When Do You Start A Lice Treatment?
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The stages of the head lice life cycle are broken up into nine key steps:
1) Day 1 - First, the eggs are laid. They are firmly attached to your hair — around the base of the strands.
2) Day 7 - They emerge from the egg around a week later.
3) Day 9 - They go through their first molt — or shedding of their outer layer — two days after they hatch. They get bigger with this molt.
4) Day 12 - They go through their second molt three days after this and get even larger.
5) Day 17 - Their third and final molt takes place 5 days later. They are now in their adult forms.
6) Day 18 - The adult forms of the males and females — which look slightly different from one another — begin to mate and reproduce immediately.
7) Day 20 - Females will lay their first batch of eggs around 2 days after mating.
8) Day 21 - 34 - Females can keep laying eggs for the next 16 days — up to 8 per day
9) Day 35 - After — at most — 35 days of life, the adult lice die.
If your child complains their head itches they probably have had lice for up to two weeks so you need to start treatment immediately.
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