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Wet-combing is one way – but it takes dedication
A head louse. You have to kill them – they won’t go away on their own. Photograph: John Forsdyke/Getty Images/Photolibrary RM
If you have school age children then, as night follows day, you will get head lice. These disgusting little parasites have been drinking the blood from our scalps since time began, so they deserve some respect. But you still have to kill them as they won’t go away on their own.
✤ Lice are transmitted when your little darling puts his or her head next to someone else’s little darling. Girls are more likely to get head lice because they snuggle up to each other more. The cleanliness of hair is irrelevant and lice can’t infect you from pillows or towels.
✤ Don’t treat the lice unless you see a live one. Eggs do not count because you can’t kill them. But always treat the lice unless you want to become the most hated parent in the playground.
✤ You can remove lice by wet combing using a fine-toothed comb but it takes dedication. You must spend half an hour doing it every third or fourth day for two weeks. The BMJ’s clinical evidence says that one study found that six in 10 people who did this got rid of all their lice after 15 days.
✤ My family favourite is a treatment called dimeticone (trade name Hedrin), which is not an insecticide, although we have nothing against them. Made from silicone, it coats and drowns the pesky lice so they can’t become resistant to it – as they can with insecticides. You need to carry out two treatments (to kill the second batch of lice that hatch after a week) but it doesn’t smell too bad and leaves your hair lovely and glossy…. Continue Reading
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