Lice

Lice infestation
Definition
Lice infestations (pediculoses) are infections of the skin, hair, or genital region caused by lice living directly on the body or in hats or other garments.
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Lice are tiny, wingless, parasitic insects that feed on your blood. This itchy infestation is easily spread - especially by school children - through close personal contact and by sharing personal belongings.
Several types of lice exist: ...
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Lice are tiny insects that can infest the skin anywhere on the body. Lice infection is characterized by intense itching.
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Lice are highly contagious; they can spread between people who have never met, via upholstered theater seats, department store clothing or coat checkrooms.
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Head lice infect the scalp and hair and can be seen at the nape of the neck and over the ears. Head lice spread easily and quickly but do not carry disease as other lice do.
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Lice are tiny, gray insects that can affect a person's hair or skin. Head lice attach themselves to the hair shafts. Body lice live in the seams of clothing and come out to bite the person's skin.
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Lice bite through the skin to suck blood. They also lay eggs and attach them to hairs. These eggs, called nits, hatch in 8 to 10 days, producing more lice.
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Head lice are tiny insects that live on the head and in the hair. They're highly infectious and easily passed between children who tend to work closely with their heads together, at school and at play.
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Lice, body with stool (Pediculus humanus)
Body louse, female and larvae
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Lice-killing shampoos and lotions will eliminate the problem.
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LICE (Pediculosis)
SYMPTOMS"Itching of the skin, often on the head, trunk, or pubic area. Lice eggs can be seen on one's hair. The person will feel like he is overheated or has a slight fever.
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Nit: Nits are lice eggs. They are hard to see and are often confused with dandruff or hair spray droplets. Nits are found firmly attached to the hair shaft. They are oval and usually yellow to white. Nits take about a week to hatch.
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Rickettsia prowazekii causes louse-borne typhus, carried from person to person by two species of lice. Flea, or murine, typhus, caused by R. mooseri, is transmitted from rodents to people by fleas. Trench fever, caused by R.
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Crabs is the common term for lice found in the pubic hair of humans. Barely the size of a pinhead, lice are organisms that live only with the help of another organism, called a host.
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Indication: OTC pediculicide for treatment of head, pubic, and body lice. Other RID products include shampoo, lice control spray, and egg loosener gel. Distributed by Pfizer Consumer Health Care. Source: FDA approvals - 03/07/00.
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The health risks from use of a public restroom are principally from the bacteria, lice, or viruses left by previous users. It is well known that these organisms can survive on hard surfaces for an extended period of time.
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(A parasite is a disease-causing organism that lives on or in a human or another animal and derives its nourishment from its host.) Lice are examples of parasites that live on humans; ...
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An infectious disease spread to people by the bite of ticks, mites, fleas and lice. Typhus is characterized by high fever, headache and a rash.
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