The Truth About Head

Lice You Need to Know

Head lice don’t spread dangerous diseases

Lice can be extremely annoying, but they don’t

really spread any diseases as such, like
mosquitoes or rodents. However they can
make your scalp itchy and cause sores when
you scratch your head excessively due to
irritation.

A head lice infestation isn’t related to how clean or

dirty a person’s body is

It doesn’t really matter if you wash your hair

regularly or not; hygiene and head lice are
not related. Head lice can be pretty clingy and
washing your hair with shampoo won’t make
them let go of your hair that easily, if at all.

Cutting your hair shorter won’t prevent a head lice

infestation

Lice can live in hair that is buzzed short and

thus, unless you are planning to make yourself
completely bald, there is no point in cutting
hair short to prevent head lice.

Adults aren’t immune to a head lice infestation

Adults with school-going children are more

prone to end up with a lice infestation, since
they will have closer contact with children who
could have picked up a few lice from school.

Your pet cannot spread head lice to your family

Lice thrive on human heads and blood, and

thus do not live on animals, especially on your
pet. Thus you only have to worry about head
to head contact with other humans and not
with animals in terms of head lice.

Head lice cannot jump, swim or fly

The truth is that they can crawl pretty well,

reproduce and feed on blood, but they cannot
do anything else like other pests that keep
flying and jumping around your home.

Head lice don’t live long

Adult lice can live upto thirty days as long as

they have access to a warm human head and
fresh blood. However, if they stay apart from a
human host and are cut off from their food
source, they can live for only one to two days.