How does a person get lice?

Answer 1

They live in peoples hair and feed on blood from the scalp and laying their eggs at the hair roots.

They spread from person to person when peoples heads touch or you place your head were someone who has lice recently had their head.

Lice like nice clean hair to live in! There are treatments that you (and your family - you need to treat everyone in the household) need to get from a chemist to get rid of them.

They have been living on peoples heads and have been passed from one person to another down from the time of our monkey ancestors (they have evolved with us).

Answer 2

The easiest way to get lice is by sharing personal products (such as a hair brush, comb, etc.) with an infected person. You can also get them in public sitting areas, since these often go uncleaned (ie movie theater seats, etc.). Lice can jump too so they could have got it from anywhere. They got it from somebody else. And if you have lice you can pass them on too just by hugging someone, standing beside them in a queue or sharing a pillow.

Answer 3

A person or child does not contract lice because they are dirty like some people think. Lice are very contageous though, you catch them by using someones brush, comb, towel, anything that might touch to your head that belonged to that person. Lice are comon in children because as we all know kids lay, jump, crawl, rub all over everything and anything. There are products on the market, drug stores to kill these.

Answer 4

Actually, lice don't really grow in your hair. These creatures could have been from another person's hair or the environment that you're living in. Lice suck the blood in your head for health and especially for growth. Buy a lice shampoo to help remove lice from your hair.

Answer 5

you usually get lice from other people who has lice

Answer 6

The louse will simply crawl (very quickly) from one human host to the other. Also both boy and girl can get lice

Answer 7

Lice can travel to your head from another person's head, if your two heads are in contact or very close (as might happen if you are sleeping in the same bed) or if you share headgear.

Answer 8

from wearing other's people hats, sunglasses, headbands, ponytails ext.