Lice Removal

For many, the end of summer, and beginning of school, is the beginning of a battle against tiny, parasitic insects that live on people’s scalps (and sometimes on body hair) that live on human blood. These menaces are lice or louse. Their eggs, called nits, are attached to the base of the hair shaft. The nits hatch in approximately seven to ten days. Lice are spread through close contact, or on shared surfaces, such as bedding, hats, scarves, or combs and brushes.

The first thing to keep in mind in curing a lice infestation is that everyone in the household should be treated even if you see no lice or nits. All the surfaces in the house must be treated. Anything that cannot be washed in bleach and hot, hot water, should be vacuumed, enclosed in airtight plastic for three weeks, pillows and mattresses should be vacuumed, and enclosed in air tight plastic covers. Don’t forget about toys such as stuffed animals, they have to be put in a very hot dryer, and/or in a closed, airtight container (such as a sealed garbage bag) and vacuum cleaner bags should be taken out as soon as you are finished cleaning.

Home Remedies For Lice And Lice Removal:

Vinegar:

Hair brushes, barrettes, ponytail holders, combs, any styling tool, should be washed in vinegar, and placed in the freezer over night. Every last hair should be removed from these brushes. You can buy new ones, and bag these just to be safe. Use a lint roller daily on every surface heads could come into contact with, and immediately get the lint roller paper out of your house.

What seems to work best is a combination of treatments, done every day, for three weeks, until all lice and nits have had a chance to hatch and be killed. Nothing kills the nits, so to be sure that all have hatched and died, before they have a chance to reproduce, the treatment must continue until there is no chance a nit survived to hatch and reproduce.

Shampoo:

Every single day, there should be a treatment done. First, treat the hair with a head lice treatment shampoo, saturate the hair with tea tree oil conditioner, cover the hair with a plastic cap, such as a shower cap for a couple of hours, then use a bug buster comb (they are yellow, which attracts the lice) add more conditioner, a new cap to be worn to bed, then, in the morning, recomb, shampoo, and rinse.

Heat:

Head lice cannot live in extreme heat for more than a few minutes, so the hair should be completely dried with a blow dryer set on the hottest setting. The second day, wash hair in tea tree oil shampoo, condition, comb with the bug buster, put real mayonnaise, or a combination of 10 ml tea tree oil and 100 ml of olive oil, on the hair, cover with plastic, taped down, and then covered with a shower cap. The next morning, comb with bug buster again, and wash hair twice with Dawn dishwashing liquid, heat dry. The next few days, the hair should be shampooed every single day with Denorex extra strength, medicated shampoo, conditioned with tea tree oil conditioner, and combed with the bug buster. Each day after, the hair should be shampooed with alternating Denorex and tea tree oil shampoo, conditioned with tea tree oil conditioner, combed with the bug buster, and heat dried, even heat straightened, for three full weeks. Don’t forget to treat surface areas every day using a lint roller. Using hair spray, pony tails for long hair, and taking garlic supplements as a deterrent for future infestations.