Platinum lice. Cootie

Usually these creatures like to settle in the seams of clothes, especially woolen, knitted, terry, but never in silk or satin fabric. They can also live in pockets, under the collar, in belts, hats and all sorts of fabric upholstery. It is in the clothes for these bloodsuckers that a favorable microclimate is created so that they can develop in it and feed on the blood of people, continuing to bite them, as they do in the hairline. They do not jump, but only crawl from place to place. Eggs (nits) are laid in clothes in hard-to-reach places (at the seams, inside pockets, under the lining).

This phenomenon is also called pediculosis, but not the head, but already underwear, clothes. The bitten places usually not only itch badly, the legs also become inflamed and burn. With multiple lesions of skin areas in a person, even the temperature can periodically rise, which will indicate the presence of an infection that has come from lice bites into the blood.

1. In kindergartens, schools, sports clubs, camps;
2. Through close contact with the homeless
3. In a temporary refugee camp.
4. In those places where the homeless spend the night, for example, in the subway or train.
5. In the trenches, shelters during the fighting.
6. In the rooms of cheap unkempt hotels
7. AT in public places- for example, transport, baths, saunas, hotels.
8. On the beaches, etc.

Even in open waters where infected people swam, these insects can appear. After all, they may well live in aquatic environment about 2 days. Therefore, even on the sea or river in places of large crowds, there is a risk of becoming infected with body lice. Be careful with clothes made of wool, linen or cotton. Silk or any other creaking fabrics can not be checked before processing - all the same, lice do not start there.

Methods of getting rid and means

Compared to head lice, bed lice are more easily eliminated than head lice. Moreover, you can finally destroy them even at one time (a day). Among simple ways, the easiest is to call the sanitary and epidemiological station and call a specialist who knows how to properly, effectively and quickly remove lice on things. However, if it is not possible to pay for such a service, then you can carry out the entire procedure yourself. To do this, you need to go through several important steps:

1. Carefully remove all clothing or collect all dirty linen (both bedding and underwear).
2. Then upload everything to washing machine.
3. After that, add directly to things any insecticidal agent, which is intended for the destruction of linen lice.
4. If there are no funds, then you can add vinegar or tar soap to the washing machine, which is very cheap in price (on average - 15 rubles).
5. Washing should be carried out at the highest temperature of water possible in a washing machine, or according to the instructions for use of the pediculant.
6. In addition, clothes can also be boiled, boiled in a basin.
7. The body should be thoroughly washed with a special shampoo or cream that has a pediculating effect.
8. The substance on the body must be kept for 30-40 minutes, and then washed off.
9. All wounds are treated with special therapeutic agents - creams, lotions, oils.
10. Next, clean clothes are put on the person. Moreover, it should be not only washed, but also ventilated before for several days.

Lice (both clothes and head lice) die immediately at hot temperatures. That is why it is best to process things either by boiling or using chemicals in a washing machine with hot water. At least at a temperature of +60 degrees Celsius, but the most optimal temperature is +80 degrees. Best Option to carry out the final processing of things is to send them to a disinfection chamber, where all things will be processed with hot steam. Such cameras are in any sanitary and epidemiological station.

When it comes to the destruction of lice on outerwear, which you usually do not wash in a typewriter, then you should think about professional products. You can spray on a thick coat of "Medifox", "Pyrethrin" or "Fenotrin". And then put everything in plastic bag and try to negotiate with a laundry or dry cleaning, where there is a large washing machine and disinfection room. The administration of such establishments usually undertakes the processing of things for a certain fee. But this is usually done when it is impossible to wash a heavy and thick coat in a home washing machine.

Bed lice remedies

Medifox

Among shampoos, the most effective in the fight against lice is Nok, Lauri, Bubil, Medifox, Veda-2. They can be added to the washing machine when processing things. Vinegar helps soften the tenacity of the nits, so they will fall off when washed and rinsed. You can boil clothes for 20 minutes.

Sometimes "Karboforos" is added directly to boiling water, where contaminated linen is boiled. This makes the lice killing effect even stronger. In addition to Karboforos, any other means can also be added, where there is a sufficiently large percentage of permethrin (1-5%).

