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| Reference #: | 487 |
| Submit Date: | 04 Feb 2003 |
| Browse Category: | lice |
| Author: | none |
| Email Address: | none |
| Treatment used: | olive oil |
| You can buy this remedy at: | health food store |
| Remedy will cost you: | unknown |
| Country of Remedy: | USA |
| Remedy Source: | charles wilson |
| More Links about this Remedy: | none |
| # Comments posted to this remedy: | 0 |
| Complaints Reported: | 0 |
| # of times remedy read: | 21,947 |
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| Typical Dosage: | unknown |
| Dosage should be related to weight: | unknown |
| Dosages used in clinical trials are significant: | unknown |
| Maximum dosages in relation to side effects and serious side effects: | unknown |
| Other foods/nutrients/medications that can affect absorption or utilization: | unknown |
| Foods that provide the nutrient recommended as a remedy (or reference giving same): | unknown |
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| Total # reviewers: | 0 |
| Average Rating: | 0.00 |
| Effectiveness: | 0.00 |
| No Side Effects: | 0.00 |
| Ease of Use: | 0.00 |
| Effective after long term use: | 0.00 |
| Cost Effectiveness: | 0.00 |
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"Anyway, I figured out a way to give Lice shampoo totally stress free and
easy, and implemented it that evening. Instructions as follows: NEED: Two couch cushions One large Pyrex bowl with wide base (5-6 inch flat base so it won't tip over) Newspaper Towel Paper towel Metal lice comb Approx. 48 oz. of olive oil Clock or timer Place two cushions on floor for kids to lay down on. Cover one end with newspapers. Place bowl at head of cushions and have kid lay on back so that head dips comfortably down into bowl resting on more newspapers on floor. Pour in olive oil and gently lower head into bowl. This method keeps all oil out of the kid's eyes, and saves a lot of clean up in the bathroom. Work in olive oil in back of head so that all air pockets are eliminated. Keep head immersed for 15 minutes. Using your hands, gently and repeatedly bathe the nape of the neck, the forehead area and around the ears, which should be above the level of the oil. Give the kid a paper towel so they can dab in their ears when oil gets in from your bathing. The goal is to replace all of the air which the lice need with oil, which the lice cannot breath. Like people, lice cannot go without air for any significant length of time, no longer treatment is rally unnecessary, provided that you have done a good job of bathing all areas where they could be hiding out. When done bathing, lift the head and dry in a towel. Then, with the hair still full of oil, but not dripping, use the lice comb which should easily remove eggs without pain or snagging. (Remember - an olive oil shampoo at one of those exclusive European spas will cost you several thousand dollars.) Then have them shower, and wash their hair 2-3 times to remove all of the olive oil. If you have several kids, the same oil bath can be used for all. I did both kids and mommy too. Two to three follow-up treatments at five-day intervals should eliminate the lice and any eggs, depending upon the severity of infestation. Also, follow guidelines re washing sheets, clothing, hats, etc. According to web site info, lice cannot jump, cannot fly, and cannot survive more than a couple days wandering around looking for a host. Their host is their food source, and again, like people, they can't survive if they can't eat. Apparently the life cycle, as best I can discern, is 5-10 days as eggs, then 5-10 days before egg-laying maturity. In other words, a two-week vacation from the house should sterilize whatever you left behind. The lice CAN develop an immunity to the pesticides! They CANNOT develop an immunity to not breathing! Good luck all -- Alan (PLEASE FOLKS. STOP USING THE DAMN PESTICIDE TREATMENTS ON YOUR KIDS! I have read several reports On how this stuff is causing VISIBLE NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE to kids with frequent use. Just think of the subtle damage that EVEN ONE USE must cause. In fact, I reprint below a recent post on the subject. There is absolutely no need to use this stuff when safe alternatives exist!) (Sorry. That was more to my sister-in-law than anybody else.) Article follows::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: THIS SUNDAY TIMES 5 OCTOBER 1997 SPECIALIST lotions for children with 'nits" contain enough pesticide to put them five times over government safety limits and repeated use may damage their nervous system, it will he claimed this week. New research suggests that many of the chemical liquids recommended by local health authorities to combat the head-lice epidemic sweeping Britain's schools may be doing more harm than good. It shows that some of the lotions - of which more than Im bottles are sold each year - are saturated with chemicals known as organophosphates (OPs) which, once applied, seep through the scalp and into the bloodstream. OPs, developed as chemical weapons by the Nazis and later used as agricultural pesticides, have been linked to potentially fatal conditions including nerve damage, birth defects and cancer. They are contained in other domestic products such as fly sprays, flea collars and some carpet cleaners. -The research, to he broadcast tomorrow evening by the documentary programme World in Action, includes tests con-ducted by the government's Health and Safety laboratory in Sheffield on four adults and five children. Urine samples taken from each of the participants showed that traces of the OP malathion were between five and 10 times higher than those normally found in pesticide workers. A single dose of the lotion left on the hair for the recommended 12 hours is enough to exceed the government's daily safety limit by up to five times, the programme-makers report. Dr Goran Jamal, a consultant and senior clinical lecturer in neurology at the University of Glasgow, said that a single application of delousing lotion was unlikely to cause damage to a child's health but that repeated treatment, which is not uncommon because of the risk of reinfection among school children, could be dangerous. "People forget that the reason OPs make good pesticides is that they are extremely poisonous. Claims by manufacturers that we know everything about them and that they are entirely safe are total nonsense," said Jamal. Alison and Keith Thomson from Carlisle started treating their three boys with the delousing lotion Derbac-M after an outbreak of nits at their local primary school last year. "We kept treating them for about three or four months because they kept getting re-infected," said Alison. "I asked the doctor if it was okay to keep using it and be said it was fine." Just before Christmas Paul, 6, developed flu-like symptoms. He became lethargic and his personality changed. By Christmas be had become incontinent and could hardly walk. Doctors have said a possible cause is OP poisoning. Seton Healthcare, the company that makes Derbac-M and two other de-licing lotions, Prioderm and Suleo-M, said last week that it believed its products were safe because the OPs, once absorbed, were rapidly metabolised and excreted. "There have been only 28 reported adverse events in the past 20 years In the UK," the company said. Dr Vyvyan Howard, senior lecturer in fetal and infant toxi~pathology at the University of Liverpool, said last week that there was no doubt that malathion could damage human nerve cells. He added: "What worries me is that children are getting repeated doses of these products at a time when their nervous systems are still developing. "I have used these lotions myself in the past but knowing what I do now I would never dream of using them again on my children." USEFUL WEB SITES FOLLOW:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://www.cfc-efc.ca/docs/00000079.htm http://www.headlice.org/faq/lousology.html http://www.headlice.org/faq/manual.html http://www.headlice.org/faq/egghead.html http://www.headlice.org/faq/nochem.html http://www.headliceinfo.com/program.htm http://www.nonots.com/webdoc1.htm p.s. I did some research to try to find out what work the Harvard School of Public Health had done with respect to using Olive Oil to kill lice. Finally spoke to someone at the School who was familiar with the School's studies. It turns out that all the School did was to look as some dead lice that some parents had brought in - I guess to see if they had been killed by the olive oil and how. According to this spokesperson, no other work had been undertaken by the School of Public Health. Pity, since we have found the stuff far more effective than the pesticides you get at the drug store |
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