Choosing The Right Lice Comb
For those infected with lice, regardless of what treatment they are looking to use, whether it is an over-the-counter lotion, an anti-lice prescription medication, or some home remedy, it all boils down to getting rid of the nits with a good lice comb. Lice combs are not a means unto themselves; however, they complement existing treatments and get rid of nits that could possibly hatch into a new colony of lice.
The effectiveness of your current treatments are highly dependent on how good your lice comb is in sweeping off the carnage. Make no mistake, lice are pests that proliferate quicker than you can imagine, and they mate frequently to reproduce spawns. Apart from that, they have developed defense mechanisms that make them harder to eradicate.
In their one-month life span, a single female louse can produce as much as 150 nits or louse eggs. If you have about 5 fertile mated pairs on your head, it won’t be long before you have a full-on colony. With a 67% survival rate per clutch, each female louse can produce as much as 100 nymphs. If each batch of nymphs has a survival rate of 52%, the entire population of new lice from your 5 pairs of lice would be around 261. This is compounded by the fact that it only takes them a little over a week or so to mature and start reproducing. In short, if you don’t address your lice and nit problem immediately, things would only become more severe. Time is against you. You need to resolve the issue now.
The thing you have to remember is that nits are would-be lice waiting to happen and with the volume to which they are laid, there is no way you can pick them out one by one by hand. This is precisely why lice combs are met with a sense of exigency; without them, those nits cannot be fully removed.
Finding the right lice comb is the key to effectively cleaning hair off of any louse eggs left. You want your lice comb to be durable, with really long, fine and close teeth to tackle individual hairs. Look at the area between the teeth and the handle and make sure that it is compact enough not to allow lice and eggs to hide in them. Choose lice combs that are made out of metal as they are more hygienic and long-lasting. You can also sterilize them in intense heat without the fear of having them melt.
Metal lice combs are important as they can be kept clean so that they can be used till each and every lice and nit has been located and removed.
The process of removing lice is long and arduous, but it is important to be patient. Not everybody can afford to go bald and remove the problem in one go. Because people want to keep their hair, they need to go through the steps over and over again till the parasites and their eggs have been fully removed.
