Home Remedy for Head Lice

Home Remedy for Head Lice
Incidences of head lice infestation are far from uncommon and it is often a result of finding these irritating creatures in the hair of our children, or ourselves, that leads us to seek remedies. The medical profession will undoubtedly point you in the direction of one of the many medicinal shampoos available, but these invariably contain insecticides that we do not necessarily want to introduce to our children’s heads, and furthermore some of these are now ineffective as the head louse has become immune to them.
Finding a home remedy for head lice is therefore a common pursuit, and one that can throw up some interesting, and often bizarre, suggestions. Using vinegar for head lice treatment, for instance, is a popular method of treatment, and one that comes among the more often used homemade remedies for head lice. What vinegar does is eradicate the very strong ‘glue’ that holds the nits – head louse eggs – to the hair, making them much easier to remove. Removal is done using an essential home remedy tool, the head lice comb; this specially constructed device is aimed at getting the at the lice and the nits, which live at the foot of the hair and on the scalp, effectively and successfully, and one of these is absolutely vital to successful treatment, whichever home remedy you use.
Many people swear by the use of Tea Tree Oil for head lice treatment, and this essential oil of the Australian Tea Tree, so named as the leaves were traditionally used as a substitute for tea, is known to have certain anti-fungal and medicinal properties, and is still widely used by the indigenous Aborigine people for many treatments. Widely available and harmless, this is one of the more favorable methods of treating head lice as it is known to drive them away. Tea Tree Oil is also found in some shampoos, so reading ingredients carefully, may pay dividends.
Getting into bizarre territory now we come across the suffocation methods; as the head louse breathes via small holes in its side it is believed that smothering the patients hair and scalp with certain substances – olive oil and mayonnaise are favoured – for a set time, and at repeated intervals, suffocates the insects and leaves the head lice free and clean!
All of these methods have some substance to them, and whichever one you choose there is plenty information on the internet to help you on your way to lice eradication.