Human Head Lice

LET US TALK ABOUT LICE….HUMAN HEAD LICE, THAT IS.

There are over 3,000 plus types of lice, only three belongs to us, human head lice, human body lice and human crab lice. Blood is their only food. They do not have teeth. Human Crab Lice: Are found on human pubic hair, they can also live on the human head hair and human eye lashes and eyebrows…here is a picture of a crab louse. Human Body Lice: Are found anywhere on the human body including the head. These lice look like human head lice but they live on and lay their eggs on your clothing and feed on your body’s blood. They are basically found on individuals who are unhygienic. An example of this is the soldiers who fought during world war 1 and 2 had body lice as they were unwashed and had to wear the same clothing for long periods of time. Body lice and head lice look alike. Human head lice are parasites meant to be on us. As we are parasites on the earth, head lice are parasites on us. Simply put, we all have a parasitic symbiotic relationship with each other. If you are grossed out about head lice and their nits living on our head, imagine what the earth must be thinking about us as we do worse acts to the earth. Yes, head lice do, drink our blood, urinate, defecate and populate on our heads, after all, our head is their world. I call it instant karma. Because body and head lice look alike, head lice became hated and stigmatized due to body lice. This is why most families are ignorant about lice and are embarrass about head lice. The truth about lice is that they are meant to be on us under certain circumstances.

What these circumstances are, we do not really know. Because they are parasites on us, we carry the bacteria responsible for them to manifest. I like to use the analogy of fruits and fruit flies to explain about head lice; we buy fruits and depending on the ripeness, you end up with fruit flies. Where did the fruit flies come from? Well, because the fruits carry the bacterias responsible for fruits, you can safely say that they came from the fruits. Similarly, we can manifest lice under the right environment. So, where did lice come from? Simply put, us! As long as we have been around, so has lice and when we cease to be so would lice. We cannot prevent head lice, but we can take preventative measures to ensure that should they come on our heads, we can remove them. The most efficient way of removal is by manual combing with a good lice comb.