Contents:
- Medical Video: The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer
- Overview of the life cycle of head lice
- Where are the most common head lice found?
- Why can curse hair make it itchy?
- How do head lice spread?
- Difference between lice and dandruff in hair
Medical Video: The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer
Curse hair does not only make the head become itchy, but also can make you feel inferior to interact with other people. Because even though it is very small, hair lice can still be seen with the naked eye. Not to mention the eggs attached to the head look similar to dandruff.
Besides being able to make your head itchy, do you already know other important and interesting things about head lice? Check here, let's!
Overview of the life cycle of head lice
Just like other living things, head lice also experience their own life cycles. Starting from the mother laying eggs. Lice eggs, or nits, are often seen as small yellow, brown or brown dots before hatching.
Then, the hatching louse eggs become a colony of baby lice called nymphs. The lice eggs hatch within one to two weeks. After hatching, the remaining shell looks white or transparent, and will remain firmly attached to the hair shaft. These flea babies will mature within seven days after hatching.
Adult fleas can live up to 30 days above a person's head. Adult lice are like sesame seeds, have six feet, and are grayish gray in color. In people with black hair, adult lice look darker. To live, adult fleas need to "drink" blood several times a day. Without blood or if it falls from the scalp, lice will die within 1 to 2 days.
Where are the most common head lice found?
Flea eggs are found in the hair shaft that is close to the scalp. Meanwhile, fleas most often walk on the scalp, especially behind the ear and near the neck line at the back of the neck. Lice are rarely found in the body, eyelashes or eyebrows.
Why can curse hair make it itchy?
Curse hair is synonymous with itching on the scalp. Well, actually it's not a body lice that makes your hair and scalp itchy. Itching occurs as a reaction of the body to lice saliva that bites the skin to drink your blood. However, how long the appearance of itching depends on how sensitive your scalp is to lice.
How do head lice spread?
It's inversely proportional to what we have believed so far,head lice cannot jump or fly from one person to another. So, why can the curse be "contagious"?
These tiny parasites have specially adjusted claws so that they are able to crawl and stick tightly to the hair. Lice usually spread through direct contact which allows them to cross from someone's hair to someone else's hair.
For example, the use of personal items alternately such as clothes, sheets and combs. This habit can trigger the spread of head lice from one person to another. Children in particular are very vulnerable to fleas because they tend to have close physical contact with each other and more often borrowing from each other.
Difference between lice and dandruff in hair
Hair lice are often equated with dandruff. In fact, they are different. Dandruff is a white or grayish scalp that peels and sticks to your hair or looks on your shoulder. Dandruff easily falls, while head lice stick tightly to the hair shaft.
However, both of them actually make the scalp and hair feel itchy. So, if you really want to make sure the cause of itchy hair, consult with an expert.
