Latest Medical Insanity: Insecticide for Your Head

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Don Fletcher — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:31:04 GMT

Have you heard of gardeners using insecticidal soap? Well, soap works against lice too. One lathers up and leaves the lather on for hours and the insects die, but not the eggs.

One repeats the same process every day and over a period of 2 weeks the last eggs are all hatched and gone. One speeds up the process by using the nit comb to remove eggs, but nit combs always miss some that are deposited deep into a follicle. For them the soap works. Soap foam may function by cutting off air supply, but one observes that fleas exposed to soap dry up after falling off. Part of the effect may be because the insect is no longer able to retain moisture.

In my childhood, the late 1940s early 1950s the smell of lifeboy soap would fill the whole school as we all took to washing our hair at the same time, leaving the foam on the scalp for the whole afternoon. The brand of soap was not significant. It was cheap and effective.

Once the infestation was gone from the school, we would comb the hair with linseed oil, not the expensive cold pressed oil, just the stuff painters used. We then combed repeatedly to keep any eggs out of the hair. The oil made eggs slip off the hair, but it may also have been hard on any adults.

Today I expect that we might use head and shoulders with xinc pyrethrin, again foam left on the hair for hours. It works much the way our soap foam would have worked, but costs more so it must be better. Use of oil to get the eggs to slip off would still be needed, if only because kids complain so much when eggs are jerked off without oil.

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Marissa_Carter — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:47:36 GMT

when my younger sisters had head lice several years ago, we found that olive oil and a nit comb worked much better than the chemical treatments.

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hugboysmum — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:31:18 GMT

I live in Australia my older son brought home a notice from school saying there was several cases of lice detected and that all children should be treated as a precaution. Not knowing any better at the time I did so and he had an alergic reaction. The doctor told me to use a different preparation for the follow up treatment, which I did and he had a similar reaction. When I told this to a friend of mine she told me that she used a certain shampoo that has no nasty chemicals (principally SLS) and whenever there is a lice scare she uses a nit comb and puts a little tea tree or eucalytus oil in the shampoo and it works everytime. Since then my kids have never had lice, nits etc. When I tried to bring up the sollution at the Parents and Citizens Association meeting the principal told me that the school could not recommend any treatment that wasn't endorsed (by whom?) so it wasn't published in the newsletter. Didn't stop me telling as many people as I could though and I am still telling people.

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4chilesa — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:03:54 GMT

We live in Chile, South America and have 12 children so have had more than our share of lice problems. Last year it seemed that nothing worked so out of desperation I began rinsing our children's heads with just regular vinegar and leaving it on. After several days of this we had no more lice! Now I rinse their heads with the vinegar and leave it on for a couple of minutes and then rinse it off. This is the first year that we have had NO lice! Vinegar makes a wonderful rinse and leaves the hair shiny and tangle free.

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Victor Anaya — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:39:19 GMT

There is another treatment that I used, pure Tea Tree Oil. Once a week for 4 weeks I saturated head and hair in the evening, showered the next morning and I ended a long time infestation in my whole family that wouldn't respond to any conventional medication.

And my daughters have very long, beautiful hair. It seemed to also have the added benifit of strengthening and conditioning the hair and scalp.

I have since found this oil to be a very effective repellent for any "creapy crawly." I've used a diluted form on my dogs for fleas.

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rajsanand — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:19:15 GMT

I still remember we would use these poisons as kids. My mom was careful though, she only made us use an anti-lice lotion only once, then we moved on to "mediker" an shampoo. The final thing that did the trick though very unconvetional. Was kerosene.

Yes kerosene the one which you use in lighter and stoves. You do not apply it to the scalp, but adults can. You have to dip a towel in kerosene and wrap it around your head and try to see the the fumes dont get into your eyes.

I really dont know how safe this treatment is but I am sure it would be safer than this poison.

Now I have another theory for lice I dont know if it would work, but someone with better knowledge can let me know and Dr. Mercola could even put it on his website.

I feel that Lice need to breath right. So if you put them in liquid then they would not be able to breath and die right. So why not sumberge your scalp in water for half an hour. I think the lice may float to the top. You could even submerge your head in oil or a mixture of essentail oils.

I have seen an ayurvedic treathment where they place the head in a specially descinge bowl/basin which contains oil. The entire head is submerged only leaving the face above and then oil is poured continously on the forehead.

I feel that to be completely submerged one could use a scuba diver kind of apparatus to be able to breath under water/oil.

