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| Reference #: | 855 |
| Submit Date: | 26 Sep 2006 |
| Browse Category: | lice |
| Author: | none |
| Email Address: | none |
| Treatment used: | alcohol |
| You can buy this remedy at: | anywhere |
| Remedy will cost you: | unknown |
| Country of Remedy: | USA |
| Remedy Source: | folklore |
| More Links about this Remedy: | none |
| # Comments posted to this remedy: | 2 |
| Complaints Reported: | 2 |
| # of times remedy read: | 14,885 |
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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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What I did to kill them was douse my hair/head with alcohol and then I put a
plastic bag over my head for like an hour. . . that did it for me. ----------------- BE VERY CAREFUL with putting flamable liquids on your body, especially in your hair. You could be too close to a flame, such as a candle, or pilot light in your stove or water heater, or a lighter or match or cigarette or other smoking substance. Even after you think you have washed the flamable liquid out of your hair, enough can still remain in there so that, when you are near a flame (such as at a place where people are smoking and lighting things), it can still ignite. And then you will be in the emergency room. Short hair is very easy to take care of. ---------------- Wintergreen alcohol is the cure I've heard of. Give the head a good soaking and then tie everything up in a plastic bag to prevent evaporation. Keep it on for 4 or 5 hours, then rinse rinse rinse. Smearing a child's head with mayonaise, vaseline, can suffocate the lice but is not 100% effective Over the counter products like Nix and Rid were effective 20 years ago but lice have adapted. Nix which has permethrin in it is more effecitve than Rid which has pyrethin in it. Ovid a prescription drug contains malathion which kills 100% of lice and 98% of nits. It has a odor can cause headaches and nausea and is flamable. Ovid stays on the head for 8 to 12 hours and the child needs to stay clear of anything that can ignite a flame. |
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Comment: Don't use alcohol |
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| Submit Date: | 26 Sep 2006 |
| Author: | none |
| Email Address: | none |
| More Links about this Remedy: | none |
anyway, we have tried the alcohol and plastic bag trip on several dozen folks at rainbow gatherings who hated the idea of using the chemicals we were using at the time (we have since found some alternatives to the chemicals, depending upon the seriousness of the particular case) and folks it dont work!!! if you take lice and alcohol and put em all in a glass, the bugs just swim around and play waterpolo. that is an old hippie tale with a success rate of about 1 person out of 1000. or thereabouts. |
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Comment: RE:Don't use alcohol |
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| Submit Date: | 14 Apr 2008 |
| Author: | none |
| Email Address: | none |
| More Links about this Remedy: | none |
What are you talking about? it doesn't work? I just dipped a louse in alcohol and set it on my desk. It hasn't moved in five minutes. |