How to remove lice and nits in adults and children at home

Hello! When I was in the ninth grade, I first learned about such a thing as pediculosis.

The victim was not me, but my classmate. She missed several days of classes, and then returned as if nothing had happened.

For a long time I could not understand how she managed to get rid of lice so quickly. But then, at one of the breaks, Masha told me everything. It turned out to be not so difficult. Want to know how to remove lice and nits? Now I will share with you the most effective ways.

How to remove lice and nits in a child at home

In the autumn and winter period, as a rule, in front of parents of schoolchildren and kids attending kindergartens, the question arises, how to remove lice and nits?

When things are stored in one wardrobe, or when children interact closely during the game, a situation arises when insects can crawl from one child’s things to another’s. There is an opinion that lice get wound up faster in people who poorly observe the rules of personal hygiene, but this is far from the case.

In fact, lice do not “distinguish” either the person’s purity level or social status: a single close contact with an infected person is enough to get lice and nits. In addition to items of clothing, combs can be sources of infection, combs, hygiene items - just what is difficult or impossible to control in children's communication. Children can simply lie side by side on the same bed in a summer camp - and this will be quite enough for the entire "squad" to have lice.

Symptoms of infection

Human louse is of two morphotypes:

1. the head louse lives in those places where human hair has a circular cross section (hair, beard, mustache);
2. clothes (pubic) louse is distributed mainly on the pubis, eyelashes, where the hair has a triangular section.

The head louse or scientifically Pediculus humanus capitis differs from the linen in a shorter body (male 2-3 mm, female 4 mm). With 3 pairs of small paws, lice move on the skin. The initial color of the parasitic insect has a gray tint, as it feeds on blood, the body darkens, becomes red-brown.

Lice are not life threatening, but deliver a lot of discomfort.Lice bites itch and itch - combing which, you can bring any infection. And the lice carrier may develop anemia and weaken the immune system. Like any blood-sucking, lice can be carriers of a very dangerous disease.

Typhus fever does not pose a threat to the population, but the epidemic of “rash” during the Civil War was so widespread precisely because of the widespread prevalence of lice, which were carriers of typhus.

In medicine, infection with lice is defined as a disease - head lice. Not all modern medications for pediculosis control give a 100% effect after the first use - let's see below which ones and how they work.

It is important how quickly from the moment of infection you find lice in a child. It is easy enough to identify lice and nits in children, if you are attentive to the behavior of your child. Unfortunately, itching of the skin of the head does not occur immediately. Getting on a clean head, an insect begins to multiply actively. After 1-2 weeks, the number of adult lice increases by 4-5 times.

It is with bites that a feeling of itching arises, an insect with microscopic jaws digs into the scalp, absorbing blood. Each insect makes 6-7 punctures per day, all this creates incessant itching, and the child’s hand constantly stretches to the head, combing hair and often injuring the scalp.

If there is a suspicion of lice, lay the child’s head on a light towel or pillowcase - preferably under a table lamp, and carefully examine the entire head. Pay special attention to the temporal and occipital zones: in these places the human skin has the highest temperature, which favors the accumulation of parasites.

To detect louse eggs (nits), you need to carefully examine the hair along the entire length. And if, your suspicions were justified, then the next question will be - how to remove lice and nits from a child effectively and quickly.

Effective Pediculosis Remedies

Modern pharmacological capabilities help to quickly remove lice in a child. For this, various means have been developed, therapeutic shampoos, sprays and lotions. For example, products containing the active substance, permethrin, have been popular for a long time. It was believed that it paralyzes the nervous system of the parasite, causing its death.

Unfortunately, decades later, it turned out that lice had developed resistance to permethrin and it ceased to be effective in controlling them. At the moment, permethrin preparations are not produced or sold in Europe (already about 5-7 years), and in Russia they are recognized as ineffective and are also being discontinued from 2018.

If you are puzzled by the question of how to remove lice and nits in a child, you should proceed from his age and general health. This will help you choose the best remedy for lice, which will not cause skin irritation of the baby and allergic reactions. It will be useful to know that many pharmacy drugs may be contraindicated in asthmatics and allergy sufferers.

