Pubic lice

Second application. How many days apart?

Told to repeat it but I have lost the leaflet and I cannot remember the interval.

spare_room 3 months ago

NoteMember experience, not medical advice. Symptoms overlap between infections and only a test can tell them apart.

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northwindow 3 months ago

Ask a pharmacist, because the interval depends on the product and getting it wrong wastes the second dose.

The principle is the same across all of them: the second application targets lice that hatched from eggs the first one did not kill, so it is timed to fall after hatching and before the new lice can lay.

wool_coat 3 months ago

Too early and you kill nothing new. Too late and they have already laid. It is one of the few places in this where the exact day genuinely matters.

ninth_street 3 months ago

Write it on a calendar now. Missing the second application is the single most common reason people end up here saying the treatment failed.

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