Yes, but you should not use medication, you should just comb it out yourself.
If you have head lice, you need to get treated as soon as possible. Once you are treated and you don't see anymore lice, you are no longer contagious.
Cases of head lice are usually treated with sham-poos or rinses containing either lindane (Kwell) or permethrin (Nix).
Usually no, you should get it treated immediately.
Once children have lice in their hair, they will keep them until treated. The lice process is: adult lice transfer from one head to another, the female lice lay eggs, the eggs hatch within 7 days the baby lice grow, they lay eggs and the whole process repeats itself.
All I know is that we could not rid our children of head lice, even after treatment, until we treated our bunny for lice. Once the bunny had been dusted with Sevin, and we retreated the kids, everything was good. I know experts say it can't happen - I know it did.
Head lice has been common in school children for years and even some adults can get them. Either you got the head lice from school and passed it onto your family and best friend or your best friend or another student could have passed it onto other students. Head lice will spread if not treated by the doctor and anyone you have come in contact with should see their doctor and be treated as well or the infestation of lice will continue to infect your family and best friend. Your parents should know better and believe you. Since they do not believe you have the school counselor telephone your parents so the counselor can educate them about head lice.
Head lice can live on any color or length of hair....they don't like color treated hair but they will infest it.
Yes - colour of hair is not relevant to head lice.
Most treatments apply to all types of lice infestation and, particularly with head lice, treatments are an area of great controversy.
Yes. Lice can jump from head to head - whether by hugging schoolgirls or boys playing sports (or vice versa). Lice should be treated and nits should be removed, before the child returns to school.
I taught Head Start for a few years and they had no more lice than any other children.
head lice are always a problem in primary schools, where children play close together, giving the head lice opportunity's to jump from one scalp to another, leaving eggs in there path.