So, with what to bring out lice and nits in a child? Shampoos for lice - have a soap base, applied to dry hair, or with a small amount of water. Carefully applied to the entire surface of the head and hair - it is important not to miss a single area. The child’s head remains soapy for 15-20 minutes (depending on the instructions for a particular drug), and then it is necessary to thoroughly rinse the hair and scalp.

Then a long combing process awaits you - after all, you need not only to remove mechanically dead lice, but also physically remove the nits that are firmly glued to them from your hair. Most shampoos require a repeat procedure after 2-3 days, because they are often ineffective in dealing with nits. Today there is only one shampoo that does not need to be reused, becausehe kills both lice and nits in one go - Leisner shampoo, but about it separately a little lower.

Lice lotions - have a high concentration of the active substance, while maintaining a long-term harmful effect on lice eggs. But it is this factor (a high concentration of active, i.e. most often quite toxic substance) that can cause an allergic reaction in young children.

Sprays from lice - are the most gentle means, mainly intended for the prevention of head lice, after being in a team with an infected person.

Treatment of lice and nits is a comprehensive approach that includes not only treating the head with synthetic insecticides, but also combing the hair with the special comb to remove dead and weakened parasites and their eggs.

Popular remedies for lice: Nittifor, NOC shampoo, Medifox, Lavinal, Paranit, etc. At the same time, many of the above shampoos (permethrin-based products), as mentioned above, have long since lost their effectiveness against lice and nits.

In addition, a number of shampoos and lotions are made on the basis of derivatives of silicone, which leaves a feeling of film on the hair and can even ignite when dried with a hairdryer. It is unlikely that parents will like that instead of getting rid of lice, the child will completely get rid of hair (because they burned from drying).

The best remedy for lice today is Leisner shampoo

This is officially recognized by the Research Institute of Disinfectology of the Russian Federation and the drug is included in the list of highly effective pediculocidal drugs. Leisner was developed by a German scientist, president of the World Society of Parasitologists Heinz Melhorn. At the heart of the drug is a natural Nim tree extract.

The product is hypoallergenic, smells good, does not provoke scalp irritation, and therefore is safe even for the smallest children. Moreover, it is used as a regular shampoo - i.e. directly cleanses the head of dirt, and does not require "rinsing" with an ordinary shampoo after treatment.

"Leisner" effectively destroys not only adult insects, but also nits, which eliminates the likelihood of relapse. Not only that, the principle of action of the agent is the destruction of the natural hydrophobic (protecting against water ingress into the respiratory tract) mechanism of lice, and they simply choke and die from Leisner.

The fact is that “Leisner” is able to soften the very “glue” with which the nits are attached to the hair. As a result, nits simply “fall off” from the hair themselves. The application time is only 10 minutes, and after washing it is enough to comb the hair with a regular comb to remove the remains of dead insects and those few nits that did not rinse off with water while rinsing the hair. Reprocessing is not required since Due to its properties, Leisner destroys lice and nits in one use.

How to cure at home

Among the relatively effective folk remedies, hair treatment with a garlic-onion mask is widely used, and for children you can use the gentle option by slightly diluting the squeezed juice with water. Unfortunately, adult lice, but not nits, are relatively sensitive to this remedy. In this case, a high probability of getting a scalp burn from a caustic composition.

You can also get rid of lice with vinegar. A solution of 9% vinegar with olive oil is rubbed into the hair and hair roots, eliminating lice.A feature of folk remedies is a very long procedure time. Masks on the hair should be kept for at least 2 hours, which not everyone will tolerate. And, because it’s not a medical calculation of the exact proportions of the components of the product, but “weight by eye”, you can seriously harm your hair and just “burn” the scalp. Therefore, it is still much more practical and easier to remove insects with proven medications - the same Leisner or others that are on sale.

How are lice transmitted?

As mentioned above, lice are transmitted from person to person through close contact, crawling from the infected person’s head to a clean one. Non-observance of personal hygiene rules, the use of other people's hairbrushes, hats can lead to infection.

