Lice: what to withdraw at a time and not get infected again

Good day. One of the memories of my distant childhood is the period of struggle with lice.

It was such a year that both animals and people suffered from these parasites. What means did the people not use then!

But I well remember that our family quickly dealt with this scourge. We no longer suffered from the activities of these bloodsuckers. Want to know how to get lice out? How to do it quickly and efficiently? Then read the article below, in which I will describe in detail the most effective methods.

How to remove lice and nits

Lice are blood-sucking parasites that cause lice disease. With pediculosis, human health deteriorates: in place of insect bites, itching appears that provokes scratching - it leads to a nervous state and loss of sleep.

All of them are very prolific and breed offspring daily, laying off whitish eggs (nits) at the base of the hair. Larvae emerge from the nits within a week of 0.5 mm in size, grow up within 3 weeks, adult individuals reach a size of 4-5 mm and acquire a gray-brown color.

It is very easy to get pediculosis when in contact with other people's hygiene items, household accessories (hairpins, clothes, hats, pillows, towels), when you touch your heads when taking a selfie.

By combing with a comb, washing your hair, and washing with a powder of linen, removing lice and nits at home is not possible - you must use specialized mechanical methods, chemical, herbal remedies. Pediculosis is no longer a disease of the lower strata of society. Even a glamorous blonde can pick up lice by accidentally hitting the head of a schoolboy in the subway.

Pubic

Pubic lice due to claws are similar to small crabs. They are easy to pick up through bedding in a hotel, washcloth, towel in the shower pool, bath.

For disinfection, parasite bites are treated with chemical compounds: 10% mercury ointment or 5% boric alcohol, bedding, upper and lower clothing are impregnated with an insecticidal solution.

Paid

Clothes (lingerie) lice live in clothes, human bedding. They hide in the seams and folds of collars, belts, crawl out of them on the body to drink blood.Bites of body lice cause severe itching, which causes insomnia.

After the removal of body lice, the premises are disinfected.

How to withdraw at home

Head lice are the most popular species among children and adults, quickly transmitted from person to person in a close collective, usually localized in the scalp behind the ears, thick hair in the back of the head, crown of the head. They are transmitted in direct contact with the patient and his things.

There are many different ways to remove head lice at home: using pharmacy medicines, folk household and herbal remedies, using mechanical means such as combs with frequent teeth, electric pulses, a magnifier, hair dryer, and tongs.

In order to completely remove nits and prevent further relapses of pediculosis due to the multiplication of parasites, it is necessary to comb out the hair - this is done after processing them with chemicals, vegetable oils, fats, conditioners, balms over a white sheet or paper tissue.

Modern pharmacological agents for removing lice and nits can be bought in the form of shampoo, spray, aerosol, gel, ointment, solution, emulsion, lotion. They are applied to the hair, maintained, the time specified in the instructions (10-45 minutes), and then washed off with water, vinegar, shampoo or soap.

At home, this is done in a well-ventilated area, in rubber gloves. After the chemical has acted and washed off, dead parasites are combed out using a steel comb.

The teeth of the crest with sharp laser notches glide through the hair, collecting insect bodies, cut strong cocoons, helping to remove unkilled nits. Chemical products do not give a 100%, but a 90% guarantee for the elimination of lice, so the procedure for applying them must be repeated 2-3 times with an interval of 7 days (for 8, 15 and 22 days).

The most popular drugs for the treatment and prevention of head lice:

• Lontsid - the drug is used only under the supervision of a specialist, according to a doctor’s prescription.
• Ointment 15% (emulsion 20%) of benzyl benzoate - acts against lice and their larvae, accumulates in the intestines, poisoning the entire body.
• Sulfur ointment - acts against clock lice, can not be applied to the scalp, has antiseptic anti-inflammatory properties for the skin.
• Aerosol "Spregal" - an anti-clockwise lice, is not intended for use on the scalp, contains alcohol, therefore it is flammable.
• Aerosol "Para-plus" - is applied with an exposure of 10 minutes, has a neurotoxic effect, is washed off, parasites and nits are combed out with a comb.
• Cream or Nittifor solution - acts against pubic and head lice, acts on their nervous system, is effective for removing nits, is applied for 10 minutes, rinsed off, parasites are combed out with a comb.
• The solution "Chemeric Water" - a natural insecticidal agent, has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, affects the digestive system of lice, a person may have an allergy to its components.
• Ivermectin is effective against pediculosis, clock lice, poisons the digestive and respiratory system of parasites, is administered orally to humans.
• Hydrogen peroxide - bleaches hair, so it is used against parasites only in hair dye. Peroxides effectively remove lice and nits for 1 time.

