Head Lice Home Remedies For You And Your Family

If you are facing the job of using head lice home remedies or other methods to get rid of lice in your home, take the job seriously and do it right

. If you are the one assigned the job of selecting the method or commercial head lice shampoo to get rid of hair lice, you may want to rethink whether you want to put those toxic chemicals on your child's head or not.

Even the well noted American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the Nix shampoo product as being the most effective treatment for hair lice but if you choose to use it, you are putting pesticides on you child's skin. Based on the way people commonly feel disgust when they learn about a problem with head lice, many parents just want to use the surest, quickest way they can think of to get rid of the nasty little insects. Many other parents, choose to take the healthy and safety of their children into consideration and look for more acceptable alternatives.

Certainly, you want to get rid of the lice and all their nits or eggs. If your child has allergies or even if you are just concerned about using chemicals on your child then you start looking for alternatives. Likely the simplest and most time tested of the head lice home remedies used to avoid the pesticides would be to use a fine lice comb and perhaps tweezers, and manually remove the lice and their eggs (called nits) from the hair. This combing is time consuming and needs to be done each day for at least two or three days. Even for those who use lice shampoo, the tedious process of carefully combing out the nits is still necessary.

Some people follow a common home remedy that has you put a substance like mayonnaise, Vaseline or Olive Oil all over the hair and left on for at least eight hours to smother lice to death. When you leave this greasy mess on overnight using a shower cap to keep the greasy stuff contained, then it is widely reported that this works very well. This is a messy process but many experts believe that part of the reason this works is because when going through the process of cleaning up the hair afterwards, it actually removes the bugs and the nits all at the same time. When using this method, it is usually helpful to rinse the hair with Vinegar. This helps dissolve any remaining grease that was used and this also makes it harder for any elusive eggs to stick to the strands of hair.

There is a non-pesticide treatment you may want to consider using. It is a medication named Ulesfia. You would need to ask your doctor about this because it does require a medical prescription. When using this product, the hair needs to be saturated and left on for ten minutes before being washed out. This product also needs to be applied again in seven days to kill any freshly hatched lice from nits that may have been left behind. It basically works by suffocating the living hatched lice.

There are other home remedies that have been reported to have worked to rid the hair of lice. These would include remedies made from herbs or spices or essential or aromatic oils. The most common of these is likely the tea tree oil remedy but these methods like other home methods are not regulated by the FDA and their effectiveness is not certain.

On the preventative side of things, do a little research and become familiar with how to identify adult lice, nymphs (young lice) and nits in the hair and do periodic inspections of young children, particularly if they have frequent interaction with other children. With a little knowledge and careful and regular inspections, you can usually avoid any unnecessary need to treat for lice. Take preventative measures to avoid the problem altogether.

If girls wear their hair up and if it has gel in it, these procedures reduce the chance for lice transfer from one child to another. Teach your children about lice. Lice are only transferred by direct contact from one person to another. They have no wings and do not have the ability to jump. Teach the children to try and minimize activities that cause direct contact with each other like climbing on or wrestling with one another. Kids should also avoid sharing hair brushes, hats, hair bows, helmets or any other item that might have direct contact with the hair or scalp of someone else. When your children take these preventative steps, the likelihood of another "attack" is brought to a minimum. Through education, awareness and good personal interaction habits, you are taking the best preventative steps to avoid having to deal with this lousy problem in the future.

Head Lice Home Remedies For You And Your Family

By: Don Ellis

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