Itchy head ... Rainy day lice!
It's not an old story, February 24, 18:21
"Mama, my head is itchy" It's
funny, even though I'm shampooing properly.
With that in mind, I squeezed my child's hair and looked at it
...
Countless small white grains.
I was there.
Mozomozo and moaning insects ...
"No, oh, oh !!!!"
You may be surprised when you see it for the first time.
But it's not that unusual in a family with small children.
Experience stories "Panic at first" one after another
Recently, the tweet that "a child got a louse at a nursery school" became a hot topic on SNS.
There was a lot
of excitement about the experiences, such as
"I was killed" and "I thought it was dandruff at first" .
I was able to talk to a person who was injured.
This January, the blog name "Matsubokkuri" says that lice were found in the head of a daughter who goes to a nursery school.
Her fight against lice is made into a manga and posted on her blog.
In fact, this is the third time my daughters have been hit by lice.
It seems that it is repeated to find and remove it.
He talked about the shock when he first found it.
Mr. Matsubokkuri
"At first, it was eight years ago when my eldest daughter (11 years old) was still in the nursery school. When I was getting dressed in the morning, I found something like a small grain of rice in my hair. Insect. It was moving. I panicked and couldn't do anything on the spot. "
From that experience, when he found a small grain in the hair of his third daughter (6 years old), he immediately noticed that it was a louse egg.
An adult was also found when she squeezed her hair.
It seems that he accidentally pinched it with his bare hands and crushed it.
Mr. Matsubokkuri
"I was almost crazy. If I was the third daughter, I must be the eldest daughter, the second daughter, and I. It made me sick just thinking that way."
After that, I found an adult from my second daughter.
Matsubokkuri-san ran to buy a special shampoo containing insecticidal ingredients to get rid of it.
It should have been possible to get rid of it after using it for about 10 days.
(Matsubokkuri's story continues in the latter half of the article)
"Lice" that is different from the past and now spreads even with cleanliness
Some people may think of such an image when they hear "lice".
Immediately after the end of the war, the white powder on children is an insecticide.
The problem at that time was mainly lice called "body lice".
As the name suggests, it not only adheres to clothes and sucks blood, but it is also a troublesome entity that transmits a disease called "genuine typhus".
However, when the sanitary environment improved due to postwar reconstruction, "body lice" disappeared rapidly, and now another type of "head lice" that parasitize the head is spreading.
It does not transmit the disease.
It also seems to parasitize regardless of whether it is clean or not.
Professor Yu Natsuaki, Hyogo College of Medicine, who is familiar with skin diseases caused by insects
"Head lice are popular insects that have been around for a long time and spread in situations where the heads stick to each other. Some parents blame themselves, but that's not the case. No matter how clean they are, they will infest.
For the past two years or so, many nursery schools and schools have been closed due to the corona illness, so I come to consult with them. The number of cases has decreased, but I have the impression that the number has increased again. I've heard from fellow doctors that some people have recently started to see the doctor. "
Even if you parasitize and start sucking blood from your scalp, it takes about a month before you feel itching, so when you notice it, it often spreads considerably.
It seems that there is no statistical data on how much damage it will cause because it is not a disease, but he told me that he was worried.
Professor Yu Natsuaki, Hyogo College of Medicine
"In a joint research conducted with the National Institute of Infectious Diseases about 10 years ago, it is known that there are head lice that are resistant to conventional insecticidal components. In Okinawa, more than 90% of them were already at that time. , A little less than 10% of the national average was resistant lice. We expect that it will spread nationwide. "
Does the previous drug work?
!!
Struggling with resistant lice
This is a pinecone whose daughters were damaged by head lice.
It seems that the special shampoo containing insecticidal ingredients did not work well.
This shampoo can remove lice by repeating the cycle of washing hair once every three days four times.
When lice were found in the past, they could be removed with this.
However, when the third time was over, an adult was found again.
It was evidence that the larvae hatched and grew from the eggs.
If I had to physically remove it, I bought a comb dedicated to removing fine lice.
Every morning, I continued to remove the eggs from the children's hair.
On the 16th day after starting the extermination, the eggs were finally found and the end was reached.
Mr. Matsubokkuri
"I wish I had checked my child's head more regularly. When I looked it up later, it seems that a shampoo that works against resistant lice has also been developed, so I should have used it. Hmm"
Practical edition Where are you from?
How to get rid of it?
Where does the louse come from?
Even in Tokyo, about 1000 consultations about head lice are received every year.
According to the person in charge, there are two main routes.
▽ From head to head
▽ From personal belongings (bedding, hats, towels, brushes, etc.) to the head
Children are closer to people than adults and are often so close that their heads stick together.
If you find lice on your child's head, you should think that they may be with your friends and family.
Next is how to find it.
Adults and larvae move around their heads and hide, so the point is to look for "eggs".
Eggs tend to stick from around the ears to the collar, so be sure to scrape your hair around here and look carefully.
It is a method of extermination.
What to do
1.
Daily hair wash
2.
Comb your hair with a comb
3.
Do not share personal belongings
It is more effective to use shampoo containing a special insecticidal ingredient than ordinary shampoo.
However, eggs cannot be removed.
Comb your hair with a fine comb such as a squid for 10 days to remove eggs, larvae and adults.
Do not share your personal belongings such as combs, towels, hats, mufflers, clothing, and bedding with other people, and wash and use them every day as much as possible.
Hideyoshi Kimura, Chief of the Bureau of Social Welfare, Tokyo
"You can get rid of head lice by taking all the measures from 1 to 3. In the case of children, it may not be possible to wash every corner of the head by yourself, so it is low. Parents should wash their heads thoroughly during the school year and observe their heads diligently. "
I asked a question about head lice
Finally, we asked Professor Natsuaki to answer questions about head lice that are often searched online.
Q How do you distinguish it from dandruff?
There is also dandruff that looks just like a louse egg.
Dandruff is relatively easy to remove, but eggs are stuck to the hair and are not easy to remove.
Q Is it possible to get rid of pets?
Because it is a human-specific lice, it will not be transmitted from pets.
Is it moving in the Q pool?
It does not move through water.
However, it may be transferred when you share a towel that wipes your body or when your heads approach each other.
Q Can I go to a nursery school / school?
If you have started disinfection, there is no problem.
Q Is it true that vinegar works?
There is no data that it is effective.
Not recommended.
(Good morning Japan Director Nanae Iwanaga Network News Department Reporter Naoko Okubo Shinichiro Kuninaka)