how do u get lice?

Question

i no u can get it from another person but how does the first person get it

i no u can get it from other people but how does the first person get lice, i'm talking about hair not pubic

Answer 1

Three Types of Human Lice

The head louse (Pediculus humanus capitas) (DeGeer), the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) (Linnaeus) and the crab louse (Pthirus pubis) (Linnaeus) all occur on humans. All three cause considerable skin irritation as they feed on human blood or crawl on the body. Typhus, impetigo, trench fever and relapsing fever have all been transmitted by body and head lice. Scratching can lead to secondary bacterial infections leaving children feeling achy, feverish and/or lethargic. Human lice can establish and maintain themselves only on humans. A louse cannot hop or jump. They can, however, crawl fast. They are usually transmitted only through close personal contact. They are less frequently transmitted through the sharing of personal articles or toilet seats. For head lice, this includes combs, brushes and other grooming aids, hats, headbands, helmets, caps, headrests, wigs, curlers or other headgear, especially when these items are stored in shared lockers. They spread or infest by crawling, they live by biting and sucking blood from the scalp and can survive for up to 48 hours off a human head, and the nits on a hair shaft can survive from 4 - 10 days - so vacuum thoroughly and/or spray/clean with diluted enzyme cleaners or peppermint soaps. Head lice infestations have been a problem a long time - Pliny, a Greek naturalist (23-79 AD) suggested bathing in viper broth. Montezuma paid people to pick nits off his subjects, dried them and then saved them in his treasury. W. Coles in his 1657 book Adam in Eden: or Nature's Paradise noted that the oil from hyssop (Hyssopus) "killeth lice." Nicholas Culpeper in his 1681 The English Physician Enlarged recommended tobacco juice to kill lice on children's heads, a very early reference to the use of tobacco as an insecticide poison. Medical historians trace head lice infestations back 9,000 years! In the U. S. head lice are not "known" to spread disease or cause serious injury - they are only considered to be "repugnant". Like other U. S. public health agencies, the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention have never tracked head lice outbreaks, said official, Tom Skinner. Sometimes called "mechanized dandruff." Head lice may be nasty, itchy and very contagious, but the poisons sold to get rid of lice are even worse. Among the reactions to poison shampoo or lice "treatments" are seizures, mental retardation, many different allergies and respiratory problems, strange tingling, burning, itching, attention deficit disorders, brain tumors, leukemia, cancer and death. We do not suggest the use of poisons to control lice.

Head lice and body lice, which are different forms (subspecies) of Pediculus humanus, are very similar in appearance. Lice are wingless insects whose legs have claws that grip and hold onto hair shafts. Their abdomens are distinctly longer than they are wide. Their are 6 pairs of breathing spiracles. Their color, which varies from dirty-white to rust to grayish-black, usually approaches the hair color of the host. Head lice almost always occur on the head where they attach their eggs (nits) to the hair; body lice prefer to live in the seams and linings of unwashed clothing, blankets and sheets from which they periodically crawl onto the skin to feed. Although body lice usually deposit their nits on unwashed clothing fibers, the nits are sometimes found on body hair as well. Head lice can change to become the color of the host's hair.

Crab lice live only on the hairy portions of the body. Their legs are adapted to grasp hairs which are rather widely spaced, and for this reason, these lice prefer the pubic and perianal regions. However, they can be found in eyelashes, head and arm pit hair.

Female head lice produce from 50 to 150 eggs (6 to 10 nits per day) which they usually attach to hair behind the ears, on the nape of the neck and occasionally to other body hairs. Nits may also be found in sports headgear, hats, combs, barrettes, scarves, brushes, etc. and other common means of infecting a host. The incidence of infestation is greater among persons with long or dense hair, particularly when regular and thorough grooming and washing is neglected. The eggs hatch in 5 to 10 days, and the young, which resemble the adults except for size, mature in 8 to 22 days during which time they undergo three skin molts to allow for their ever increasing body growth. Adults normally live only about 3 weeks or more, depending upon conditions. They do not resist starvation well - at 75o F. all head lice die after 55 hours without a blood meal.

Answer 2

They get it through close contact with another person and so on, That's why it's common with kids in schools etc. They don't jump as a lot of people think, you have to brush up against another persons head. They don't live for very long at all off the head so it's very unlikely you can pick them up off a couch or anything like that. It's common and they particularly like clean hair.
Tie your or your childrens hair back when mixing with a group of people. The safest and most effective way to erradicate them is to comb trough the whole head in sections with a special metal comb, when the hair is wet and has lots of conditioner worked through it.

Answer 3

lice is very wide spreading.....you can catch lice by laying on someones bed or just walking in the grocery store...lice can jump from someone elses head into yours..so just be careful whos hairbrush you use and be shure if you know someone who has lice that spent the night with you or something..spray where they slept and where they sat with lice spray because lice sticks around for a while....you can buy lice spray at a local drug store

Answer 4

Is your question how does head lice orginate? That is a good question.I know they are scary my daughter had them before .It can be very expensive to deal with buying all that medicine and cleaners.It takes alot of cleaning with clorox and vaccuming everything to get rid of them .

Answer 5

It goes back in time infinitely! Lice can't create themselves -- they just crawl from one warm head to the next at every opportunity.

Answer 6

the first person got it the same way

Answer 7

It's just passed from person to person. You can get it from just about anyplace a person who has it has been. (Movie theater seats, etc.)

Answer 8

the same as the first person to get crabs

Answer 9

from how dirty a persons hair is

Answer 10

You can get it fried from your local Chinese take-out.