Question 1

how long can you have lice before showing symptoms?

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Weeks: Head lice can live up to 30 days on a human and heir eggs can live for more than 2 weeks, so that is why it is so hard to get rid of lice.  Symptoms can include intense itching of the scalp and visible lice and nets at the hair shaft.  Fortunately, although a nuisance, lice do not transmit infectious diseases.

Question 2

what are the symptoms of head lice?

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The symptoms of Head lice include::   Scalp itching, Enlarged lymph nodes.

Question 3

what are the symptoms of head lice like?

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Itching, or none: Many children have no symptoms whatsoever, despite a good-sized infestation.  Other children may have itching or a rash around the scalp.  The diagnosis is made by finding live lice and/or nits in the hair.  To check for lice, use a very fine-toothed comb to comb through wet hair section by section, looking for nits and adult lice.

Question 4

what symptoms do you have with crab lice?

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Itching and spots: Itching and a rash in your pubic area.

Question 5

if i had public lice of scabies, what sort of symptoms could i expect? would you have bites on hand and penis?

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Itching: Scabies shows up as tiny bites but the "bugs" are too small to see.  The bites can be anywhere on the body, including the back of the hand (not so much the palm) and the penis. With lice, you can see the tiny white bugs. They don't tend to produce visible bites. They are in the hair - scalp or pubic.

Question 6

tiny black specs (about the size of a grain of sand) fall of my pubic hair. i dont think its lice or some variant because there is no itching and i dont see anything moving down there. what can it be? (i never had any sexual intercourse?

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"black specs" ?'s: " Black specs" in your underwear, may still be scabies (lice), so see your physician for an exam and treatment.  Contact with the genital region of another individual may convey lice infections without actual "intercourse".

Question 7

how is head lice treated? what is the most reliable treatment for symptoms of head lice?

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Resource material.: This would require a lenghty answer. Please check this site: http://www.Mayoclinic.Com/health/head-lice/ds00953.

Question 8

what does a head lice infection feel like? how would i know what a head lice infestation feels like?  what are the symptoms?

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The : The typical clinical sign is an itchy scalp.  If you look at the scalp closely you might see "nits" (eggs) of the lice, they look like miniature pieces of rice clinging to the hair shafts.  If you suspect lice, you, and close family members should be evaluated and, if required, placed on the appropriate medications to eradicate them.  Home treatment is rarely effective.  You also need to be given instructions on how to clean your home, especially bed sheets, to prevent a recurrence.

Question 9

i'm suffer from allergy symptoms from the scalp does pubic lice cause this?

Accepted Answer

No...: If you have lice in you scalp, then you can blame them for being itchy.  Lice only in the pubic area will not affect your scalp at all.  You don't have to live with lice - treat today and you shouldn't have to worry about it any further.  The treatments can be a bit harsh on the skin, but in a few days (if you happened to get skin irritation) that should resolve.

Question 10

can lice look like dandruff flakes? they seem to be stuck to my hair shafts and in my eyebrows and eyelashes as well. i have had intense itching for a few months now, symptoms improve a bit when i use diluted tea tree or clove oil?

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: Please see your Md for proper diagnosis and management. dandruff is whitish tiny flakes and lice are small crab-like parasites.

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