Effective Home Head Louse Treatment

Effective Home Head Louse Treatment

A quick check of the Internet will reveal many home treatments for head louse. The problem, however is in finding an effective home treatment that can get the job done. While many a home remedy for treating head louse can be found, they all seem to have what I would consider a fatal flaw for them to be effective.

At issue then is the definition of effective. The dictionary at dictionary.com defines effective as adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result.

Understand that every treatment, and home remedy for louse removal have families, who tried it and have claimed success. The great majority of head louse removal home treatments however are based on the premise that you can kill the lice by removing their oxygen supply. This is why many of the home remedies use a strategy of coding the hair with suffocating agents such as oils, hair conditioner or any other heavy type of product.

Even assuming this type of method works, the requirement that it be left in your hair usually at least eight hours is a major negative for many.

Note that according to the Harvard School of Public Health almost as many home treatment and remedy failures have been reported as the number of success stories using these products.
So while every method has its champions, there is unfortunately no research data to prove or disprove the efficacy or effectiveness of any home treatment for head louse or remedy.

If you then consider the fact that head lice is considered a contagious infestation. If only because it's easily transmitted, taking a chance on any home head louse treatment is a gamble with your whole families hair health.

By using any treatment or remedy does not been verified are validated through scientific research, you run the risk that other members of your family may contract head louse. Remember that if only one nit is left behind, you risk a re-infestation of one or more family members.

Here are a few of the home head louse treatments that have been claimed to be effective
1. Vaseline
2. Motor Oil
3. Dog Shampoo
4. Rubbing Alcohol
5. Neem Oil
6. Tea Tree Oil
7. Olive Oil

As you can see, these are all very common household products that have been advertised on the Web as a more natural way to rid yourself and your family of lice. Although there are natural products that don't use poisons and pesticides that work.

Remember that information on these home treatments suggest only a 50% success rate is the very best you can expect.

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Pediculosis -- Infested with lice

Itching -- An uncomfortable sensation in the skin that feels as if something is crawling on the skin or in the sk

Nymph -- An immature stage of an organism which largely resembles the adult stage, save for some minor differences. For example, cockroach nymphs can be differentiated from the adults by the fact that the nymphs do not have wings.