Bed linens: how to get rid of the misfortune

Pediculosis is a parasitic disease of the skin and hair. A person can have lice, whose types are divided into head, ward and pubic. Therefore, pediculosis can be dressed, head and pubic, as well as its mixed forms. Parasites for human consumption use human blood, and their eggs are glued to the hair (pubic and head) or laid in the folds of linen and clothing (louse bedding).

Head - it's an insect, having a size of 2 to 4 mm, light gray. Their habitat is the scalp, but eyelashes and eyebrows may be affected.

Pubic lice occupy the scalp, scrotum, upper thighs. In a very neglected stage they can pass to the back, armpits, chest, beard, eyelashes, eyebrows. Insects are densely attached to the base of the hair, and at the site of the bite a grayish-blue stain with a diameter of up to 10 mm is formed, and a strong itching occurs. Infection occurs mainly during sexual intercourse, possibly in a bath.

Louse lice (bed) are similar to the head, but larger, their length is 3-5 millimeters. They live on the human body, in bed linens in the folds of clothing. When infecting the most affected places where the skin comes into contact with seams and folds. The bites of this type of parasite cause severe itching and eruptions on the neck, in the lumbar region and underarms. Sometimes because of scratching, a secondary pyococcal infection appears, and the skin becomes a greyish dirty color.

There is an opinion that the disease occurs mainly in poorly-groomed people with low income. But this is not so. No one can insure against parasites, because insects are very prolific, and they just get infected.

If there were louse lice (bed), then get rid of them will help the following tips.

Since parasites live in human clothing, they crawl out onto the body only to profit. This type of lice is the most demanding, and prefers unsanitary conditions. They do not tolerate slippery and silk fabrics, their favorite places are the folds of cotton fabrics and clothes made of this material.

Usual washing from insects can not be got rid, for this purpose it is necessary to try very much. As soon as there were first signs that bed linens attacked the wardrobe, it is necessary to wash thoroughly with the help of laundry soap in hot water, and disinfect all clothing, underwear and bedding, and premises. To do this, you can use a 20% soap-kerosene emulsion. For the treatment of laundry will need about two liters of solution, for bedding - 4 liters. To withstand clothing in the emulsion is necessary for half an hour.

Also all the affected items of the wardrobe can be boiled or treated with steam, and then hang everything in a ventilated room (on the balcony) under the influence of sunlight and leave for a week. After drying, all the folds of things must be ironed with a hot iron.

The most effective way of destroying adults and their eggs (nits) is disinfecting treatment of bedding, linen and clothes and in the steam-and-aluminum chamber.

It is necessary to pay attention to the fact that bed linens do not tolerate the effects of milkweed, fern and tansy, so for prevention you can use perfume with a similar smell.

Of the folk remedies, you can use cranberry juice, which dissolves its nitric acid, dissolved to 4.5% vinegar, dust or tar soap, essential oils (lavender, tea tree).

When detecting parasites, measures to eliminate them must be applied immediately, because lice reproduce very quickly.

In order not to have to treat pediculosis, first of all you must follow the rules of individual hygiene. It should be weekly, at least twice change clothes and underwear, periodically wash the bed sets at high temperatures, and be sure to iron things.