Treatment of clothes pediculosis video:

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Dec 06, 2016, 6:16 pm

They got rid of body lice by the NOD after they moved into the old house they bought. Some unfortunate former owner lived there, apparently, he launched himself and his home. Old things, of course, were not washed, but simply burned, but we decided to process the velvet lining on the walls. We are still far from the repair, but we already have to live in the house. Therefore, we simply sprayed the panels on the walls abundantly with a 0.5% solution. The instructions say that this is a tool for treating the skin and hairy parts of the body, and that you need to rub the dissolved product. But we just sprayed the textured surface of the panels 3 times in 2 days. Then they just vacuumed everything because the upholstery of the walls sits very tightly. This is how we had to use the remedy - and we didn’t see more lice crawling there, we even checked through a magnifying glass.

Dec 14, 2016, 6:17 pm

We used Lauri when removing lice, which we brought home from our summer vacation. We lived in a cheap hotel, and picked it up there - we think that there is simply nowhere else. Well, we don’t have children, so that they don’t get infected. We are a young couple, recently married - and here it is! Shame! On the way we stopped at a pharmacy and bought some. The price seems to be normal, the instructions are clear. They washed all the towels, swimwear, things, hats, baseball caps and more. True, I thought that the creamy paste would not dissolve well in the machine, but no, it was even visible during washing that some kind of milk formed in which things were washed. Probably hand washing would be harmful to the skin. In general, all things were washed well, and the heads were also processed - everything went well, albeit unpleasantly.

Body lice are very similar to head lice. They have the same small body, the length of which reaches about 3 mm, and a slightly elongated abdomen, painted in light gray or light yellow.

Body lice larvae look very similar to adults and differ only in size - 1.5-2 mm. During their development, they experience three molts and only after that they reach full maturity.

The eggs of these insects, like other lice, are called nits. Their shell is covered with an adhesive substance, with the help of which they stick quite firmly on clothes and it is very problematic to remove them mechanically. The shape of the eggs is elongated, the size is about 0.5 mm. Due to their small size, nits are very securely hidden from human eye and cannot be found by chance.

The process of reproduction, as well as normal life, in body lice can occur under certain conditions - a temperature of + 30 ° C is considered optimal, and when the thermometer drops to + 15 ° C and below, the development of nits stops. If the air temperature drops below -13 ° C or exceeds + 60 ° C, then body lice are guaranteed to die.
Female individuals are able to exist for no more than 45 days, while males live even less, often less than a month. But for female body lice, this period is enough to lay 100-140 eggs (about 4 nits per day). When the nit comes out of the egg, she drinks blood once, after which she molts and immediately becomes a nymph of the first age. After 5 days, she experiences a second molt and turns into a nymph of the second age. The third time it changes its chitinous cover after another 8 days and after that it becomes an adult insect. At optimum air temperature in just 16 days former egg will give new offspring, that is, the hatched nymph will have time to mature and bring new nits. And if no action is taken, then in two months the colony of body lice will increase its numbers by several hundred times.

What is body pediculosis?

In fact, it is quite simple to prevent the development of body lice, the main thing in this matter is to know the ways of its spread, which include:

• bodily contact with the carrier, in which lice can move onto the clothes of a healthy person, and since these small insects are able to move at a speed of about 20 cm per minute, the contact should be quite long;
• you can get infected in crowded places, which include public transport, especially during rush hour, when contact occurs most closely;
• kindergartens and schools are also no exception, as children are in contact with each other quite actively and do not particularly pay attention to appearance your interlocutor;
• Spontaneous markets for the sale of used clothes, or simply second-hand ones, can become a real breeding ground for linen lice, since such things do not always undergo the necessary sanitization.

And in order not to get infected with head lice, you should take into account all the above methods of its distribution, be extremely careful in crowded places and try not to buy clothes, especially underwear, in potentially dangerous places.

The appearance of body lice will be "marked" by the following symptoms:

• bite marks, which, with a small amount, heal themselves after 4 days;
• itching appears at the sites of the lesion, both at the site of the bite itself and in the area surrounding it;
• an allergic reaction may occur, which will be accompanied by a rash on the body or more serious manifestations - fever, disorder digestive system, headaches, nausea;
• at in large numbers bites on the skin may appear bluish spots;
• constant itching can lead to nervous disorders and insomnia.

