How many days can it take for nits or lice to appear?

Question

My daughter had a friend over to play 2 days ago. Her mom called today to say she has lice. I guess her daughter had been scratching earlier in the week, but she didn't think anything of it.

As of right now my daughter shows no signs. I've gone ahead & stripped her bed, vacuumed her floors. Not sure what else I should do since I don't see anything yet. I just want to know when we're in the clear!

Answer 1

Wait a week.

You can actually look for eggs and lice on her now. The adult lice will spread from child to child, lay eggs and die, which starts a new cycle.

Have someone help you, like your mom, if youve never looked for them before. Theyre REALLY hard to see, really hard to see.

Answer 2

My mother -n-law is a foster mom and we go through this all the tim ewith the foster kids. Eggs would be there now. they are mostly white. and it can take up to two weeks for lice to hatch. Start spray your house NOW with licesole and bag all stuff anamials up in a plastic bag. The lice it they can not breath. With as many kids we have comming and going we leave the stuff anamials in the bag for 10 days. Go get shampoo and a fine tooth comb and treet her hair now. and do the same with the pillows. Watch her to see if she starts scratching.

Answer 3

I would give her a mayonaisse treatment. Take a jar of mayo and apply it to her entire head. Saturate her hair in it. Then, wrap it with a show cap, and let it sit for 30 minutes. If the nits are in the hair they will come out when you wash the mayo out. Trust me, this will work. My daughter is biracial, and has fine fine hair like her dad(my husband is white) and I give her a mayo treatment twice a year, and we never have to worry about lice!!!

Answer 4

Here are some links that you may find helpful:

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/lice/page6_em.htm

http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/common/lice.html

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lice/DS00368

Hope these help :)