Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Head lice, otherwise known as nits or kutis, is one of the most frustrating medical conditions parents have to face. It’s very common and often seen in school outbreaks.   What are head lice and who gets them?   They’re small insects found on the head. They live on hair and suck blood from the scalp.  They lay eggs on the hair – looking like little grains of sand stuck to hair.   Anyone can get them; it has nothing to do with poor hygiene. They do not carry disease.   Only humans can get them, and they’re spread through direct head contact. Often found on children who sleep together or play together. Often spread by school outbreaks.    They can’t live when not on the head and die quickly.      How do you know you have them?   Sometimes can see live insects moving on the scalp.   Nits, headlice eggs look like small grains of sand stuck to hair that can’t be brushed out: often found around the ears and back of the neck.   Intense itch sometime