There is reason why anise oil and other oil remove lice but only to 92%. I think if the entire head is submerged then it will be 100% effective in 1 sitting.

The ofcourse we will have use a nit comb to get rid of the nits.

Because lice have to breath so lets drown them.

I fee that submerging your head in a bathtub full of water should also drown them.

I think that short hair would be useful as the lice might not be able to hide in the hair(but still I dont think there could be pockets of air in long hair. Maybe combing it underwater once could do the trick.

What say anyone is this good enough to be a treatment.

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bw — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:02:16 GMT

Lice spread from my Daughter to my Wife and she used Mayo on both of them... it worked great. One additional foot note was the fact her hair was very soft as well, following the Mayo Treatment.

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Shar bear — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:51:27 GMT

I used this Lindane before I knew better on my daughter. I wonder if it had to do with why she got Chronic Fatigue years later. What is the best way to detoxify from using Lindane?

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trishaspring50 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:44:41 GMT

35 Countries have taken a stance on no chemical poisons for head lice. Why can't the USA and the FDA pull all of them off the market.

There is a grassroots organization in the US trying to take Pyrethines ect down. Its founded by a woman

named Deborah Auschuller, website www.headlice.org

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jupiter2 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:35:58 GMT

I recently read an excellent book entitled "The Vitamin Murders: Who Killed Healthy Eating in Britain" by James Fergusson. This is a factual thriller based on the real-life murder of a British nutrition expert and his family whilst on "holiday" in France. It explains what has happened to our food supplies and the exploitation of farmers and the public by way of the chemical food sprays which everyone believed was going to improve our lot. It also mentions absolutely dozens of alternative names for Lindane and all the other chemicals contained in our food and our everyday shampoos, creams, toothpastes, etc. I checked the Amazon.com site and it didn't appear to be available there, but it is on the Amazon.co.uk. I know I am digressing from the subject of hair lice, but our general health and the way we are being used is of the greatest importance to mankind. I hope you enjoy it if you decide to buy.

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saxetrider — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:33:26 GMT

In Nov. 2007 my daughter came home with head lice. We used the www.nuvoforheadlice.com method of treatment. For this you use Cetaphil cleanser, a very gentle skin cleansing lotion. You "glop" it on the hair and work it in very thoroughly, then comb out the excess with a fine tooth comb or the nit comb. Use a towel to clean the comb between strokes. Then dry the hair with a hair dryer and leave the cleanser in for 8 hours. Then wash as usual. This is much better than olive oil or mayo because it is easy to wash out. You must repeat the treatment after 7 days, and again 7 days after that. The website explains the timing, which is due to the life cycle of the head lice. I believe the Harvard website mentioned above also tells about the life cycle. You will also need to put sheets and towels etc. thru the hot dryer to get rid of any there. I also treated myself as a just in case measure, even though I never found any on my head. It's easy, it's inexpensive, and IT'S NONTOXIC! This was the treatment recommended by our doctor's office, although they were a little sketchy on the details and the web site is better for that.

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GoHealthy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:55:25 GMT

My mom ALWAYS rinsed our hair with vinegar after shampooing and we NEVER had head lice. Maybe that's what stopped it???? Anyone else had this experience? Thanks.

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taximama6hotmail — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:42:21 GMT

THE BEST treatment for head lice is called "Lice RX", it is from a business located in Idaho. I have used it 3 times over a period of 6 years. It was 100 percent effective every time. It is an all natural mixture of herbs, lavender, castor oil, and some other all-natural -harmless-to-humans ingredients. I called and talked to the manufacturer and he said that Lice RX was so safe that when you were done spreading it onto your kids hair, to go ahead and rub the rest of it into your hands because it also was a soothing hand lotion! I have 7 children, it worked on short boys hair, toddlers hair, long girl hair, and pregnant mom's hair. My family contracted it all 3 times from little friends that came over to play--all 3 of them were Daycare kids. If your kids play with children who are in Daycare, check their hair before you let them in your house! Go to: www.licerx.com ~Mama H~

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potential2themax — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:17:23 GMT

"Theraputic-grade" Essential Oils....that will do it (hopefully you know where to find these...but they're not found in stores)!

I became aware that these are the MOST POWERFUL substances on Earth - period! They do it all, since they are the life force in plants....herbs are dried plants, thus life force lost.

Interesting how they are the natural chemistry put on Earth for us. But theraputic-grade only.

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curious7 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:06:55 GMT

Oh just get a Michael Jordan, and be done with it.