Effects

The consequences of lice infection can be:

• itching
• wounds after combing the scalp;
• pustular lesions due to scratching and infection;
• restless sleep;
• irritation of the nervous system.

How to prevent the occurrence?

The most important method for the prevention of head lice is the observance of personal hygiene. But even so, it is not possible to 100% guarantee the exclusion of infection. And if, nevertheless, a nuisance in the form of lice is detected in your child, you should not panic, there are a lot of means to bring lice at home.

How to remove lice and nits in children?

Pediculosis (more precisely, head lice) is a parasitic disease that causes head lice. Unfortunately, head lice are not the only representatives of these parasites, and it is quite possible to collide, in addition to the head ones, with pubic and with body lice. However, most often, our contemporaries deal with head parasites.

But this, unfortunately, is far from the case, since lice absolutely do not care who and how many times they wash. Moreover, lice, choosing a new habitat, prefer to move to clean hair.

You can become infected with pediculosis wherever people go - in the subway, in the tram, in the supermarket, and in the sports club, even if it is the most elite, not to mention kindergarten, school or summer camp for children.

Some countries (for example, Russia) do not have reliable statistics on the incidence of pediculosis.

The official statistics of this huge country officially reports a 0.2% prevalence rate for pediculosis (among schoolchildren up to three percent), but there is every reason to believe that these data are very underestimated, since even quite prosperous France claims a pediculosis incidence rate among children and schoolchildren up to 20%, and the United States has long had government programs to combat this disease. It is, of course, that there is that louse, however ...

Historical facts indicate that the epidemic of pediculosis has always been accompanied by any disasters - both social and natural. Yes, this is understandable, because in such conditions people did not have the opportunity to observe basic hygiene rules, and often they had to live very crowded.

For example, according to M.S. Gilyarova, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774, much more people died from the typhus epidemic than were killed on the battlefield and died of wounds.

Epidemics of typhus were rampant not only during the Middle Ages, but also in the enlightened and fairly civilized times of the twentieth century, which, however, is also known for two brutal world wars.

Signs of infection (head lice)

What is lice? In order to deal with some kind of misfortune, it is necessary to understand what exactly is the struggle being waged. In the case of pediculosis, it is necessary to understand what lice are.

Lice are small parasite insects, the size of which can vary from 0.4 to 6 mm. The head and chest of this parasite are very small, but the abdomen is relatively large.

With the most insignificant mathematical calculations, it becomes clear that the number of lice on the head of a person infected with head lice in the absence of effective treatment will grow exponentially and very quickly make life simply unbearable.

Lice eat only human blood. A louse pierces a person’s skin with a special stylet needle and releases poisonous saliva into the wound, which does not allow blood to clot and causes very severe itching. When a louse draws blood from its victim, the entire organism of the parasite turns into a single pump.

Lice cling to the hair with the help of tiny claws on the legs, however, despite the size of the claws, their grip, as they say, is “dead” and tearing off lice from the hair is very difficult. In space, lice are orientated by smell, since their eyes are practically absent.

A new louse appears on a person’s head from nits in about a week (from 4 to 8 days, depending on the ambient temperature). If the temperature drops to 23 ° C, then the development of larvae (nits) slows down and a new individual appears after 16 days. Thus, it becomes clear that the larvae removed from the hair but not destroyed can hatch, continuing the chain.

If the ambient temperature rises above 40 ° C or falls below 22 ° C, then the larvae cannot hatch and die. Adult lice die at temperatures exceeding 44 ° C. In addition, adult lice can go without food for up to ten days when the ambient temperature drops below 20 ° C.

How to get rid of parasites?

Unfortunately, it is impossible to get rid of lice with the usual shampooing, because lice can cling to a person’s hair for some time without air and survive “bathing” quite safely, without any damage.

Such folk remedies include washing hair with kerosene, and the procedure was required to be repeated several times.It must be assumed that in some cases this method turned out to be effective, but tell me, where can I get kerosene today and which mother will smear the head of her child, even if he is no longer a baby, kerosene is not very useful for health?

