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Lice are a plague of insects of the human head hair. They lay eggs near the scalp and move around the head freely without losing control, because of its long, strong and powerful front legs.
Head lice live for up to six weeks and multiple rapidly, moving from colonizing human host to human host as they go. It takes only a female louse to start an infection, which can seat a maximum of two hundred and ten eggs in her life. In their infancy the head louse, during this period known as the nymph goes through metamorphoses three times, shedding exoskeleton each time.
The most likely source of an infestation is from children between the ages of four and eleven year of age, they will normally catch an infestation from school or after school clubs and pass on to their family or friends.
Because more than one million years of evolution to live in human hair the head louse is every bit as adaptable to treatment and to human's defense.
Interesting information and facts about head lice:
- Head lice have been evolving for over a million years.
- Head lice live only in human head hair and can not survive anywhere else; if they happen to fall out of the human hair they die within 48 hours.
- Head lice are not dangerous and do not carry disease, they just cause itching and rashes.
- Head lice do not have wings
- Head lice can only move from host to host - through person to person contact and in some other cases of clothing and personal items.
- A nit is the name given to the dead or empty eggs.
- There is no discrimination between clean hair and dirty hair, head lice just love to live in people's hair and feed on scalp no matter what the hygiene condition of the host.
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