On a note! Children can react especially painfully to body lice bites. They will often cry for no particular reason, sleep poorly and be nervous for minor reasons.

As practice shows, most often it is the symptoms that indicate the occurrence of body lice, rather than the found insects. They hide so well in the folds of clothing that if you do not set a goal, then it is almost impossible to see them on any thing.

It becomes clear that it is the itching that appears at the bite sites that is the main symptom of head lice. The insect bites through the skin, saturates with blood and injects an anesthetic secretion that prevents blood from clotting.

Most often, body lice bites will be localized in places where clothes fit to the body:

• waist;
• shoulders;
• upper back;
• small of the back;
• armpits.

But bites can also occur on other parts of the body that are not covered with hair.

Important! Clothes pediculosis became the main source of development of relapsing and typhus, which claimed thousands of lives during the war. Today, such diseases affect mainly residents of African and Asian countries, where sanitary conditions leave much to be desired.

How to deal with these insects?

To get rid of body lice, serious measures should be taken, which include both the processing of things and the use of body products. The whole set of events will look like this:

• collect all infected items and wash them in automatic mode at the maximum allowable temperature. In this case, it is necessary to add one of the modern insecticidal agents;
  

  Advice! If you do not have the opportunity to do this, then it is recommended to take the clothes to the dry cleaners.

• treat the body with a pediculicide and wash it off after the time specified in the instructions;
• after carrying out these procedures, it is necessary to put on clean clothes, and hang the previously infected and washed things on the balcony and leave them in direct sunlight for two weeks.

Body Treatments

To combat body lice on the body, you need to choose a reliable remedy. These include shampoos, lotions and sprays:

• Pair Plus;
• Nittifor;
• Nit free.

They must be applied to the body, paying special attention to the affected areas, it is advisable to wrap yourself in polyethylene (you can use cling film) and wash off after a certain time. In various preparations, a time interval of 10 to 45 minutes may be indicated.

On a note! Kerosene is also included, but they can cause burns on the skin, and the effectiveness of such drugs is much lower than special ones.

How to process clothes?

Previously, the same was used to treat clothes from lice. It was added to the water in which the laundry was soaked, then it was all boiled, after which the lice were guaranteed to die. However, this method has a number of negative features:

• in washing machine it is undesirable to add kerosene;
• when washing by hand, wear rubber gloves, as the solution can cause a negative skin reaction;
• during boiling, kerosene vapor evaporates, which can lead to poisoning;
• it is quite problematic to remove the smell of this substance in clothes.

Therefore, today, in order for body lice to die, they choose easier-to-use and highly effective anti-pediculicidal drugs:

Important! Remember that the processing of the body must be carried out simultaneously with the processing of things. This will reduce the risk of re-infection.

natural remedies

The following recipes may come in handy for head lice, which has not yet developed to a serious extent. These methods are simple and, as practice shows, give a positive result quite quickly.

Body lice cannot live in hair - their paws are not adapted for this, and therefore they usually do not linger directly on a person's head. But they managed to perfectly adapt to living in clothes - in its folds, between the seams, in folds and pockets - confidently clinging to the fabric itself.

What do body lice look like?

Body lice look very similar to head lice. These are small insects with a body length of about 3-4 mm, whitish or grayish-yellow in color with a characteristic slightly elongated abdomen. The photo shows a body louse with a significant increase under a microscope:

Body lice do not have wings, which makes it easier for them to move around in their hair. On the other hand, because of this feature, they do not have the ability to easily and quickly move between their owners.

In the photo - body lice on fabric:

And the following photo clearly shows how body lice look after blood is pumped:

On a note

Body lice larvae differ from adult insects only in size - they reach a length of half a millimeter to 1.5-2 mm. During growth, they molt three times, and after that they turn into an adult insect.

Below in the photo you can see what the body louse looks like at the larva stage:

It is interesting

Only that stage of development of the louse that follows immediately after the egg is called a larva. The larva after the first molt is called a nymph.

Body lice eggs are called nits. They are attached to clothes with a special secret, and it is mechanically very difficult to tear them off from it. Each such egg has a slightly elongated shape and a length of about 0.5 mm. Usually, body lice nits can be quite difficult to visually detect on clothing.

