How to get rid of lice underwear

Linen lice - this is, to put it simply, a special kind of head lice, the very ones that almost every child at least once in their life brought on their heads from school or kindergarten. At the same time, the laundry lice (scientists call them still worn) do not live on the head, but are adapted to constant life on a person’s clothes. Therefore, in order to get rid of underwear lice, it is necessary to use slightly different methods, rather than when dealing with head lice.

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Linen louse is a product of human civilization. Despite the fact that body lice interbreed with the head and are simply a form of the same species, they are rapidly evolving into a new species, and the reason for this evolution is just man. Even the adaptation of these parasites to individual types of tissue is evolutionarily determined by human behavior - for example,Louses do not settle on woolen clothes, because people do not wear such clothes directly on their bodies.

In the photo below - a clothes louse in an adult form:

Larvae of lice lice look almost the same as adults, but are smaller.

Linen lice are human parasites; they feed exclusively on human blood and cannot parasitize other animals. At the same time, the linen louse cannot do without food for a long time — longer than several days — and therefore she always lives in close proximity to her master's body. Therefore, one of the effective ways of getting rid of lice underwear is based on the hunger strike of the parasites: if you do not wear clothes infected with lice for about 7 days, then the laundry lice in it will die of starvation.

Those people who have an extensive wardrobe and rarely wear the same underwear are protected reliably from underwear lice. Even if the parasite gets on the clothes in this case, it dies of hunger until the owner puts the clothes on again.

From the foregoing, it becomes clear why laundry lice are almost always found on vagabonds, vagrants, prisoners, and simply declassed elements who usually wear the same clothes without removing them for several months.Lice infestation usually occurs from them and the items they use.

In this dependence of the parasites on the proximity of the human body is just one of the ways how to get rid of laundry lice.

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Lice avoid settling on silk clothes, smooth and creaking. Optimal substrates for them - flax and cotton. In the photo below - lice on ordinary cotton fabric.

 

Measures to combat linen lice

Effective and fast control of linen lice is almost always based on poisoning them. However, even before getting rid of underwear lice, you must remove all your clothes and thoroughly wash your body with special shampoos - for example, Medifox, NOC, Bubil, Lauri, Veda-2. This will be the initial guarantee that the body of living insects will not remain.

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“In 2012, I worked as a volunteer at a citizens’ heating station in Odessa. I admit: 90% of the public at these points are typical bums and drug addicts. Only sometimes local retirees or employees of nearby collection sites came to visit us. On the second day, we sounded the alarm: a shower was installed on the point, and when the whole guard went to wash in turns ... In general, it’s impossible to look at their things with nervous eyes.The head of the station contacted the sanitary epidemiological station, and from there the next day brought several blocks of soap from the lice and NOC funds. After that, I bought myself one package of NOK, since it is a very powerful agent for laundry lice, so that if something happens at home, I can process myself and quickly remove the laundry lice. But it carried by, did not get infected, and the guests themselves had to literally select the clothes in order to boil them with this soap! ”

Oksana, Nikolaev

After bathing, you can proceed to the treatment of lice clothes:

• It is enough to boil all the things in any dish for 15-20 minutes. For reliability, you can add Malathion or insecticidal insect repellent containing Permethrin.
• If only one item of the toilet is infected or there is only a concern about infection, you can safely hang clothes in the open air, preferably in the sun, and not take them off for a week. During this time, the lice die of hunger, and then the laundry will simply suffice to wash.
• In especially neglected cases, clothing is treated in steam-formalin chambers to eliminate any lice.Typically, these cameras are used by second-hand wholesale dealers, and for ordinary users it is easier (and cheaper) to turn to dry cleaning.

Below the photo shows a few tools to get rid of underwear lice:

In general, it is easier to deal with laundry lice than with other types of parasites. At least in this case it is not necessary to get rid of parasites on the scalp. But in some cases, and body lice cause a sea of ​​inconvenience.

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“We had trouble with lice in the theater. For one performance, a local huckster was invited, who, like two drops of water, looked like Newton. Like and washed him, they took him out of the bout for a few days, and after he had once dressed the costume of the Renaissance, everyone started to itch. It turned out that it was lice. They refused to take dry props, we had to take them home, wash them with Karbofos (there is such material that they cannot cook), and the artists do hygiene at home with special lice shampoos. ”

Olga Vasilievna, Pyatigorsk

 

Means for processing bed and clothes for lice

The most famous and reliable folk remedy for lice, including underwear, used to be kerosene - you can soak the laundry in it, you can boil it, and the lice will die. However, then getting rid of the smell of kerosene on clothes will not be easy. Therefore, today they more often resort to a simpler and more modern method - before simple washing, clothes are treated with anti-pediculosis preparations.

Lice are usually treated with the following products:

• Medfox is a fairly well-known and popular lice medicine based on permethrin, a strong insecticide that is relatively safe for humans.
• NOC - Medifox analogue, contains the same toxic substance.
• Bubil - shampoo to get rid of head lice, works well with body lice.
• Pedilin, in efficiency somewhat inferior to Medifox, but also less expensive.

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We once poisoned lice with Medifox when the fellow brought them from the kindergarten. Another time I picked it up at school, but we haven’t found Medifox. Bought Pedilin, he was at times weaker. I had to wash for two or three times, until all the lice are gone.

Alexander, Tver

Underwear lice can also be removed using Karbofos or Mikrofos - known insecticidal drugs.Processing of linen by them may seem expensive, but will almost always be effective - both drugs are highly targeted nerve agents with insecticides.

Vinegar, turpentine, thick decoctions of tansy and tar soap are also often used in folk lice control. Cranberry juice is very effective against nits.

 

Know the enemy in the face: how not to confuse lice with other parasites?

It is also very important not to confuse lice with other parasites, which can sometimes be found on clothes. Linen louses differ from other competitors for our blood in some characteristic features:

• Lice differ from bugs in small size and light body. At the same time, the small larvae of bedbugs resemble lice, but are rarely found on clothes and underwear - they are more often found under mattresses and beds (see photo):

• Fleas, unlike lice, jump very fast and far. In addition, fleas bite mainly on the open areas of the body, and lice - just under the clothes.
• With small ticks, lice can be confused only when their legs are not counted. Ticks have paws 8, and lice have only 6. In the photo below is a typical ixodic tick.

And here is a photo of a linen louse:

Sometimes lice are confused with scabies.However, the itch mite is indistinguishable with the naked eye and does not leave bites on the body - it lives under the skin.

The lice bites themselves are very similar to those of bedbugs and fleas, but they almost never line up in the “chains” characteristic of the last parasites. Treatment of lice bites consists of treating them with antiseptic preparations and the use of antihistamines for the prevention of allergies.

In any case, it is always easier and safer to avoid lice infection initially than to think about how to get rid of them. To prevent infection, it is necessary to avoid asocial public, places where marginal elements accumulate, and rooms with unsanitary conditions. Hand-worn clothing should always be washed at the highest possible temperature. With such preventive measures, the risk of lice infestation will be minimal.

 

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