Body Lice Infestation (Pediculosis Corporis): Therapy

General measures

  • Adherence to personal hygiene
  • Daily change of clothes
  • Clothing, bed linen, towels, etc. should be washed at 60 ° C.
  • Laundry that can not be washed at 60 ° C should be for at least four weeks in a plastic bag (starvation), for 24 hours packed in a plastic bag in the freezer (freezing) or for about one hour by supplying dry heat of 60-65 ° C heated.
  • Heavily infested with lice clothing etc must be burned.
  • Second hand laundry should be washed before wearing for the first time.
  • If there is a heavy infestation of clothes lice, the accommodation must be cleaned by a pest control company.