There were times when they tried to get rid of lice and nits with vinegar or copious lubrication of the head with petroleum jelly. But, again, what modern mother agrees to do such an execution on her child, and more than once?

According to the results of observations, it was revealed that the so-called folk remedies for combating parasites are effective in about one out of ten cases, and then with a certain considerable persistence. Studies have confirmed that the effectiveness of insecticides reaches 80%.

But there are a few warnings.

• Firstly, not all insecticides act on lice eggs, that is, treatment with an insecticide will have to be repeated when new lice hatch from the egg, but are not yet able to reproduce.
• Secondly, lice may become addicted to certain types of insecticides, so it is likely that the treatment will have to be repeated using another means.
• Thirdly, turning to a pharmacy for an anti-pedicular shampoo a second time, you should pay attention not to the name of the shampoo, but to the active substance.

As for the removal of nits from the hair by combing or trying to select them manually, you must immediately warn that this process is incredibly time-consuming, lengthy and extremely rarely leads to a successful result.

It is not surprising to skip the nits, and if at least one nits remain, then all the work will go down the drain, and secondly, the nits are very firmly glued to the hair and it is not easy to tear them off.

Shaving the head has always been considered one of the ways to combat head lice, but sometimes it becomes very problematic, especially when it comes to teenage girls. After all, it’s not about a short or even a very short haircut, but about the fact that there is no hair left on the head at all, that is, about a “zero” haircut.

Combing - what can be said about this method? The first - its effectiveness does not exceed 40% with considerable persistence and perseverance. The second - the comb or comb must be metal. Third - the distance between the teeth of the crest should not exceed 0.3 mm.

The best solution that allows you to kill two birds with one stone - that is, to destroy lice and nits, and not waste time tedious for a long time combing out, is the use of shampoo "Leisner". As described above, this product contains a natural insecticide - 100% natural extract of the tropical Nim tree. The substance makes lice and nits vulnerable to water, reveals their respiratory openings, so insects simply drown.

At the same time, the active substance also helps to remove the nits from the hair, so that subsequent combing is not necessary, and you can be sure: there will be no relapse! The naturalness and hypoallergenicity of the Leisner component (developed, recall, by the world's leading parasitologist, leader of the parasitologist community, Heinz Melhorn) guarantees the safety of use even for the smallest children.

Prevention

It seems that to warn adults that many items of the toilet are exclusively individual, even somehow awkward. However, children need to be reminded and explained of these rules that it is not about greed, but about health.

Firstly, the child needs to be explained that you can’t change hats, hair pins or scarves even with the best girlfriend at school or on the street.

Thirdly, when visiting the pool, you need to wear a rubber cap for swimming on your head.

Fourth, if someone in the family has contracted pediculosis, it is necessary not only to start treatment, but also to treat all things with hot steam or wash at a temperature of at least 60 ° C.

If there is no steam mop in the household, then it is necessary to use an iron and iron all things, paying special attention to bedding and clothes, after washing them properly. It is possible that combs and elastics for hair, as well as hairpins, are better to throw away (at the same time there will be a reason to buy new ones).

A very thorough general cleaning of the apartment is required, more than once. The same applies to a car or a summer residence - that is, all places where parasites could have ended up anyway.

Effective anti-pediculosis remedies

To date, only pharmaceuticals can be considered truly effective and safe means to combat pediculosis, the effectiveness of the use of which exceeds the effectiveness of any so-called folk remedies up to ten times. And if we take into account the ease of use, then there are practically no questions left.

In particular, we recall the above, preparations with permethrin, a once popular insecticide to which lice have developed resistance, have gone into the past. Therefore, today, due to their inefficiency, drugs with permethrin are forbidden to be sold through the pharmacy network both abroad and on the territory of our country.

New generation anti-pediculosis drugs, for example, natural Leisner shampoo, can affect not only adults, but also larvae and nits, and are recommended for use not only in adults, but also in children from the age of three.

