What are the treatment options for head lice?
Treatment is needed only if you see one or more live lice. Nits (empty eggshells) do not always mean that you are infested with lice. Nits can stick to hair even when lice are gone (for example, after treatment that kills the lice). Currently, there are three main ways of clearing head lice: *Using an insecticide lotion. *Wet combing treatment (often called 'bug-busting'). *Using dimeticone lotion, a lotion that works in a different way to insecticides. The method you use to treat the lice is often a personal preference. Each method has a good chance of success, but no method is 100% certain of clearing lice. Each method is now discussed further.
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Nicola Lord, over 2 years
Very interesting article and to find out that the white bits are nits that are empty eggs but to say that headlice do not jump is untrue as we have witnessed this for ourself when my daughter had them. At the moment I am finding it very hard to irradicate the eggs even with a nit comb. The best comb available is called nitty gritty and works as the comb crosses to trap them better than the other brands.
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Melita, about 1 year
We suffered with headlice for years, but now my daughter has started to straighten her hair with hot straightners, we have no headlice, I think she has burnt them to death. So my advice is to buy a pair of straightners.
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