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Nontoxic Head Lice Treatment
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As a school nurse I am interested in effective non-toxic head lice treatments. I googled for Paramide Plus and found you. I checked with the local pharmacist but he couldn’t find anything about it. Where else might I look to find this product? I did find a place where a parent used Suave coconut shampoo and conditioner with good results. I will check the label when I get off work to see if there is any coconut derivitives in it. That would be a cheap solution for my chronic head lice families who can’t afford all the treatments. Thanks for any info.
IT’S UNFORTUNATE THAT YOU NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE TOXIC INGREDIENTS OF PARAMIDE PLUS
Hi Daria, I found this article interesting as well but I imagine Paramide Plus is a European product since like you I had no luck. I searched under folk remedies and found two interesting sites: http://pediatrics.about.com/od/weeklyquestion/a/05_head_lice.htm and http://www.myhomeremedies.com/static/head-lice.html
You may have already come up with something… as a school nurse I imagine you see it on a regular basis.
http://nighthag.hubpages.com/hub/Homemade-Beauty-SolutionsHead-Lice-Remedies-and-Treatments
has homemade remedies 4 headlice
As a father of two young daughters in public schools, we have had several head lice infestations in my family. After much trial and error and literature review, (e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10937452 we found that liberally soaking our hair in olive oil, wrapping our heads in saran wrap or a shower cap and then a towel and sleeping that way works perfectly. Even our 4 year old tolerated it well and we felt much better about this treatment than applying insecticides that clearly didn’t work anyway. Coconut oil might be easier because it is less ‘runny’, but I’m going to stick with what has worked several times for us.
I also looked for this shampoo to no avail.
Literally any conditioner or oil will work for the treatment of headlice. Just coat all hair and leave it for a few hours, then comb out the lice with a nit comb.
Diatomaceous earth works wonders!!!!!
Could you describe in what way you use it to have the wonderous effect?
Diesel fuel works great for head lice. Don’t have to put on a lot and one dose does the job.
I tried the chemical approach, my kid’s scalp got irritated and the lice didn’t disappear. I tried tea tree oil ( Melaleuca Australiensis), 10 drops per tsp of shampoo ( about a quarter size amount in my palm), letting it sit 10 minutes on the child’s scalp. That worked perfectly and caused no irritation. Also, washing all bedding, clothes, hats in hot water and drying them in the dryer, freezing stuffed toys or washing them but air dry or Low Heat Dryer.
Hi Dr. Greger. Thanks for all your awesome videos. I met you last week on the Holistic Holiday at Sea cruise where your lecture on day 1 converted my (spine surgeon) friend and his wife to a plant based diet. Thank you for that! My question is regarding topical coconut oil use. I do not eat it, as my cholesterol level runs high despite years on a plant based diet. But, I use it liberally topically on my face and body as my favorite moisturizer. Have you seen any studies that address whether or not the saturated fat in coconut oil used topically enter the body to potentially increase cholesterol? Thank you!
we use it. It’s called inecto in Europe. Our children (2 boys short hair 3 and 5) have never had lice through several school/day care outbreaks in the 8 childyears we ve used it. here is a picture of the product. just google “cocosshapmoo”.
dont know if it is still the same formula as was used in the trial featured in this video though… so for us N=2 it works until it stops working.
Before I was vegan, I used mayo on the kids heads years back. I don’t like chemicals, and didn’t want to put them on the kids head. Their grandmother tried treating them with the chemicals, then my husbnd did it as well. I told them I wanted nothing to do with that. Then I heard someone say they had it as a kid, and they did the mayo treatment. The school nurses thought I was crazy, but guess what, it worked. The entire community I lived at the time, had a breakout. My kids got rid of it before the kids that used the chemicals did. Then they all started using it. Being vegan now, I would probably use some type of oil. My theory is that it smothers the buggers, then makes them slide off easy. We did the plastic bags on the head all day, or overnight with the mayo. Like I said, my theory is that any oil will work. I haven’t put it to the test, but it looks like some others did and it worked. What an ordeal, I never want to go through that again.