Recognize that your child has lice

The lice are small parasitic insects that usually live on the scalp where they hide among the hair, feed on blood, lay their eggs and repeatedly cause much itching. These insects are very common during the years of kindergarten and early school years.

You will realize head lice when they call your child's day care or school to give you the bad news, or you may notice that your child frequently scratching or rubbing your scalp, especially in the back of the head and around the ears.

But lice do not always cause itching, especially at the beginning, so the first sign that you have are the eggs of these insects, called nits in your hair. Nits are very small and a pearly white, also tend to remain firmly attached to the hair, not like dirt or pieces of skin off easily.

The most common way in which these insects are spread is through a brother or a friend who has lice. These insects just walk, so they can not jump or fly, so traveling from one head to another by direct contact. Off the scalp lice can live for a day or two and can go through pillows or hats.

It's a myth that lice are the result of poor hygiene or poverty because these insects are very egalitarian and can occur even in the largest class communities.