After you've used medicine or any other number of head lice removal techniques, you'll need to check for nits (lice eggs). These can lay in wait for when you least expect them to hatch, and when they do, you'll quickly find your head of hair swarming with lice again. Therefore, it's imperative that you check for them on a regular basis (every few days) for two to three weeks. Just because you don't have any lice doesn't mean the threat is over, so you'll want to know how to perform head lice egg removal to ensure that no lice will ever hatch on your head again.

Nits, as previously mentioned, are lice eggs that hang onto your hair about half an inch away from your scalp, or even a little closer. If not taken care of, they will hatch and negate any progress that you might have made by applying medicine and killing all the adult lice on your scalp. This process can be time consuming, but it is necessary that you complete head lice nit removal if you wish to get rid of lice on your head once and for all.

Not Enough To Kill The Lice

You have to do more than just kill all the lice running around on your scalp. This is something that many people don't realize. They think that just washing the head with anti-lice medicine is enough to take care of the problem. However, head lice egg removal is entirely necessary to properly cure this condition. If your own head is the one with lice, you'll need to get a friend to help you complete this step. As a safeguard, it's recommended that you warm up a towel in the dryer for half an hour and then wrap it around your head for a few minutes. The heat should be enough to kill any leftover lice and all of the nits on your head. That way, if you miss any nits during the head lice egg removal, they will be dead and won't be able to hatch.

For proper head lice egg removal, you'll need to meticulously go through all your hair. Just like in school, the use of a tongue depressor can help you to systematically go through hair. It isn't very hard – it just takes a while, which some people don't realize. Also, many anti-lice medicine kits also include a handy comb in the package to help you comb through hair and remove the nits. By spending a little time and money to do head lice egg removal right, you can ensure that the lice won't ever come back.