Anticancer drugs should not be used without consulting a pediatrician in children under one year of age. If you need to use any anti-pediculosis drugs in pregnant women and breastfeeding women, as well as those who suffer from any form of allergy or bronchial asthma, a doctor’s consultation is required.

How to get rid of lice and nits at home

In the overwhelming majority of cases, low-income disadvantaged sections of the population who do not follow basic hygiene standards and simply do not know how to get rid of lice in case of infection suffer from head lice most often, therefore they infect everyone around.

Tidy people who take care of themselves, but do not carry out regular preventive measures, also run the risk of contracting infection, since it is easier to parasitize these insects on clean scalp, because it is without greasy cover.

Varieties

Pediculosis is caused by insects that parasitize animals and humans - lice. There are 3 varieties on a person: head, pubic and body lice.

Lice feed on blood and lymph, have a size of 0.5-1 mm, have a brown or dark gray color, proboscis, legs with claws, live on a person for 35-38 days or a little more than a month, without blood for no more than a week.

They multiply rapidly by laying eggs (nits), from which offspring hatch within a week. Lice go through 4 stages of development: nits, larvae, nymphs, and mature individuals.

They can be carriers of epidemic diseases, the most dangerous of which are: rash, relapsing fever. Head lice attach eggs to glue on the root of the hair, and lice lay eggs in the seams of clothes. Larvae hatching from nits develop within 3 weeks.

Causes and factors of infection

Infection occurs only through direct contact, since lice crawl rather than jump like fleas: when the hair touches, through household items and personal hygiene products (hats, hats, bedding and pillows, hairpins).

You can get lice in a public place, a hairdresser, a hotel, a bathhouse, a locker room, in crowded places, at the time of a group photo of a "selfie". More likely to pick lice for people with long hair, braids, and not a short haircut.

Children are most susceptible to pediculosis; they become infected in groups in kindergarten, school, on vacation in summer camps and other children's institutions. When lice appear in one child, the entire team can become infected very quickly, therefore quarantine is often introduced to prevent an epidemic.

Symptoms

The first symptoms of pediculosis infection are local itching in the hairline behind the ears, in the temples, nape, crown of the head, pubis, body, skin irritation, bluish bite marks. As soon as you notice such symptoms, you need to examine the head as soon as possible and begin treatment.

With a running disease, getting rid of lice and nits is much more difficult, since strong scratches are present on the infected person’s head, pustules, boils can be found, and his general malaise, nervous state, and loss of appetite can be observed. From constant bites, the infected person loses sleep, scarlet allergic rashes become more noticeable on his skin.

We get rid of combing (mechanical method)

Lice can not be killed with water, soap, ordinary shampoo or detergent, but against them you can successfully use funds from a pharmacy or alternative methods. However, no matter what means you use at home, you can finally get rid of nits only mechanically when combing them out with a comb (AntiV, Nit Free, Liceguard) or picking out with your hands.

The combing is carried out according to the following scheme, usually in rubber gloves, while making sure that the solutions do not get into the eyes and mouth:

Shaving in bulk is the safest and 100% effective method that helps to remove nits 1 time for head lice, the most convenient method for removing lice with pubic lice. The use of this method is not always justified, in some cases it is better to shorten the hair to the shoulders, but not to shave off completely.

Pharmacy products

It is quite easy to get rid of lice and nits with the help of medicines from the pharmacy - they do not give a 100% guarantee and often do not have ovicidal (from nits) action, but when used 1-2 times they are very effective.

At the same time, attention should be paid to: in many of the listed drugs, the active substance is permethrin - an insecticide that has lost its effectiveness. Lice in the past were sensitive to it, but over the years they’ve gotten used to it, so today such drugs are recognized as ineffective and are withdrawn from sale, including in the Russian Federation. In other products, the active base is silicone dimethicone or mineral oils, which are washed out of the hair with great difficulty, leave a feeling of an oily sticky film for a long time, and can even ignite during hair dryer drying!

Some drugs have a long-lasting effect and prevent re-infection. Boric, mercury ointment, 5% benzyl alcohol have very good disinfecting properties, so they are smeared with skin after bites of pubic and body lice.

