Home Remedies for Head Lice - Best Home remedy for Head Lice (Louse)
Olive oil left on the hair and scalp for 8-9 hours can smother lice.
Remedies for Head Lice
For head lice problem wash your hair with vinegar. Vinegar will helps in killing all the lice nits in two days.
Use cocunut oil for massaging hair scalp.
For head lice use Listerine (original flavor): Another remedy for treating head lice is rubing listerine mouth wash on your head. This will kill all the lice.
Massage your head with mayonnaise and comb it after 2 hours. This will kill all the lice and their eggs. Apply a mixture of lemon and butter on your head, wait for 15 seconds and then rinse your head.
An anti-lice oil can be mixed with coconut (or mustard) oil and 0.2 per cent lindane (BHC) or 0.1 per cent pyrethrum essence. This oil can be rubbed well into the scalp to kill lice. (Ingredients can be purchased from a chemical dealer).
Mix talcum powder with 0.2 per cent prethrum dust in it (or add 10 per cent DDT). Sprinkle this powder on the hair before going to bed and rub it vigorously so that it reaches the roots. Cover your mouth, nose and eyes to protect them from the powder.
Anti-louse lotion, either gammabenzene hexachloride lotion or cream (Lorexane, Gammaexane) or Malathion (Prioderma) will kill the eggs which can be removed by a comb with very fine teeth. One treatment is enough but all the family who are infested should be treated and the hair examined regularly for a while. You may consult a doctor for the treatment.
To remove head lice and their nits. put lotion on the head thick ( we used baby lotion) an the comb the hair out with a regular comb to get any knots out then comb out with fine tooth comb.
No Diet for Lice
There is no special diet recommended for lice treatment.
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