time waiting for a new host.
If you find lice on your kid's scalp, be ready to mobilize the whole house to get rid of these parasites.
The first step of course is to treat the child.
You would probably buy an anti lice shampoo for this job.
They usually require you to apply it to the child's scalp dry, without any water, and then rinse it off after about ten minutes.
With the hair still wet, you'd want to also make a manual inspection of the scalp.
With a lice comb, you can clean out any remaining lice or eggs still in that hair.
The infestation will only stop if you can pick out all of the survivors that can restart the breeding process.
If you have more than one kid, you have to repeat this for all of them, even if only one of them is confirmed to have the lice.
As said before, lice spread from host to host and brothers and sisters are going to be in constant contact with each other for most of the time.
Ensuring that none of your kids is carrying the parasite is the first step to clearing them out.
The house now has to be cleaned as well.
Lice hide in beds or pillows so all of your beds and pillows have to be cleaned.
Hot water or 20 minutes in a dryer on the hot cycle is enough most of the time.
Dry clean anything that isn't machine washable.
Toys and other things that are plush can also give them places to hide.
If they are small enough, keep them sealed so that no air can get to the lice and they die out of oxygen deprivation.
They are also vulnerable to cold so use that to your advantage should there be any place cold you can store lice-infested possessions.
Anything that comes into direct contact with hair or scalp has to be washed off with alcohol or thrown out.
Vacuuming all of your carpets, upholstered furniture, or car seats is also a must if you plan to stamp out the creatures from your home.
Remember, it takes only a few surviving lice to restart the whole thing.
Although there is no real guarantee of preventing lice from ever entering your home, you can minimize it.
Talk to your kids about lice and tell how they are spread and how they can be really hard to find and kill.
Sometimes knowing more about them can go a long way in not just preventing them but understanding them.
This can be really helpful to your kids should they come into contact with lice, either their own or others, and how they react to it.