Is vinegar a cure for head lice, or does it help?

Answer 1

Vinegar and warm water poured over the hair help loosen the glue holding the eggs onto the hair. The vinegarman website has step-by-step instructions on how to get rid of them and how vinegar helps with the removal of the lice.

Answer 2

Honestly, I do not know about vinegar but I have heard that using kerosene will definitely help. Scrub scalp with it and wrap it with a wet towel for 2 hours, unwrapped it and get ready for a nice fragrant shampoo but I remember you will have to shampoo your hair at least twice a day for 3 days before the smell of kerosene is being washed away.
But I suggest, you can try out others first and use this formula as the last resort as having the kerosene smell is really hard to accept. Good luck!!

Answer 3

no vinegar is not a cure and it does not help also. but it is a very good conditioner for hair. apply vinegar before shampooing on oiled hair, this will give your hair a very nice shine..water boiled with neem leaves cures lice.

Answer 4

I have some useful information about lice. First, to anyone who has been struggling with lice for months and years: my family physician, Dr P Feldman, reported that her family had been trying for some time to get rid of their lice infestation. They finally discovered that they had lice living in an old mattress. Lice can lay eggs not just on hair, but on other fibres as well. Replacing a mattress or getting a plastic cover for it (very airtight) can be an essential part of treatment. This can apply to wool or other fibrous blankets as well, which should be bagged until the the lice is 100% gone, for a minimum of three weeks. The bag must be very airtight. Lice need air to survive.

Hairbrushes need only be washed with vinegar and placed in the freezer overnight. Every single last hair must be removed from the hairbrush so use the kind with single plastic prongs, or a large - toothed comb during the lice period.

Secondly, the only truly effective treatment for lice is manual removal of lice and nits, which is best accomplished of course by cutting hair very, very short. The woman who has had lice for three years is probably getting re-infected. She should go for hair cropping and manual removal (pay someone if necessary), and make sure possible sources in her house are not causing a reinfestation. Spraying a house with pesticides is neither effective nor necessary, and it's extremely harmful to children. A lint roller will do for any non-fibrous substance such as cotton sheets (it picks up stray fibres that could have nits attached to them, and stray lice) and bagging is sufficient for fibrous materials.

Finally: where hair is very thick and for emotional reasons cannot be cut, manual removal of nits is nearly hopeless. If you overlook just two nits and they happen to be housing a male and a female, the cycle will repeat itself. One has to keep in mind that lice cannot lay eggs in the first seven or eight days of their lives, and it takes eggs up to 12 days to hatch.

Thus one must attempt to KILL THE LICE EVERY DAY FOR AT LEAST 12 DAYS (16 to be on the safe side). Nix will not kill lice, unfortunately. I saw a louse alive and well crawling through my daughter's hair after a Nix treatment. What seems to work best is a combination of treatments for ten days, with a different one each day, and daily lint rolling of all surfaces which the head may touch. Thus one can do something like this:

Day One: Pronto (effective but very toxic and with thick hair it's hard to get it everywhere).

Day Two: mayonnaise overnight (with three TIGHT plastic bags taped to the head, covered by a showercap, which is held by an elastic band).

Day Three, Four and Five:tar shampoo such as Denorex Extra Strength.

Day Six: tea-tree shampoo. Repeat cycle. One of the days can include dyeing of the hair, for anyone in the household who is over 16.

This assault should weaken and eventually kill all the lice. It must be done every single day to prevent the lice that are mature from laying eggs. This round of treatment should work, if nothing in the house (or at school) is reinfecting your family. But again, the best remedy is to shave hair (for boys) and cut it very short for manual nit picking (for girls). Hair grows back.


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I had been researching remedies for those pesty little head lice and came across your site. I gave Denorex shampoo a try, and WOW! It works like a charm!

Like other users who commented on its effects, I was happy to find dead lice in the tub, knowing they were no longer on my head. I haven't had trouble since. I believe it would be a wise and profitable decision for Denorex to advertise their shampoo as a lice killer as well; with the billions of people who have lice, they'd make millions! Can you tell how overjoyed I am that I needn't to worry about any critters on my head?

Answer 5

I would use olive oil to suffocate them (I have seen it work. it clogs their airholes..) asnd some tea tree oil(you can get it at wal mart for about 5 bucks) to deter them..also add some tea tree to your shampoo. coat your hair and scalp w/ the combo of olive oil and tea tree and swrap hair in plastic..sleep in it or let it on for 8 hrs..use a nit comb to remove eggs and dead adults repeat every couple days.perfectly safe and effective!
alot of lice are becoming resitant to the chemical forms of killing them

Answer 6

yes it loosens the eggs if you pour neat vinegar over the head and then comb thru with a nit comb this gets rid of them it is no myth believe me

Answer 7

I have never heard that one but have used nit combes and heard with regular washing and lots of conditioner you can comb out the nits while the hair is wet with conditioner the nits can not grip

Answer 8

Not even napalm is a cure for headlice. Just a nit comb and patience.

Answer 9

ya i think it does only a small bit but tea tree oil is great so add a bit into your ordinary shampoo which is cheaper and this does work and doesnt leave a bad odour

Answer 10

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