This year the number of people affected by head lice broken all records. It has parasitologen Johan Lindh arrived at.
Do you think it has been scratching a little extra on the scalp in years? It can also be done. For this year the number affected by lice once again risen.
– Now it’s basically an all time high, says Johan Lind is parasitolog at Uppsala University.
He researches among otherwise these small svartbrunagråröda insects that live in our scalps and eat of our blood. The head louse is between two and three millimeters in length and spread from head to head.
lice gone on more and more people this year than in the past is a conclusion that John Lindh draws by reading the number of searches among second word louse on Google and Vårdguiden.se.
– Then about three years ago, it looks like the number of people in Sweden who gets lice increases, he says.
Over 100,000 people affected each year by head lice. Most commonly it is among children, especially girls. They usually show up on order around the school lately.
– The itchy, it did not feel good, says Stina Persson, who is seven years old and recently had his first lussmitta.
Although the Stina Persson has older siblings, so this was a first time experience for mother Lena Persson.
– I had never seen a louse before I found them on her. Before this, I thought it was disgusting, but it’s not. It was just to shampoo then they were gone, she said.
What is causing the increase in
– Unfortunately, we do not know really, but it depends on different things. One factor is that we are bad at talking about it, to tell you in school, says researcher Johan Lindh.
Is head lice a problem
– It’s not dangerous, but it can become very difficult socially because there are still old flawed anecdotes that it’s just dirty and poor who have lice. And it’s probably unfortunately a reason that parents do not tell at school, for one am a little ashamed, says parasitologen Johan Lindh.
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