Most chemicals sold in the pharmacy, despite the assurances on the labels, adversely affect the hair and scalp.Yes, the hair will not fall out immediately, but may become weakened. As well as the likelihood of getting dermatitis during vitamin deficiency will increase.

Folk remedies

Pharmacy chemicals often cause allergies in children under 5 years old, are contraindicated for people with bronchial asthma, skin diseases, dangerous for pregnant and lactating women, so many prefer not to consult a doctor, but to remove lice and nits with folk remedies. Popular folk remedies:

The extracts are applied to the hair and scalp, kept under a rubber cap or plastic bag for at least 2 hours, and then washed off with shampoo.

Cranberry berry juice - a strong concentration of acids softens the shell of nits, weakens the glue on which they are attached.

Vegetable olive, corn, sunflower, mustard oil - applied to the hair, kept under a plastic bag for at least 1-2 hours. Oils should stop the airways of lice, facilitate their combing out, creating a “sliding effect” on the hair.

Garlic and onion juice - a caustic concentration of juice burns adult insects, dissolves the shell of nits as much as possible, which then can be removed easily. The juice is applied to the hair and aged under the package for several hours.

Tar soap - the head is thoroughly soaped, a plastic hat or bag is put on for 2 hours. A high concentration of alkali in soap poisons the body of lice.

Hairspray - sprayed from the bottle onto the hairline and kept all night under a hat, bag, towel or other dense cloth. The varnish contains liquid silicone, which blocks lice oxygen and dehydrates their body.

Hazardous folk remedies:

Caution: Lice

Infection with lice does not depend on the cleanliness of a person. They are so easily transmitted in the simplest contact that communication with a person carrying the parasite will necessarily end in infection.

The head louse does not choose the color of the hair, its length or degree of contamination. She chooses the blood she finds by biting her scalp. A short haircut makes it easier to detect nits and lice, as the scalp and hair are clearly visible. The seriousness of the question is that the child does not always tell his mother that he feels itchy scalp and crawling in the hair of parasites.

But removing lice from a child is not at all difficult, because medicine offers various remedies for children and adults, effective after one use. That is why it is important to notice lice in time and start a war of extermination against them.

Blood-sucking parasites easily move along the hair on the legs. They do not jump like fleas, so infection occurs when people bring their heads together. The insect simply crawls from one host to another.

There is an opinion that on fair hair lice can be seen better. However, their color is not only black, but also brown, and almost white. This opinion has developed among people due to the fact that black lice are most often wound up.

Nits - the eggs that the louse lays have a transparent white hue, and they are clearly visible in dark hair. However, the main symptom of the appearance of the parasite is itching, which can subside and increase again. The child becomes irritable and moody, often crying.

The condition of his head should be monitored, especially during combing. If lice are found, there is usually no doubt - they are difficult to confuse with anyone. In this case, you can not go to the doctor, but be sure to buy a pediculosis remedy at the pharmacy.

How to destroy lice and nits?

Children's shampoo for lice and nits. Modern drugs are designed so that treatment is carried out easily and quickly. Manufacturers produce shampoo for lice for children, which allows you to treat a child unnoticed by him. It is only necessary to wash his hair once.

Combing hair. After treatment, the child should carefully comb the hair with a thick, fine comb. This is required to remove dead eggs and lice. Nits can remain unharmed, since they are a shell inside which a louse matures within a week.

Hair should be dry, but you can remove nits with wet hands. They are similar to dandruff, but in children, as a rule, there is no dandruff, so the presence of it in the hair should alert mom.

