Unfortunately head lice is quite prevalent these days, it is the second most common affliction among school age children right after the common cold.  Chances are high that sometime in the first 15 years of your child’s life they will get head lice.

You should not be ashamed or feel embarrassed.  Lice do not need to be as overwhelming as you might think.  

The most common way for head lice to be transferred to another person is from having head to head contact with another individual who has head lice.  

Since head lice do NOT jump or fly, as many people think, it is when heads are touching (selfies) and one louse crawls onto another person’s head that the cycle can begin on someone else's head.  Other common ways to get head lice are by sharing…..a hat, hair brush, dress up clothes etc.

Other common ways to get head lice, believe it or not, is on trains, planes and automobiles, as well as, movie theatres.

This information is not to make you paranoid... it is simply to educate you to help eliminate the event of a recurrence. 

Pediculosis, more commonly known as head lice starts out with as little as one pregnant female louse.

From there that pregnant female starts laying her eggs (called nits) about 1/4 of an inch from the scalp.

In about 7 to 10 days these nits hatch into baby lice (called nymphs).  In 7 to 10 days of being hatched these nymph's are now fully mature adults (called Lice) and they start reproducing.  The adult lice will live for up to 32 days.  

In that 32 days the female louse will lay between 150-250 nits...and so the cycle continues until you get rid of all of the lice and their nits.  

No matter what remedy you put on the infested person's head, be it a lice shampoo or rinse, home remedy or store bought you will need to remove ALL of the nits in order to be lice-free.  

Once you know how to do this properly, it will not be the 10-15 hour job that most people put in.  

It typically takes approximately 1 to 2 hours to completely de-louse someone. In extreme cases of infestation and/or very long thick hair it will take longer.

Based on individual needs.