Modern therapeutic ointments, aerosols, sprays, solutions, lotions and shampoos are available with the active substances Permethrin, Piretrin, Sumitrin, Malathion, Fenotrin, Dimethicone, Cyclomethicone - parasites adapt to some of them and develop resistance.

Pharmacy preparations contain pesticides, so they must be used strictly according to the instructions, and preferably under the supervision of a specialist. Preparations with a synthetic composition often cause allergies, dandruff, and, if overdosed, lead to poisoning, therefore it is contraindicated in children under 2-5 years old, pregnant and lactating women, people with allergies, people with skin diseases.

A truly safe and 100% hypoallergenic drug that can be used even in infants and pregnant women, nevertheless, today Leisner shampoo is. It does not contain chemical insecticides, it is not allergic and safe, its active substance is a natural extract of neem, tropical tree. The drug is harmless to everyone, including very young children. The developer of the drug, Professor Heinz Melhorn, head of the World Society of Parasitologists, took into account all the most important "little things." Thanks to this detailed account of absolutely all the nuances that concern parents, you can use the drug like an ordinary shampoo, and after one use all lice and nits are completely destroyed.

After the destruction of lice and nits, people always sanitize furniture, carpets, floors and walls of the premises, wash at high temperature or boil bedding, clothes, towels, soft toys, iron them with a steam iron - all these are additional measures that help to kill parasites finally.

If it is impossible to heat-treat the laundry, it can be impregnated with insecticidal preparations, dry for a long time in the sun, and dry cleaned. Extremely high or low temperature kills lice in a short time.

In order to prevent head lice, you need to check all family members, avoid contact with homeless people, vagabonds, unscrupulous people, try not to visit places where there is frank unsanitary conditions.

Folk remedies

If you can’t use pharmacy drugs based on chemical or synthetic poisons, you can try to get rid of lice and nits with folk remedies, but you need to remember that they can also be dangerous, and are only 90% effective, and in addition almost always require re-application .

If you are a woman and dye your hair, you can use hair dye with hydrogen peroxide, it kills adult parasites and nits at the same time.

At your own risk, you can soak your hair with kerosene (optionally dilute 1 to 1 vegetable oil) and put a plastic bag over your head. Kerosene strangles adult lice well, but not nits. At the same time, kerosene harms hair and skin, makes them oily, makes combing difficult. Due to toxicity, it cannot be kept on the head for longer than 20-30 minutes.

Vinegar 9%, diluted with water 1 to 2, also helps to kill adult lice and their larvae, but can not cope with the shell of the eggs, although to some extent it dissolves, weakens the nits glue. A solution of vinegar 3-4.5% spoils the structure of the hair and dries the skin, causing pain in the wound.

You can turn to herbal remedies and use cranberry berry juice. It is rubbed into the hair roots and skin for 2-3 hours, at night they put a plastic bag on his head. Like vinegar, cranberry juice irritates the skin, can provoke pain, irritation and allergic reactions.

Chemeric water is used from medical solutions, it is applied to the hair along its entire length for 2-3 hours and kept under a plastic bag. The application is repeated after 7 days, but no more than 3 times due to the toxic composition. The tool is insecticidal, so it should not be used for prevention.

Essential oils of anise, tea tree, lavender scare away and kill lice, in some cases with nits. They antiseptically act on the skin, soften it, and relieve itching. The oils are rubbed into the roots of the hair, distributed over their entire length and incubated for 2-3 hours. If you do not have allergies, anise oil, tea tree, lavender can be applied in the form of a few drops to the skin for prevention - their aromas repel parasites well.

Tar and laundry soap are effective due to the high concentration of alkali, but tar tar is better to use, since tar softens and heals the skin, and the composition of laundry soap is very dry.

Dichlorvos is also dangerous, it contains organophosphorus components, which, during intoxication of the human body, cause irreparable harm to his health.

As a folk remedy, you can use the “Charm” varnish - it contains liquid silicone oils, so it acts on the principle of dimethicone, blocking the flow of oxygen into the airways of lice and nits. Varnish is applied to the hair for the whole night, the head is wrapped with a towel or plastic bag.