If the disease is detected by the parents again, it is important to find out where the lice come from in children and to treat all the children. In the kindergarten or school where lice are found, both treatment and prevention of uninfected children are carried out (with the consent of the parents).

Folk remedies for lice

If the purchase of special tools is not available, you can try folk methods that destroy lice. The most reliable are 2 methods that have a disadvantage in the form of an unpleasant odor:

• dust soap;
• kerosene with oil.

It is enough to wash your hair with dust soap 1 time to kill lice. Kerosene acts on them the same way, but in order to prevent the child’s hair from falling out, kerosene is mixed with any vegetable oil.

The procedure is performed repeatedly during the week until there is confidence that the lice has been cured.

Lice - how to get rid of at home

For several millennia, people have been suffering from such an unpleasant problem as lice: how to get rid of these tenacious and rapidly spreading parasites at home? And is this possible in principle?

However, the facts show that no one is safe from pediculosis. Just, having learned about the infection, almost every family tries not to advertise the problem and get rid of lice at home.

Pediculosis is most susceptible to children under 12 years of age, in connection with this it is pediculosis most common. But the disease affects both adolescents and adults. Lice easily migrate from one head to another with physical contact, exchange of clothes, hats and combs.

Most often, lice infection occurs in schools, kindergartens, kindergartens and camps, and at home the whole family can become infected literally in one evening.

Head louse is a parasite that lives on the scalp and feeds on human blood. Life expectancy for lice is about 40 days, during which time each female produces up to 200 eggs. A louse lives 5 mm from the scalp and lays eggs at the roots of the hair, attaching them with a special “glue” that makes them difficult to remove.

The life cycle of a parasite consists of three phases: an egg (nits), a nymph, an adult louse. Most lice hatch from eggs after 7–10 days. In order to live, an adult louse must be fed several times daily, because without a “host," a louse dies within 1–2 days.

How to withdraw?

So, in order to quickly remove lice at home, you must:

1. destroy lice and nymphs;
2. remove nits from hair;
3. take measures to prevent re-infection.

LiceGuard Company has been producing effective lice and nits agents for over 15 years and uses the latest developments aimed at the complete destruction of lice without the use of pesticides and toxins. There are several modern, highly effective and absolutely safe methods of treating pediculosis with LiceGuard products.

Using electric comb Robi Comb or Robi Comb Pro. The electric comb runs on a single AA battery (not included). Upon contact with the teeth, the insect is exposed to an electric impulse, as a result of which it loses its ability to move and lay down nits and dies very quickly. Insulation material at the tips of the teeth protects the scalp from unpleasant sensations.

Daily combing allows you to destroy the louse before the insect reaches reproductive age, and to prevent the emergence of new nits.

This is a painless and safe way to cure head lice at home. In the future, electric combs are used 2-3 times a week to prevent re-infection until the problem of pediculosis is solved in the institution visited by the child.

To avoid re-infection with lice, you can use LiceGuard spray. A single application to hair and clothing provides protection for the whole day.

The use of metal combs and shampoo LiceGuard. The distance between the teeth of the LiceGuard metal comb is minimal, which allows you to effectively comb dry hair and remove lice and nymphs from the head.

In order to get rid of nits, apply LiceGuard shampoo to wet hair with massaging movements, leave it on your hair for 3-5 minutes to soften the adhesive with which the nits are “glued” to the hair, then rinse. After that, you should carefully remove the nits, combing wet hair with a steel comb.

For preventive purposes, it is necessary to carry out a combing procedure every 2 days for 14 days or until the pediculosis problem is resolved in the team. For extra protection, LiceGuard Spray Repellent is applied to hair and clothing.

Combined method. This method uses electric combs to remove lice according to the scheme described above, and nits are combed out with a steel comb after applying LiceGuard shampoo.

Using LiceGuard pediculosis drugs, you can quickly remove lice and cure yourself and your loved ones.

How to avoid re-infection?

First, it is necessary to report the identified problem to the institution from where the child could “bring” lice. Pediculosis spreads very quickly, and until the problem is solved by joint efforts, even using repellent, you should be on the lookout.

