is there a treatment for head lice?

Answer 1

Yes, please contact a physician and get a prescription shampoo. You will waste your time and money on over the counter medicine. Don't believe old wives tales and don't use kerosene. You will need a good strong prescription shampoo and a special comb to pick out the nits. Wash everything in hot water and detergent, the bedding, pillows, their clothes, their combs and brushes can be soaked in boiling water and soap. Teach your children not share combs, brushes, hats, headbands, etc. You can spray the couch to disinfect it (anywhere kids lay their heads). Be vigilant, you can do everything right, send them back to school and be reinfested. Above all don't feel alone, its not a sign of being unclean, in fact I've heard lice like clean heads best!

Answer 2

I own a company that produces an FDA registered head lice cure but I don't intend to try to sell you anything because you can help yourselves in this instance. I will copy below the advice we send to customers waiting for orders so they can make progress straight away. Curing head lice is a REMOVAL problem. If you remove everything that doesn't belong in your hair your head lice problem will end. It has to! I will also post a link below that explains why head lice appear to go away but comeback time after time. Once you have read this you will crack your problem. Here is the advice: " You can do a load of good work right now. Forget about killing head lice, just think--REMOVE If you have a fine comb and can locate some oil like sweet almond, from a health food store, or even sunflower from a food store you can do a lot of good right now by removing any larger lice that may be in the hair. Don't use Vaseline, kerosene or mineral oils they are awful to wash out and dangerous as they can catch fire! Just check before you start that the oil you have will dissolve in your regular family shampoo by rubbing bit of the oil on your fingers and then washing with the shampoo. Work a small amount of the oil into the roots of the hair while it is dry and then comb gently with the finest comb you can find. You will get out an amazing mixture of rubbish including big head lice and even some eggs. 10-15 minutes combing is fine. Just so long as you round up all the big fat adult lice. These are laying between 6 and 8 eggs, per day, and are creating tomorrow’s lice. These will come our very easily if you have them stuck in slippery oil. Shampoo out the excess oil and chill out for a couple of days then repeat the process. You are harmlessly removing the lice that can and will lay down more eggs so you have already started to eradicate this population. When you get your order switch to the NITMIX Wet Combing Aid and this will make the head lice even easier to get out. Don't be fooled by how simple and gently this is; it works! "

Answer 3

yeh, the old treatment we used on the farm when i was young goes like this: get your sister to help you or somebody. get you a ice pick and a little can of lighter fluid. Well, the rest should be obvious that you apply the ligher fluid and then light up on one side which drives the lice to the other side. then let your helper use the ice pick to finish off the ones that aren't burnt. Lordy!

Answer 4

At any drug store (Wallgreens etc.) or discount store (Target, Wal-Mart, K-Mart) you can find a product called RID. It is a shampoo that you use. There is also a spray you can use to kill the lice in carpets and such. It's important to treat your WHOLE HOUSE!! Bedding, stuffed animals, pillows, blankets, EVERYTHING must be washed or placed in placed in plastic bags until live bugs die (30 days I think).

Answer 5

You can buy an over the counter shampoo specially made for this purpose at your local pharmacy. Ask the pharmacist to recommend one.

Answer 6

Yes. . . a home remedy is to use mayonnaise... or you can go to the store and buy a product called Nix

Answer 7

skin so soft in your hair works well also. Drowns the little biters with oil.

Answer 8

hire some chimpanzes to pick them them out for u. lol