Another truly folk remedy - finely chopped onions, garlic. Porridge with juice is rubbed into the roots of the hair for 2-3 hours, washed off with a weak solution of vinegar, citric acid or shampoo. This method, due to the causticity of the composition, harms the skin, irritates it, and can lead to burns.

Essential oils of peppermint, geranium, lemon, aloe vera, sage, calendula are more suitable for the prevention of head lice, they have repellent rather than therapeutic properties, although they can clog lice spiracles in a high concentration in specialized preparations.

Ledum, angelica - dried and ground poisonous plants are mixed with fat, applied to the hair several times during the week. Plants are toxic, can cause allergies and, with careless actions, poisoning, so this folk method of dealing with nits is unsafe.

Larkiness - grass is mixed with citric acid 1 to 2, applied to the hair and scalp.

Procedures involving folk remedies need to be completed by washing them off, and combined with mechanical hair combing with a special comb with frequent teeth and sharp laser notches.

How to get rid of lice in folk ways

There is an opinion that only low-income and untidy people have lice. In fact, this view is erroneous. Any person can become infected with head lice in a public place. But mainly, our children, who bring such “gifts” from kindergartens, schools and summer camps, become the carriers of this delicate disease.

To get rid of lice in our time, it seems, is not a problem - there are a lot of different ointments, sprays, shampoos. But, as practice shows, all these new-fangled little things help not everyone and not always.

These tools also act selectively, so if one method did not help you, try the next. Be sure to get a scallop with frequent small cloves. In the war against parasites, he will be the main and indispensable weapon.

Cranberry juice helps many people get rid of lice very effectively. Squeeze the juice from 1-2 handfuls of cranberry berries, rub it into the scalp and distribute it through the hair. Put a plastic bag over your head and tie it with a scarf.

Keep the composition on your head until completely dry, 3-4 hours, you can leave it overnight. Wash your hair and comb with a frequent comb. It is advisable to repeat the procedure daily for 1 week.

Cheremic water will also help to remove lice. Rub water into the roots and wet your hair, wrap it with a bag and a handkerchief and leave it for 2-3 hours or overnight. Then wash your hair and comb out lice and nits with a frequent comb. Repeat the procedure after 7-10 days 3-4 times. For prevention, you can then use the method 1 time per month. The tool is poisonous! Therefore, you need to use it very carefully.

Another way to get rid of lice is to use aniseed oil. It, in addition, has a beneficial effect on the scalp and relieves itching. Thoroughly rub the oil into the hair roots and spread over the entire length, hold for 3-4 hours, wash your hair and comb out the hair with a small comb. Anise and other essential oils can trigger allergies!

You can remove lice in the following way: Finely chop the onion, add 2 egg yolks, rub into the head and distribute through the hair. Rinse the composition after 1-2 hours, rinse with water and lemon juice to get rid of the smell of onions, and wash your hair with shampoo.

We have examined ways to get rid of lice that do not cause any discomfort or harm to the scalp and hair. There are still extreme methods - using kerosene, the old fashioned way. If you decide to apply them, then be very careful. At the first sign of discomfort, pain and burning sensation, flush away all products immediately!

You can smear your head with just kerosene, wrap it with a bag and a handkerchief, and after 20 minutes rinse and comb out everything with a comb.

And you can bring lice with a mixture of equal parts of kerosene and vegetable oil. Using a cotton swab, apply the composition to the hair, cover with a tight bag, tie a scarf tight.

A couple more tips: it is important not only to get rid of lice, but also to take preventive measures to avoid their new appearance:

1. Be sure to check the heads of other family members for nits and lice;
2. replace all bedding. It would be better to boil it;
3. iron with the iron at the highest possible temperature all the clothes that you wore when you had pediculosis and were treated;
4. boil all the combs.

How to remove lice and nits

Many people, succumbing to stereotypes, think that lice can only be acquired by unscrupulous, neglecting hygiene people. Nothing like this! Lice do not care about your noble birth or belonging to the cream of society. Age, gender and education are not a hindrance to them either.