The photo below shows what body lice look like after drinking blood:

It is interesting

As noted above, head and body lice are different forms of the same species. Under natural conditions, even on the body of one person, they usually do not meet each other (after all, they are separated purely territorially), but under experimental conditions they interbreed and give viable offspring. At the same time, the offspring itself has more signs of head lice, as the main form.

Lice avoid shiny, silk and satin clothes, love woolen and cotton fabrics.

This determines the contingent of victims of body lice - vagrants, beggars, refugees, soldiers in the war who cannot regularly change clothes; lice in their underwear find an ideal refuge. People who constantly wash their bodies and have at least two changes of underwear a week cannot live with body lice. In this they lose to head lice.

Despite being inactive, body lice can spread quite effectively between people. As a rule, they are transmitted through close contact between an infected and a healthy person, as well as through the use of someone else's clothing. This usually happens in:

• overnight stays for the homeless
• refugee camps, shelters during natural disasters
• trenches and tents during hostilities
• kindergartens and schools
• public transport
• saunas and public baths
• on tourist trips
• children's holiday camps
• dirty cheap hotels.

On a note

Body lice can survive in water for up to 2 days, and therefore they can, in exceptional cases, be transmitted by water even in open water. Such cases have been reported in India and Bangladesh.

By and large, any place where people gather can be a source of lice infestation. However, the easiest way for them to be transmitted is when people share clothes and underwear.

The fight against body lice and the treatment of body lice

Getting rid of body lice is not so difficult, and with the right approach, you can do it in just one day.

The easiest way is to contact the sanitary service or a special reception center. The audience there, of course, can confuse even the most notorious optimist, but the means and methods of processing there are so powerful that they will make it possible to remove body lice in just a few hours.

You can also get rid of body lice at home. To fight them you need:

• Remove all clothes, load into the washing machine, add any modern facility from body lice, and in the absence of such - vinegar or tar soap - and wash things at the highest possible temperature. Ideally, things should be boiled or dry-cleaned for processing in a steam-formalin chamber.
• Bathe thoroughly, wash the body with a pediculicide cream or shampoo, leave the product on the body for half an hour, then rinse thoroughly.
• Wear clean clothes that have been stored in a closet or weathered outside for at least two weeks.

It is advisable to change bed linen after this. It is impossible to wear untreated clothing in the field of infection.

Treatment of body lice bites consists in treating them with alcohol lotions, balms such as "Rescuer", and "Asterisk". In the presence of allergic reactions, symptomatic treatment is used (headache remedies, painkillers, decongestants) and antihistamines.

It is important to remember that dealing with body lice and treating the consequences of their bites is always more difficult than initially avoiding infection. Therefore, you should avoid places where you can get lice, do not contact with strangers and untidy people, do not spend the night in dubious places, use only your hygiene items and clothes, teach children to follow the rules of hygiene and sanitation.

Under these conditions, even in difficult life situations, it is quite possible to avoid infection with lice and never get acquainted with pediculosis.

Be healthy!

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Understanding what body lice look like is easy enough. Especially this process will not be difficult for people who have experienced head lice. The body of the insect can reach a length of 3 mm. Its abdomen is slightly elongated, and the color can be light yellow or gray.

The body louse lives for about a month. During this period, the female has time to lay about 100-130 eggs. But, having left the shell, the individual must transform several more times. Full puberty takes 16 days.

When a louse needs food, it moves from clothes to the body of its owner, drinks blood, and then returns to its former habitat again. Most often, these are folds and seams on clothes. The place for feeding lice is located precisely in the area of ​​\u200b\u200btheir localization. For example, if an insect has settled in the belt of trousers, then the place intended for “lunch” will be the lower back or lower abdomen.

Clothes louse - photo of an adult

Note! There is a small percentage of people who are not touched by these insects even in a heavily infested environment. Scientists explain this fact as typical only for this person metabolism, causing, in particular, the repulsive smell of human sweat.

