Is it normal to get nits and head lice as a female adult?

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My hairdresser found thousands of lice eggs (the eggs are called nits) in my hair so she kicked me out of the salon. I have no idea where I caught them from as I don't have young children. I did the head lice treatment, used the lice comb until no more came out, and washed my bedclothes but they came back a few weeks later. I've done the treatment again. Will they ever leave? Thank God my partner is bald.

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  • mysterymen3000
    11 years ago

    You don't have to be a kid to get lice duh. Educate yoself before you make a fool of yoself

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      No kidding. Children's hair and adult's hair is made of the same stuff - keratin. It's a protein. So of course the lice/nits are going to like both environments. However, the incidence of nits in children is much higher than in adults. Didn't you know that? It's mainly because children attend school and play boisterous physical games. Adults are less social and more sedentary. It's amazing how many people don't have the first clue when it comes to the transmission of disease. Do you think you can catch AIDS from taking a drag on someone's cigarette? Perhaps you're too foolish to know you're a fool.

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  • Ipooprainbows
    11 years ago

    well if you haven't had it before then its normal because I think everyone gets it at some stage in their life wheather its in the early stages or later stages.

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    • kelili
      11 years ago

      Not everyone gets it. It's not like small pox. Make some researches.

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      • VioletTrees
        11 years ago

        You're thinking of chicken pox, not smallpox. If everybody got smallpox at some point, it would be a Problem.

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        • kelili
          11 years ago

          What I mean is that it is not a virus or a bacteria.

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      • Ipooprainbows
        11 years ago

        woops, thought so...was just saying because I thought I was right but obviously not

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  • Tazwiz
    11 years ago

    Don't bother with the treatments you can buy from shops just put loads of conditioner in your hair and use a nit comb until u can't find anymore then wash your hair normally preferably with tea tree! Repeat this every other day until your not finding any then once a week as a precaution for a while! An it's normal sadly!

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    I really hate that head lice soap.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    neem oil works and is natural, but it stinks

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    Have you shared things with people like their hats or combs? How frequently do you wash your hair? Etc.

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  • Moonbow
    11 years ago

    You have to be exposed to lice in order to have lice and nits in your hair. I've heard of kids in school today having lice, but when I was in school, many years ago, no one ever had lice because I attended a small, community school, not one of the huge consolidated conglomorates children attend today with kids from all over creation and from all sorts of backgrounds.

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  • malkiot
    11 years ago

    There are shampoos for head lice. They contain pesticides which kill the critters.

    See if you can obtain these:

    Infectopedicul (Pyrethroid Permethrin)
    InfectoPedicul Malathion (Organophosphate Malathion)
    Jacutin N Spray

    There are probably others, but these are the ones I know of.

    Use those, comb your hair, dry and repeat this a few days to a week later. It should kill everything.

    I got headlice from my classmates one or two times back in school *sigh* and it worked like a charm.

    Also try changing your bedsheets, cleaning all of your clothes / rugs etc. There might be lice in/on those by now.

    It's also recommended that all people you are commonly in contact with check themselves for head lice and do the same, as normally 6 weeks pass before they are even detected.

    There are also tablets (Ivermectin) and 'physical' products containing Dimeticones. If your doctors don't know that, then they really are crap.

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  • Mando
    11 years ago

    Maybe you got it at that shitty hair salon.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    I do not know what to tell you but you should go get it check out. I hope everything works out for you.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      I asked two different doctors to check me out because of all the itching and neither found anything. Two weeks later, after nearly going insane from the itching, the hairdresser solved the riddle.

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        Okay I am happy for you.

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      • shuggy-chan
        11 years ago

        you could had gotten it from anywhere that a kid or bum or someone was that had them. i got them ase a kid and i had long hair, but i had to get it cut short

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        • [Old Memory]
          11 years ago

          Except that bums are dirty, nits and head lice survive in clean hair.

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          • VioletTrees
            11 years ago

            That's actually a myth. Lice don't prefer clean hair.

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            • [Old Memory]
              11 years ago

              That is no myth lol. They can live in dirty hair but they tend not to because it is easier for them to move around an lay their eggs when the hair is clean.

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