Those things that cannot be washed at high temperatures should be packed in plastic bags, tied and left there for 10-14 days. Hairpins, hoops, comb comb with boiling water or alcohol.

How to remove lice, prevention

How to bring out lice - such a question may arise for everyone. For infection with lice, just one is enough.

Lice have several varieties: the head louse (lives in the hair of the head), the body louse (lives on clothes and bedding, especially in the seams) and the plaque, which affects the armpits, pubic hair, hair in the perineum, as well as eyebrows and eyelashes (here horror).

If before it was believed that lice accompany war, famine, disadvantaged areas and dirty, unclean people, now this is far from the case.

No one is guaranteed against infection: public transport, locker room at work, in the gym, in the bathhouse or in the pool; a hairdresser, a cinema and any places (even a clinic) where you sit in line. There is nothing to list: that is, wherever contact with things or furniture accessible to other people is possible.

Naturally, in large groups, the possibility of infection with head lice (lice) increases dramatically.

Naturally, the prevention of lice is of great importance. Their appearance is easier to prevent than then wondering how to get lice!

Head lice lay nits at the roots of the hair, and the hair grows by 0.5 mm per day, so the location of the nits can determine the age of infection. Visually, nits look like light grains, from afar resembling dandruff, but unlike it, they do not shake off.

What to do?

For the first time I came across head lice, oddly enough, in the hospital when I gave birth to my eldest son. In front of me in a neighboring bed in the postpartum ward there was a young gypsy who, having given birth to a baby, left the maternity hospital after a few hours.

Everything was found out during the next scratching - something fell under the nail, and my mother determined: the head louse! There was a natural hysteria with me: a young engineer with lice!

They decided to act by mechanical methods: I combed my head over the sheet with a thick comb, which, too, from time immemorial, was lying in my grandmother’s casket, and my mother and grandmother in turn just beat them on my head. Bed sheets were ironed daily with wetting.

Since the time since the infection took more than 10 days, they have multiplied decently. Now I am writing, and my head is starting to itch ... They knocked everyone out, and I combed out the nits with a comb with cotton wool dipped on cloves moistened with vinegar.

The second time the son brought head lice from school. Then I took Nittifor in the pharmacy, which is applied to the head like shampoo.It kills both lice and nits, it smells nice. They treated his head, then again in a week - and that’s all. I repeat: heat treatment of things is required!

All combs available in the house should be soaked in alcohol for several hours, and towels should be boiled. Treatment should be carried out by all family members, including children.

A good method of treating head lice (head lice) is hair coloring with products containing hydrogen peroxide, since no louse can resist it! So you can become a little blonde for this purpose.

You can soak your hair with a decoction of wormwood. Its effectiveness is not very large, but this tool has been used by the people for more than one century.

Nits are destroyed by acidic means: vinegar (not vinegar essence), cranberry juice. And then choose them with your hands - there is no other way to remove their remains.

Now, in addition to Nittifor, there are such means as Spray-Pax, Para-Plus aerosol, NIT FREE.

In addition, you can use antiparasitic shampoos for animals (not often, since this is not a medicine for people!).

It is possible to contact special anti-pediculosis centers. There will be a one-time processing. Sometimes insecticides, and preferably by a special combing method according to the Shepherd method, which is much safer for humans. Well, at home you need to process everything yourself.

They say that it’s easiest to get rid of them: shave off all the hair in the appropriate places and apply sulfuric or mercury ointment (sold in a pharmacy, I think you do not need to remind about the harmfulness of mercury ointment).

But my husband brought clothes lice from a business trip. They were well noticed right away: before putting things in the washing machine, I always shake them over the bathtub. And I saw dark dots on white enamel. Took glasses - lice!

I ran immediately to the pharmacy: what to do? They answered me - only washing, digesting and steaming. That's all that was possible, boiled, and what is impossible - washed and steamed with an iron. And that which could not be steamed was simply thrown away. And they did it.

One trouble: there are too many contraindications and side effects of this medicine.

