Lice Child

Head lice are parasites and need to feed on human blood to survive, are small insects that live and multiply in the head of the people. These insects are found on the scalp or close to it, especially in the neck and behind the ears.

Adult lice are the size of sesame seeds, their eggs are called nits and are even much smaller, its size is that of a flake of dandruff.

Treatment for head lice

A good head lice treatment to get rid of the lice, which include shampoos, creams, and lotions-the-counter or with a prescription. Basically there are three types of lice treatment for the removal of the same:

1. Chemical treatments: they act as a poison that pollutes the lice and the nits, they have a very strong smell, so there is that care must be taken when using it in the exact amount indicated in the prospectus.
2. Physical treatments: are silicone-non-toxic and last generation that build a film around the louse and suffocate to death, but for the nits do not work. Although it can be used in pregnant women infected with hiv without problems.
3. Natural treatments: combinations of essential oils, vacuum cleaners, lendreras manual or electric, rubber bands for hair.

The best repellent lice

There are currently various types of products that can be used as a repellent, lice without causing any resistance, like for example:

• Repellent lice naturally: as the vinegar of Quassia amara, eucalyptus oil, geraniol, limonene, farnesol, among others, are natural products that are very well known for its use to repel the lice.
• Repellent lice from biocidal products: Are products they have in formulation IR3535, a compound highly studied and endorsed as safe and has a great efficacy as an insect repellent.

The best shampoo lice

There are various chemical treatments and mergers of different types of treatment used for the removal of lice as the appointing below:

• Fullmarks Kit Treatment Lice: presents a complete kit that includes lotion lice shampoo lice and a lendrera that effectively combat those nasty insects.
• Paranix Shampoo Lice and Nits: this is a quick solution against lice and nits, as it is a lice shampoo, clinically tested, whose formula of dual-action not only kills, but also washes the hair, leaving it clean and free of parasites.
•  Vacuum cleaner head lice Stop Monsters: this appliance whose end has a lendrera is coupled with a vacuum cleaner domestic conventional and allows you to suck the head lice that are in the head.
• Medisana LCS: it Is a lendrera that brings out the lice and kills them electrically when these come in contact with the spikes, emits a constant beeping while you comb through the hair and, when it detects something, it stops beeping, which warns that has trapped the inhabitants.
• Hair bands natural lice No-Lice: Their appearance is of a paste of normal hair, and current, but due to the prolonged release of natural ingredients such as essential oils of tea tree, neem and rosemary repel lice for two months.

Home remedies for Lice

In the pharmacies you can find products to end up with head lice, however, it is possible to remove them with home remedies that are equally effective and much more economical, and among the most effective are:

1. Garlic: mix a head of garlic crushed with half a litre of water and massage the scalp, then wrap the head with a plastic cap and leave on all night to make it more effective.
2. Eucalyptus: it boil a few leaves of eucalyptus and applies in the head infected after cooling on the scalp and throughout the hair till you reach the tips.
3. Apple cider vinegar: this product is very effective against nits, or lice eggs, but if there are lice already grown, it may not be 100% effective, it must be mixed with hot water and vinegar in equal parts and apply to the dry hair.
4. Mayonnaise and vinegar: this combination is very effective for the removal of lice and nits, and at the same time it provides shine and hydration to hair.
5. Aromatic oils: scents of the oils of coconut, jasmine, anise, or geranium can cure head lice and they are very simple to apply, are also less harmful to the scalp and other chemical products.
6. Lavender oil: it is recommended to apply lavender oil pure, but only in the roots.
7. Baby oil: you must soak the head of the affected person and cover with a cap for a few hours, then wash the hair and the process is repeated a week later.
8. Olive oil: apply a great amount of this oil all over the scalp and then cover with a plastic cap leaving it to act during the night, after you wash the hair, and passed a special nit comb for head lice and nits throughout the hair.

Advantages and disadvantages of the treatments Lice

The repellent, lice help with the elimination of this problem, especially in children of school age, but not everything is beneficial, there are some treatments which have some weaknesses.

Advantages

• Most of the chemical treatments are safe and non-toxic.
• They are made with ingredients which are non-polluting.
• They are very simple to use
• In general, a treatment for lice is economic.
• You can buy them at any store or pharmacy without a prescription or recipe.
• There are some treatments lice that work with a single application.

Disadvantages

• There are methods in which it takes time to be able to apply it to kill the lice.
• If you are using the comb or lendrera in any of your presentation needs a distraction when the patient is small.
• There are a few procedures lice that requires more than one application and it is not known how many applications it would take exactly as is the case with the garlic and tea tree oil.
• The long-term use of Pyrethrins or Pyrethroids can cause irritation to the cueo scalp.

The extensive use of Pyrethrins or Pyrethroids has been building up resistance in lice for what some people do not produce the desired effect.