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Old 06-12-2013, 07:20 AM   #26
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Default Re: I think there should be a lice sticky.

Stiina! I copied out some things I wrote in another thread. I think this much is ok to post here since it isn't treatment advice:

Don't worrying about cleaning your house. We offer our clients a 60 day guarantee, and we do NOT recommend cleaning your house. It is a fallacy that lice live in the environment. They do not. The research demonstrates that this is true. (NOTE: They *could* live for 48 hours off the human head, but they CHOOSE not to climb off the head because the risk that they will die before finding another head is pretty high. They are only transferred from person to person through hair to hair contact.)

Don't use lice treatment products like Rid or Nix. The lice in the U.S. are becoming resistant to these products, and they only work on 40-50% of live bugs. Nothing kills nits at all. They must be combed/nitpicked out of the hair.

You need a comb called The Terminator. This is the only comb worth having. You can buy it online or at some health food stores and kid's hair salons.

Your head can itch for days after getting rid of lice. The bites are like mosquito bites and take a while to heal.

The reason people believe that you must clean your entire house from top to bottom and bag everything is because people very seldom get all the nits out of their hair on the first go-round. It takes 7-10 days for nits to hatch and another 10-12 days for those bugs to grow into adults and begin laying eggs. So, when you have nits that were not removed, it looks like you have gotten lice again 2-4 weeks after the initial treatment. People have assumed for years that this means that the lice were still living in the furniture and stuffed animals, etc, but that is not the case. The truth is that the nits were missed in the initial treatment.

If you choose to go to a lice treatment business, be sure to look for one that is Shepherd Certified. This is the only certified method of lice treatment in the country.

Winniewildflower, Here's the deal: Sometimes, especially if a head is not terribly infested, some method of treatment or another will work. Maybe there were not a lot of lice on your head to begin with, you killed the hatched ones with Delacet (unusual, but not impossible), and you didn't have enough nits left to hatch out both a male and a female to keep perpetuating the life cycle. Lice hatch at the rate of 3 females to every male. Also, a head with dreads is not ideal for head lice. They don't have the freedom to climb around, as they do in straight hair, and it's possible that the males and females couldn't find each other or that the females couldn't find a whole lot of space to lay eggs.

Mostly I want to discourage people from using the chemical treatments because they're toxic and unlikely to work. Then you've wasted the money AND exposed everybody in your house to some fairly toxic pesticides.
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