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Lice treatment: a new, dry solution
Filed under: Development/Milestones: Babies, Day Care & Education
Now that Melissa Summers is gone, I will take over the mantle of lice queen. . .er, king, here at blogging baby. She sent me a link to this story, which details a fantastic new treatment for head lice. Gone are the days when treating head lice meant application of nasty, wet chemicals. Biologists at the University of Utah have developed a device that blow hot air, killing 80 percent of lice and 98 percent of their eggs. The Lousebuster dries, not fries, the nasty little parasites. Utah biologist Dale Clayton the Lisebuster, which works at a lower temperature than a conventional dryer, and with the use of a special comb, this dries out the lice in only 30 minutes,
Invention of the LouseBuster was accidental, Clayton said. While researching birds with lice parasites, Clayton found that the only way he could keep samples alive was by storing them in a humidifier. Around the same time, his children contracted head lice, which caused him to speculate that if the lice were so hard to keep alive in the dry conditions of the lab, maybe the lice could be dried to their doom.
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11-06-2006 @ 2:45PM
LB said...Sound like this also reinforces the fact that combing is essential to lice and lice egg removal. Too many times I have heard of families that skimp on the combing only to have repreat treatment.
Until this drier dealie hits the market may I suggest the mayo treatment..it worked great for us (leave on at least 2 hours!) and the mayo makes combing easier. It smells like a picnic so get some snax for the kids and beer for the adults.
Good info from the Harvard School of Public Health-
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/headlice.html
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11-06-2006 @ 2:59PM
Lea said...Oh, ya'll, I am dreading this aspect of kindergarten/elementary school. At what age do kids generally start passing around infections?
Yuck!
- L
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11-06-2006 @ 5:29PM
Camille said...The only way we got rid of them and kept them away was from combing. The chemicals did nothing but irritate my daughter's skin.
I gave my daughter a bath every night and used the LiceMeister comb after I put conditioner in her hair for a couple of weeks. We then would comb her hair once a week until school was out, there was a girl in her class that wasn't getting rid of them.
Gah, this is making my head itch.
http://www.headlice.org/
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