Lice prophylaxis

Basic prevention - strict observance of basic personal hygiene requirements:

Nits - the future army of lice

How to remove lice eggs - this problem worries all people who have encountered such a disease as pediculosis. Head lice eggs, or nits, are firmly attached to the base of the hair, most often they can be found on the back of the head.

Saturated with blood, recently born lice are able to give another offspring.Therefore, in the treatment of pediculosis, it is very important to get rid of not only adults, but also their eggs: even 1-2 surviving nits can become a source of a repeated outbreak of the disease.

Alternative methods will not give the desired effect

The most reliable, effective and safe method of dealing with head lice and nits on your head is to cut your hair naked. Do not tell why this radical method is not very popular: it is clear that few people want to sacrifice their own hair to lice.

The popularity of this method in the old days was due to the fact that many popular methods of dealing with lice (dust soap, kerosene, vinegar) did not give a 100% guarantee of getting rid of head lice, since they practically did not destroy insect eggs.

No traditional method has answered the question of how to get rid of louse eggs at home. Therefore, the nits were removed manually. This procedure took a lot of time and required a lot of attention. Moreover, getting rid of nits manually required outside help.

Ready-made drugs will come to the rescue

In modern society, such extreme measures as shaving hair or treating the head with kerosene are rarely used. The fact is that in any pharmacy, any pharmacist without difficulty will give an answer to the question "how to remove lice eggs" and destroy adult insects.

Modern and highly effective drugs, such as Para Plus aerosol, help to forget about pediculosis forever. In just one or two procedures (this is read in the instructions for the purchased product), they completely destroy lice and have a detrimental effect on their eggs.

These components not only help us find the answer to the question of how to remove louse eggs, but also save time on “manual work” on choosing nits from the head.

How to independently bring linen lice

Lice are obligate parasites that inhabit the human body and clothing. Very often, pediculosis develops, which is caused by clothes lice. The disease is contagious, which requires full sanitary treatment of the laundry and body of a sick person. Consider what pediculosis is and how to bring out lice.

The development of pediculosis in humans

Pediculosis is an infectious disease caused by lice, in which the skin and its appendages (hair) are primarily affected. The causative agent of linen lice is a louse.

The size of body lice is up to 5 mm. Females are able to lay up to 400 eggs throughout their life. Hanging lice live mainly on the inner side of the lower and upper clothes, in folds, inaccessible places. During nutrition, these parasites pass from clothing to the skin. Most often, the skin is affected in the lumbar region, groin, abdomen.

Pediculosis can be infected by other people. This is possible when using personal items and clothes of a sick person, when bathing in public places, during sexual intercourse. Lice can be carriers of dangerous diseases (typhus).

Very often, the development of clothes lice is observed in people without a fixed place of residence, military personnel, children, prisoners. Often underwear lice combined with the head.

Parasite Control Methods

There are many ways to get rid of louse lice. Pediculosis treatment includes the use of drugs, cleaning and processing of linen, outerwear, carpets, bedding, and sanitization.

High temperatures quickly kill both adults and eggs (nits). All clothes need to be processed, since lice are able to crawl from one place to another. If several people live in the house, then such measures are carried out in respect of all.

An alternative way is to wash at high temperature (80ºC). A simple wash at low or medium temperature does not always give a good result. Steam processing is possible. After washing, the laundry must be ironed.

The use of insecticides

The killers of lice are very popular. They are called insecticides (pediculicides). Body lice are able to lay eggs not only on linen, but also on human cannon hair.

This requires processing not only clothes, but also the patient himself. The following drugs are most widely used against lice: “NOC”, “Permethrin”, “Medifox”, “Nittifor”, “Nyx”, “Pedilin”, “Karbofos”, “Para-plus”, “Pyretrin”, “Phenotrin” , "Parasidosis."

Most often, permethrin-based products are used. These medicines come in the form of body lotions, shampoos and creams. Such agents have a paralyzing effect on lice.

The active substance kills adult parasites, nymphs (larvae) and nits. An excellent effect is given by products whose main active ingredient is malathion. They are used in the form of emulsions and shampoos.

