Treatment of lice

Lice

Lice are a type of insect that lives on scalp blood, which is frequent in school students because of their close proximity to each other and their personal involvement. They are a small insect that is white when hatched from the lice (eggs of lice), but its color begins to change to brown when it begins to feed on Blood scalp. It is known that the infection of lice fast infection from one person to another, so you must treat lice completely when it appears.

Causes of lice

Direct contact is one of the main causes of lice, whether contact with a person with lice by playing or sporting activities, or using clothes, hair ties, towels, and combs from a person with lice. Lying on the beds, sofas, pillows and carpets of the affected person may be a cause of infection.

Symptoms of lice

Scarring is one of the most obvious symptoms, but it alone is not a definitive indication of a child’s lice. The only way to check for lice is to find the parasite in the scalp and hair, especially in the back of the neck or behind the ear. This insect is gray in color and has six legs to hold hair.

Prevention of lice

The most common methods of spreading head lice are direct contact with the infected person (from hair to hair). However, there are other ways in which the disease can spread, such as clothing or property containing lice and lice.

Here are steps you can take to help control the spread of head lice:

Avoid sports activities where participants have direct contact while playing, both at home and at school.
Do not share hats, clothes, hair ties, or hair clasps.
Do not share combs, brushes, or towels used by the infected person until they are soaked in hot water for 5-10 minutes. Non-lying on the beds, sofas, pillows, and carpets that are considered to belong to the injured person.

Warning : Do not use sprayers used to kill insects at home, they are not necessarily able to control the head lice, and can be toxic in the case of inhalation or absorption by the skin.

There are many methods that can be used to treat lice, which range from natural remedies to treatments by drugs that are found in different forms of pharmaceuticals such as lindane and malathion.

Treatment of lice by pharmaceuticals

These are two types of preparations: one is spent as a medical, and one does not require a prescription:

Non-prescription preparations: pyrethrin and permethrin (commercial nix *): It is possible to kill only live lice, not eggs that have not been hatched. This type of treatment is not used for children under two years of age .
Prescription preparations: Ivermectin lotion, available in commercial name (Sklice *): Not used for children under six months, and use as best as possible in dry hair and not wet.
The Malathion lotion, which is available in commercial name (Ovide *): There are many warnings to be taken into consideration when using this product, the most important to stay away from any source of heat, such as heat dryer, because it is flammable, so it must be left dry naturally.
Lindane shampoo: It is used only if all previous methods fail and is prevented by pregnant or breastfeeding women, neonates, epilepsy patients and HIV patients.

Treatment of herbal lice and natural lotions

Wash the hair with olive oil, kas and black vinegar mixture. Leave the mixture on the head for 2 hours, comb the hair with the lice comb and then bathe with lice.
Almond oil or olive oil: the patient to moisten the hair with a layer of almond oil or olive oil and leave for several minutes, then pass the comb with hot water on the hair, and then wash hair shampoo twice. This exercise is repeated daily for a week.
Garlic and lemon juice: Because the garlic smells strong and it is possible to choke lice. This method is used weekly for two months.

How to use: Grind eight to ten cloves of garlic and mix them with two or three teaspoons of lemon juice, apply this mixture on the scalp for at least half an hour before rinsing the hair with warm water.

Baby oil and white vinegar: Baby oil is also a home remedy for lice with vinegar that works on choking lice.

Method of use: Put baby oil on hair, comb it slowly until it helps to drop lice from the head. After this hot water and shampoo is used to wash hair. Before going to bed white vinegar is placed on the hair, then use a towel to cover the head and leave it for the whole night. When waking, a regular shampoo is used to wash hair as usual.

Grind the radish and apply it daily before bedtime for three days.
Put the cucumber juice on the hair, with a grease and cover the hair and leave it for three days.
Massage hair roots with anise oil to kill lice.
Crush the parsley seeds and mix them with Vaseline and massage the hair out.
Pour the crushed apple with the vinegar and apply the hair, then expose the hair to the sun, then wash it after five hours, and keep this mixture for a whole week.
Head shaved hair and hot pork fat honey bath an aqueous mixture of vinegar.
Tea tree oil.

How to use: Spray a few drops of tea tree oil on the scalp and hair before going to sleep and leave it for the whole night with a towel on the pillow to kill the lice and eggs, the next morning dead lice are removed by combing the hair, and then shampooing hair. Repeat the process regularly as needed. Many people rely on the use of different types of herbs to treat lice, but there is not enough study proved the effectiveness of these herbs in the treatment of lice.

Note : Theme Treatment of lice Not a health reference, please see your doctor.