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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How long do you need to do daily comb outs? When we've had lice, I combed twice a day for a couple of weeks, and it did the trick through the life cycles and catching anything I missed at first. Until the next year, when they brought them home again. . .

I've been trying to convince relatives whose kids keep getting lice over and over that they need to do more than a one-day treatment. They also think real head lice and nits are large, as they were in their native country. They shrug off the smaller nits we get in the U.S. [/quote]

Really  you don't need to do daily comb outs.  I like to do it and recommend it to keep people really squeaky clean.

If you think about the life cycle of lice, they hatch after about one week, and become sexually mature in about another week.  So really if you comb once a week you are going to stop the new hatchlings from becoming sexually mature.

But I don't want any bugs on my head at all, so if I know there was a lice infestation in my home, I comb daily.  Once it's gone I go back to weekly preventive combing.

You are right that your friends are not doing it right.  Follow up care to catch the stragglers as they hatch is the key to being cured.[/quote]

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