The peculiarity of these funds is that they are able to accumulate in the body of the parasite and poison it. These drugs are effective in combining head lice with head lice. A tool such as butadion is rarely used. With a significant lesion of the skin, various healing and anti-inflammatory ointments are additionally prescribed.

Hygiene measures for ailment

Everyone should know how to get rid of lice. Hygiene measures are necessarily included in the scheme of therapeutic measures. The patient must comply with the following recommendations:

• daily wash the body and head;
• conduct regular inspection of the scalp and underwear for lice;
• daily change underwear and bedding;
• wear only clean linen on a washed body;
• use a washcloth during water procedures;
• shave hair in the armpits and on the pubis (with a combination of pubic and ward lice);
• to process toys;
• wash clothes in hot water with the addition of insecticides;
• take washed clothes to the balcony;
• carry out the processing of carpets, mattresses, pillows, blankets.

Linen lice prefer wool and cotton fabrics, so they need to be handled most carefully. Lice are unstable to the environment. To maintain life, they need human blood, so you can get rid of lice by limiting their contact with the body. With a combination of clothes and head lice, it is important that the first washing of the head should be carried out only 3 days after the detection of parasites.

Another way to kill lice is to put all things in an airtight plastic bag for a week.

Without food and oxygen, all parasites will die. During treatment, it is best to wear smooth, synthetic clothes without seams and creases. When cleaning the premises, you can use acetic acid. The patient’s personal belongings (towels, combs) are also processed.

Popular ways to destroy pests

We get rid of linen lice with the help of folk methods.In the absence of special medications against lice, you can use the following means:

Often used various herbs (tansy). They can be purchased at any pharmacy. For processing linen, herbal decoctions are often used. A good effect gives a decoction of wormwood, mint, celandine, tansy, bird cherry. Thus, it is possible to get rid of underwear lice by observing all the rules of personal hygiene and processing clothes.

In case of accidental contact with the patient, it is advisable to use insecticides. No need to buy used upholstered furniture from strangers. Pediculosis is not a dangerous disease, but it gives the patient tremendous psychological and physical discomfort.

All about parasites in the hair

Lice are ectoparasites that feed on blood and easily coexist on the human body. They do not live long - 30 days, but during this time they manage to give numerous offspring and so on ad infinitum. Therefore, lice and nits are very difficult to remove.

Therefore, if you suddenly noticed that you were attacked by these insects, urgently address the issue of how to get rid of lice and nits with folk or special means.

What are lice?

All types of lice are divided into three groups:

• headaches;
• clothes;
• pubic.

Head lice are the most common. They can most often be found in humans, they are easily transmitted.

Pubic lice are the smallest. You can become infected with this type of lice during intercourse. They take root on pubic hairs, on eyebrows, on other insignificant vegetation on a body.

Body lice live on clothes and bedding. Usually appear on fabric that is rarely washed.

Depending on what type of insect you have become infected with, urgently select cardinal effective measures and begin to solve the problem of how to remove lice, following the instructions for a particular remedy.

In addition, you will have to perform some procedures to prevent and prevent re-infection. Without them, even the fastest result can quickly come to naught and the parasites will reenter your life.

Why are they dangerous?

All types of lice bring harm and discomfort to a person. People who simply crawl these insects feel uncomfortable, not to mention the fact that they also bite. They are also a source of infectious diseases and general ailments.

Lice bites cause:

1. severe itching at the site of the bite;
2. sleep disturbance;
3. damage to the skin, infection of the wound;
4. irritability, nervousness;
5. purulent diseases of the skin;
6. headaches.

The consequences of bites are unpleasant and also dangerous, so you need to get rid of such roommates immediately.

In addition to these symptoms, you can detect the presence of lice by the following signs: empty cocoons in the habitats of the parasites; dry remains of insects; eggs are nits.

How are lice transmitted?

Before you fight lice and nits, you need to understand how you got infected with head lice. Only by establishing the cause of the disease, you can completely eliminate re-infection.

A louse cannot jump or fly. She crawls well, runs, swims. Pediculosis infection options:

• through clothes;
• linens;
• combs, bows and hairpins.

