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Basics
Description
Description
- Infestation by organisms that live in close association with host
- Bites are painless
- Signs and symptoms result from host response to saliva and anticoagulant injected during feeding
- Transmitted by direct contact and fomites (inanimate objects)
- Head lice are transmitted by head-to-head contact:
- Combs
- Pillows
- Hats
- Head lice are more common in children and females
- Pubic lice are transmitted by sexual contact
- Obligate human parasites cannot survive away from hosts >7–10 days
Etiology
Infestation by:Etiology
- Pediculus capitis (head louse):
- Most common
- All socioeconomic groups
- Pediculus corporis (body louse):
- Associated with poverty, poor hygiene, and overcrowding
- Live in clothing and transfer to human host for feeding
- Can live up to 30 days off of human
- Related to bed bugs
- Phthirus pubis (pubic or crab louse)
Pediatric Considerations
Pubic lice may also indicate sexual abuse in children
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Basics
Description
Description
- Infestation by organisms that live in close association with host
- Bites are painless
- Signs and symptoms result from host response to saliva and anticoagulant injected during feeding
- Transmitted by direct contact and fomites (inanimate objects)
- Head lice are transmitted by head-to-head contact:
- Combs
- Pillows
- Hats
- Head lice are more common in children and females
- Pubic lice are transmitted by sexual contact
- Obligate human parasites cannot survive away from hosts >7–10 days
Etiology
Infestation by:Etiology
- Pediculus capitis (head louse):
- Most common
- All socioeconomic groups
- Pediculus corporis (body louse):
- Associated with poverty, poor hygiene, and overcrowding
- Live in clothing and transfer to human host for feeding
- Can live up to 30 days off of human
- Related to bed bugs
- Phthirus pubis (pubic or crab louse)
Pediatric Considerations
Pubic lice may also indicate sexual abuse in children
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Citation
Rosen, Peter, et al., editors. "Pediculosis." 5-Minute Emergency Consult, 5th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2016. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/5-Minute_Emergency_Consult/307451/all/Pediculosis.
Pediculosis. In: Rosen P, Shayne P, Barkin AZ, et al, eds. 5-Minute Emergency Consult. 5th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2016. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/5-Minute_Emergency_Consult/307451/all/Pediculosis. Accessed January 24, 2020.
Pediculosis. (2016). In Rosen, P., Shayne, P., Barkin, A. Z., Wolfe, R. E., Hayden, S. R., Barkin, R. M., & Schaider, J. J. (Eds.), 5-Minute Emergency Consult. Available from https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/5-Minute_Emergency_Consult/307451/all/Pediculosis
Pediculosis [Internet]. In: Rosen P, Shayne P, Barkin AZ, Wolfe RE, Hayden SR, Barkin RM, Schaider JJ, editors. 5-Minute Emergency Consult. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2016. [cited 2020 January 24]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/5-Minute_Emergency_Consult/307451/all/Pediculosis.
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