Clothes louse - she is linen

Recognizing the appearance of a linen bloodsucker, especially in the summer, is not easy. Often its bites are attributed to mosquitoes. Or they assume that it is midges, ticks. You can consider in more detail what body lice look like using magnifying optics. The wingless bloodsucker has a body of 2–5 mm with a smooth abdomen and whiskers. With the help of a special enzyme, females glue their future, not yet born cubs (nits) to the fabric, they especially love natural materials except sliding silk. Warmed by the warmth of the human body, nits, and then the larvae, actively develop. In a state of sleep, a relaxed person becomes an object for their nutrition. Pierced skin gives access to blood vessels and louse, as it saturates, changes color, becoming darker.

Sometimes the itchy rash that appears is attributed to an allergic reaction of the body to food or medicine. Difficulties are also caused by the fact that, unlike the head and pubic varieties of the insect, the body louse is not constantly on the human body, but is mainly masked in seams, ruffles, assemblies of clothes and underwear.

Characteristic "marks" from linen lice

• In places of bites (these are mainly areas on the body where the seams of clothes are located under the armpits, on the back, shoulders, on the neck), hardening forms. They are associated with a special substance found in the saliva of the insect and injected with it into the wound. It does not allow blood to clot, together with a bite, the skin becomes thicker,
• The body reacts to the wound with intense itching, which leads to scratching of the skin. There are damage to the skin, through which the skin can become infected again, causing suppuration.
• The color of the body changes in places of bites. Here it is darker. If clothes pediculosis is already in running form, then skin acquire an unhealthy brown tint. They may be flaky. Scars form at the sites of wound healing.

With such symptoms, having carefully examined the seams on the clothes, the bed, you can easily detect body lice and the fight against them can be carried out purposefully. With nits (eggs) of insects, the situation is different. They are inconspicuous, not immediately recognizable. Inconspicuous grayish color and small size makes them practically invisible without optics.

It is the accelerated process of the resettlement of lice that forces us to take urgent measures to exterminate them.

Where can you pick up a linen louse?

Body louse causes a serious disease (pediculosis) that changes the composition of human blood. If it still showed up in your bed, look for where the insect was brought into the house.

Linen louse can climb out of someone else's bed

Methods may be different:

• put on someone else's underwear of unscrupulous owners (even for a short period of time);
• foreign infected items of clothing left for temporary storage were at home along with personal belongings;
• trying on clothes in the store;
• sharing one bed or bedding on the train;
• stay on a business trip with accommodation in a hostel, hotel;
• rest in a health-improving (labor) camp;
• tourist travel, etc.

Attention! In the question of how to get rid of bed lice, you need to look for the answer in a set of measures for disinfestation of insects: observe hygiene procedures for body, process by special means clothes, linen, and disinfect the entire apartment.

Struggle for effective results

The first detected symptoms of infection should alert and encourage the following measures:

• boil clothes for half an hour as often as possible, wash clothes at the highest possible temperature.
• When rinsing, add to the water, which destroys the upper protective covers of not only lice, but also nits.
• More often take out things in the sun, frost, iron slightly damp. Especially carefully iron collars, seams, cuffs.
• Daily take hot water procedures (shower) with tar or laundry soap.
• Wear only things that have been disinfected and only on a clean body.
• All furniture, especially upholstered furniture, should be treated with a solution of karbofos, a kerosene-soap composition.

Attention! Maximum high score for the disinfection of things, linen can be achieved in the disinfection chamber, which works in one of the following ways: disinfection with steam high temperature, hot (hot air), steam and formalin.

A popular remedy for linen lice

You can use the services of dry cleaning. Suitable for home use:

• means for dilution with water: Akromed, Avicin, Celandine;
• aerosols "A-PAR", "Executioner", "Farmigien Skat";
• another insecticide with the working substance Permethrin (Medifox) for the treatment of linen and bedding;
• for washing the body, washing solutions NOK, Veda-2, Lauri are effective.

The kerosene used by our grandfathers as a treatment for bloodsuckers has not lost its relevance either. However, the persistent smell that remains on the linen repels not only lice, but also compatriots. Therefore, the usual Karbofos and effective, but not cheap Microphos are able to solve the problem once and for all.

Herbal infusions can be used in combination with chemicals

When starting to harass a body louse, you need to be patient, clearly follow all preventive measures, use complex methods of struggle, try not to endanger yourself and loved ones, neglecting caution.