Treatment And Precautions For Hair Lice

The Natural Way To Fight Hair Lice:
This is the best method to drive out lice from your hair instead of using shampoos and lotions as it is safe and has no side-effects. Using essential oils of sunflower, olive and and almond can stop head lice. Use a fine tooth comb to take out the lice. Natural remedies might take you time and effort but are not dangerous to your health. You head lice remedy can be natural, effective and pleasant, avoiding chemicals and pesticides. Treat hair lice with the right remedy so that it is prevented from coming back.

Steps To Treat Head Lice:

• Remove all the clothing.
• Apply lice killing medicine, with the label mentioning pediculosis. After treating the hair, do not wash it for 2-3 days.
• After the treatment, the treated person should wear clean clothes.
• If you find that after treatment, some lice are moving about but slower than before the treatment, do not do re-treatment. Take a fine tooth comb and comb out the dead as well as the live lice as sometimes it takes longer to kill lice than mentioned in the instructions.
• If you find after treatment, that the lice are alive and are moving about the same way, then it shows that the medicine applied is not working. Use another treatment.
• After treatment, remove nits from the hair with a nit comb, which is very fine. Use every 2-3 to clear the hair of nits.
• Re-treat hair in 7 days if lice are still present in the hair.
• Check the treated person for 2-3 weeks to make sure that all the lice have gone.

Treat The Household:

• Wash clothes and linen with hot water and if you are machine washing, wash in the hot water cycle and then dry on the hot cycle for at least 20 minutes.
• Seal all items which can’t be washed like stuff toys, clothing, comforters, etc. in a plastic bag for 2 weeks.
• Cry clean the clothes which cant be washed at home like hats, coats, scarves, etc.
• Wash combs and brushes with hot water and soap, or soak for 1 hour in rubbing alcohol or Dettol.
• Vacuum the whole house, every nook and corner and every piece of furniture.

Caution:

– Pregnant and breastfeeding women should not use hair lice medications.
– Do not overdo it with the lice killing medicine, use sufficient amount.
– Do not use lice killing medicine on the eyebrows or eyelashes.
– A person who suffers from allergies, asthma or other medical illness should consult a physician before using this medication.