They come unexpectedly from places where no one is waiting for them. For example, your own child may bring such a “surprise” from a kindergarten or school.

It is useless to resent the impudence of these insects, it is more reasonable to calm down and learn how to remove lice and nits, also read what needs to be done so that this situation does not happen again.

How are transmitted

In order to understand what and how to deal with lice, you need to find out how they are transmitted and what to do in order to stop this.

How do lice get into the house, or rather, on the scalp and hair? To fight the enemy, you need to know his habitat, way of moving and behavior.

The insect parasite “louse” is designed in such a way that it cannot jump from head to head or fly, it is not capable of. But she crawls excellently, runs pretty fast, and even swims in the water. Through a hat, a hairbrush, clothes, a pillow, bedding and even children's bows and wreaths (how to weave a wreath of flowers, read here), lice willingly move to the new owner.

Adults become infected in public places: hairdressers, pools, saunas, beaches. Zones with an increased risk of infection include barracks for the military, prison colonies. For more information on louse locations, click here.

How to remove lice from a child

In order to give the parasites a turn from the gate in time and not to aggravate the situation, all parents should know how to get the lice out of the child.

A louse lives on the skin of the head, laying off larvae called nits. They look like miniature cocoons that adhere firmly to your hair. To remove them, you need to make an effort. But adults with their proboscis pierce the skin and suck blood, which in fact causes unpleasant sensations, itching and discomfort.

It is necessary to distribute the product evenly through the hair, cover it with a film, then wrap it with a towel, by the way, you will have to get rid of it later. After holding the drug on time according to the instructions, rinse the hair in warm water. After that, carefully comb them with a comb with frequent teeth, this will help to remove the "dead" lice and nits.

Within two weeks it is necessary to monitor whether your child is itching, periodically inspect the hair and remove the remaining "bodies" of insects.

During the treatment of the child, the adults around him must make sure that they do not have lice. And if parasites are still found, then the whole family needs to be treated. At the end of treatment, combs, panamas, bandanas and all items that could be a potential hostel for lice should be treated.

At the same time, there is a way to get rid of lice in a child much more efficiently and simply with the help of Leisner shampoo. It does not require application under a film, does not require repeated applications, since after just one application (and use it as a simple shampoo), it completely kills lice and nits.

Principle of action: to destroy the water-proof layer on the body of insects (lice and nits drown) and soften the glue by which the nits are attached to the hair (nits "detach" from the hair and fall off without external effort). Moreover, the exposure time on the head is only 10 minutes! "Leisner" is hypoallergenic, and it can be safely used to combat lice in children of any age.

Pediculosis treatment at home

In addition to medicines from the pharmacy, folk remedies can also be used. On how to bring lice at home, read on.

Rubbing at least 10 days into the scalp and hair is relatively effective:

• cranberry juice;
• vegetable oil with wrapping for several hours;
• tansy infusion (for 1 liter of boiling water 4 tbsp. l. pharmacy collection, insist 10 - 15 minutes);
• decoction of rosemary and hellebore (2 tbsp. l. each herb), mixed with 50 gr. warm pork fat; proportions must be observed, as the herbs are poisonous.

After each of these procedures, rinse the hair and comb it thoroughly with a comb.

How to Withdraw Lice Vinegar

The most popular way to deal with lice is to remove vinegar, which has been familiar to many of us since childhood. Does he really help? Let's find out.

According to this recipe, vinegar diluted with water 1: 1, you need to treat the head, trying not to get on the mucous membrane of the eyes. Wrap the head with polyethylene, hold for 15 minutes, then rinse with water, then comb through the hair and get rid of nits. Repeat the procedure after 5 days to insure against relapse.

How to prevent the occurrence

Pediculosis is an unpleasant phenomenon for both children and their parents. But in such cases there is no need to despair, because the problem is solved. Armed with knowledge of traditional and traditional medicine, as well as patience, you will surely cope with the problem. And in the future, try to follow a couple of simple rules of prevention, namely: