A specie of super lice, which media call "mutant lice" is spreading through the United States and they pose huge danger despite their small size.
According to Marc Lame, a louse expert, clinical professor, and entomologist at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, super lice specie has been around for a long time now and they are just becoming more resistant to chemicals meant to kill them.
"The genes of animals, whether it's tiny bugs or bigger bugs or even humans, are hard-wired for survival. So the more exposure they have to something, the more they try to get around it," Lame said according to a report by USA Today.
Super lice have also spread around 25 states according to a study conducted by scientists from Southern Illinois University and the University of Massachusetts. The experts also predict that soon, this bugs will be everywhere and treatment methods using over-the-counter products will not be effective anymore.
So how can adults prevent kids from getting super lice which Kyong Yoon and his colleague John Clark of the University of Massachusetts is already in an alarming rate?
Dawn Fair, a school nurse with Wichita Schools said they are taking precautions by sending children home once they prove they got super lice. To completely get rid of them, they ask the kid to stay at home for up to 10 days.
"The nit will hatch within 8 to 10 days, so this process of re-checking your child's hair, once you've noticed that there's live bugs or nits there, the process of checking your child's hair is a daily process for a couple of weeks," she said in a report by WIBW.
"When they louse lays the nit, they use a glue-like substance, so it sticks to the hair shaft very, very strongly, so sometimes you have to pull with your fingernails or with a nit to remove that," she continued.
She also urged parents to educate kids by telling the real facts and not the myth just for the sake of scaring them.
"Educate them on those myths and tell them the truths about head lice, so they don't feel like they've done something wrong or that they're less of a human being because they have this now," Fair said