Locations of lice:

Most often, infection occurs in groups where adults or children freely, uncontrollably exchange and use one thing. Therefore, it is children from 5 to 13 years who are most at risk of attacks from these parasites. Children actively communicate, and personal hygiene rules are not respected.

You can, of course, sympathize with them, but you should not take an active part in their life in order to get out of the crisis and return to society if you are not ready to help yourself later in order to remove the consequences of your responsiveness.

How to remove parasites?

To get rid of lice and nits at home, today there are quite a lot of tools and methods. Knowing the urgency of the problem, pharmacists are releasing new drugs. Before using any medicine, be sure to consult a dermatologist, especially if you are going to treat a child.

In pharmacies you will be offered a huge selection of aerosols, ointments, special shampoos. One of the most sought after products are:

1. Sulfuric ointment;
2. “Couple Plus”;
3. ointment with benzyl benzoate 15%;
4. “Spregal”;
5. benzylbenzonate emulsion 20%;
6. cream “Nittifor”;
7. Ivermectin;
8. "Helmet water."

Most products are suitable for both adults and children. The main thing is to consult a doctor and clearly follow the instructions for use, which is enclosed in a box with the drug.

After using any chemical agent, comb the hair with a special comb with small frequent teeth. Pre-lubricate hair with oil or grease to facilitate the procedure. Thus, you will get rid of the remains of lice and nits.

Of course, there is still a health safety issue, and not all medicines, shampoos and creams can boast of this. All of them are more or less toxic, because they kill insects.

Even folk remedies, such as hellebore, are not safe. The grass itself, on the basis of which they make an alcohol solution, is a potent poison if you take a large dose of a strong concentration of juice.

To effectively get rid of lice and nits on a child’s head, follow these instructions:

During treatment of a child, each family member should be checked for lice. Take care of personal hygiene. At the end of treatment, get rid of hats, combs and other potentially dangerous things that were worn during the illness.

During the application procedure and expectation of exposure, be very attentive to the child! Avoid contact with eyes, mouth, nose, skin on hands, etc. Otherwise, you will have to solve not the problem of how to remove lice from a child, but the more important task - how to remove toxins from his body.

Folk ways

In addition to chemicals, there are also folk time-tested.They are always at hand and are not expensive. They can be used by everyone, only you need to know how.

Means for controlling lice and nits:

• tar soap;
• vinegar;
• herbs: tansy, ledum, hellebore;
• cranberry juice;
• onion and garlic.

Now, learn more about how to use all of these tools.

Method number 1. Use tar soap. Parasitic insects are afraid of alkali, which is contained in this tool. Use it according to the following instructions:

Method number 2. Decoctions of the above herbs do an excellent job with lice. Instruction:

1. Prepare a decoction of the proposed herbs: for 1 liter of water - 4 tablespoons. herbs.
2. Insist it for 10-15 minutes.
3. Moisten your head with plenty and wrap a hat and a towel.
4. Wash your hair with water and comb.

Strictly observe proportions. Herbs are poisonous and improper use can cause skin irritation, and in especially high concentrations, can lead to death.

Method number 3. One of the most popular methods is using vinegar. The instruction is:

Vinegar only affects adults. Additional processing is needed to neutralize nits.

Method number 4. Cranberry juice has a natural acid that lice cannot tolerate. It is applied as follows:

• Rub the juice into the scalp and hair.
• Comb with a small tooth comb.
• Repeat the procedure for 10 days.
• Similarly, garlic and onion juices are used.

The big advantages of these products are that the juice destroys the membrane of nits and leaves no chance for lice. In addition, onions, garlic and cranberries are absolutely safe for children. The only negative is the smell, which is then difficult to remove.

Alternatives

More drugs and methods that help to remove lice and nits at home:

Prevention

Observing certain rules, you can protect yourself and your family. Precautionary measures:

1. change clothes more often;
2. strictly follow personal hygiene rules outside the home;
3. periodically inspect the heads of relatives for lice;
4. make sure everyone has their own personal hygiene tools.