How To Use Tea Tree Oil For Head Lice

Head Lice Home Remedies, What is The Proper Way to Use Them?

When you are the one that must implement good head lice home remedies to kill head lice, then be serious about the job and make sure you do it right. When considering a commercial lice shampoo to get rid of lice, consider carefully the toxins that you would be exposing your child to and think about whether you really want to do that.

When you are the one that must implement good head lice home remedies to kill head lice, then be serious about the job and make sure you do it right. When considering a commercial lice shampoo to get rid of lice, consider carefully the toxins that you would be exposing your child to and think about whether you really want to do that.

Even the well noted American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the Nix shampoo product as being the most effective treatment for hair lice but if you choose to use it, you are putting pesticides on you child's skin. Because of society's typical disgust that is frequently associated with an outbreak of head lice, some parents react without much thought and try to find the quickest way they can discover to get rid of the hair lice and their eggs. Many other parents, choose to take the healthy and safety of their children into consideration and look for more acceptable alternatives.

Certainly, you want to get rid of the lice and all their nits or eggs. If your child has allergies or even if you are just concerned about using chemicals on your child then you start looking for alternatives. Likely the simplest and most time tested of the head lice home remedies used to avoid the pesticides would be to use a fine lice comb and perhaps tweezers, and manually remove the lice and their eggs (called nits) from the hair. This can be a time consuming process that needs to be done every day for several consecutive days. Even for those who use lice shampoo, the tedious process of carefully combing out the nits is still necessary.

There is another common home remedy that uses a substance like mayonnaise, Vaseline or Olive Oil which is applied to the hair in order to smother the lice. By leaving this greasy substance on overnight under a plastic shower cap (to keep the mess contained) then this remedy works quite well. This is a fairly messy process but it is commonly believed that part of the reason this works so well is because when washing, combing and cleaning up the hair afterwards, the process removes the lice and the eggs all at the same time. When using this method, it is advised that you should rinse the hair with Vinegar in order to dissolve the remaining grease and this procedure makes it more difficult for any residual eggs to stick on the strands of hair.

Another non-pesticide treatment you might want to consider is using a medication named Ulesfia. If you wanted to try it you would need to get the required prescription from a medical doctor. When using this product, the hair needs to be saturated and left on for ten minutes before being washed out. This product needs to be re-applied after seven days in order to kill any newly hatched nymphs from any nits that might have been left behind. It basically works by suffocating the living hatched lice.

There are other home remedies that have been reported to have worked to rid the hair of lice. These additional remedies include treatments made from spices, herbs and aromatic or essential oils. The most common of these is likely the tea tree oil remedy but these methods like other home methods are not regulated by the FDA and their effectiveness is not certain.

On the preventative side of things, do a little research and become familiar with how to identify adult lice, nymphs (young lice) and nits in the hair and do periodic inspections of young children, particularly if they have frequent interaction with other children. With knowledge and frequent inspections you can avoid any unnecessary inconvenience of treating children for lice when there is not a need to do so. Practicing preventative procedure helps you avoid the problem for the future.

If girls wear their hair up and if it has gel in it, these procedures reduce the chance for lice transfer from one child to another. Teach your children about lice. Lice are only transferred by direct contact from one person to another. They have no wings and do not have the ability to jump. Teach you children to avoid activities that could cause direct transfer like climbing on and wrestling with each other, sharing combs, hair brushes, hats, hair ties, bows or any other item that might have direct contact with the hair or scalp. By teaching your children to take these important steps, the probability of another "attack" of lice is significantly reduced. Education, awareness and good personal interaction habits are the best prevention available.

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Don Ellis has encountered the lousy problem of hair lice multiple times in the last 40 years. He has learned how to solve lice problems very effectively and is here to help you!. For more great tips on head lice home remedies. visit his site now - dealing with all aspects of how to kill hair lice. Don has many more free tips to help you. Check it out now!

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