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Home Remedies for Removing Head Lice
Head Lice are ectoparasites that exist on human hair. These are considered to be an object of ridicule to the person who has them. Some people suffer from infestations of lice on their heads during some seasons of the year, while they may die out in other seasons.
Lice can make the roots of the hair weaker and eventually lead to hair loss. In extreme cases, lice can also cause fevers in the person who has them. For this reason, it is necessary to get rid of head lice quickly and effectively.
Home Remedies for Head Lice
Head lice have been traditionally tackled with the help of several home remedies. The following are some very effective ways to get rid of a head lice problem.
Extract the juice of an onion in a small bowl. Apply this onion juice in the scalp of the head, massaging slowly at the hair roots. Let this juice remain in the hair for three to four hours. The pungent sulfur content of the onion juice will kill the parasites in the hair. Then have a good head bath to remove the dead lice from the scalp. Do this for three continuous days, since the nits (lice eggs) will not go in the first treatment. This is one of the useful home remedies for head lice.
Take a raw custard apple. Grind it into powder, with the seeds. You will need a heavy duty mixer grinder for this. Keep this powder stored in an airtight box. In the night before going to bed, apply this powder on the scalp, and tie your head with a cloth bandage. This will assuredly eliminate the lice and nits from the head. In the morning have a good bath to wash away the lice. This is one of the effective home remedy for head lice.
Head lice remedy - Prepare a fine paste of some custard apple that has been ground before, in an adequate amount of water. Apply this on the scalp and leave it overnight. Then, in the morning, wash the hair with a good shampoo. This will not only clear the lice and the nits from the head; it will also keep dandruff away.
Another good home remedy for head lice is to take six teaspoonfuls of clear water and two teaspoonfuls of vinegar. Mix these together. In the night, before going to sleep, immerse a wad of cotton in it, and apply this very nicely in the hair, working more at the roots. Then tie the head with a cloth bandage and go to sleep. Do this twice in a week. This will completely remove the lice from the scalp, and even deter the formation of dandruff.
Chop an apple into small pieces. Then apply these pieces into the scalp with a strong massaging action. Continue the massage for about 20 to 25 minutes. Do this once in a day for three days. This will ensure the complete elimination of lice from the hair. This is an effective head lice remedy.
Grind a garlic clove to fine paste and mix it in some lemon juice. Massage this mixture into the head in the night before going to sleep. In the morning, have a good head bath. Wash the hair thoroughly. The pungent chemicals in the garlic will kill the lice overnight, and the morning bath will remove their dead bodies from the hair. This remedy must be continued for four to five days. The lice will completely be gone from the scalp. This is one of the important natural remedy for head lice.
Take some freshly extracted coconut oil. Add some powder of the camphor in this oil. Apply this on the head every night while retiring. Wash your hair with a good quality shampoo in the morning. Continue this remedy for four days. This is one of the best home remedies for head lice.
Head lice cure - Grind the seed of a shareefa and apply it on the scalp. Keep it on the head for two hours. Then wash the scalp. This will certainly provide relief from the lice.
Keep three to four leaves of the neem tree in about 100 milliliters of coconut oil in a glass bottle. Keep the bottle covered so that the essences of the neem leaves get properly exuded in the coconut oil. Apply this oil on the scalp on a regular basis and then comb your hair with a strong comb (whose teeth are close together). The need extract will help to destroy the lice and the combing will remove the nits and dead lice from the hair. Remember that this comb must not be used by anyone else, or there is a chance they too will get infected. This is one of the useful head lice treatment.
Take some camphor extract, mix it in oil and apply it in your hair. This is a good remedy to kill the lice. After that have a good bath (shampoo your hair). This will remove the residues of the lice from the hair. This is one of the important head lice for home remedies.
Head lice infestation is a problem that occurs due to lack of hygiene on the part of the person. The following things must be done to keep the head clean and to prevent an infestation of lice in it:-
(i) Wash your hair everyday. You may shampoo it once in three days, but be sure to pass water through the hair daily. While washing the hair, massage at the roots of the hair, and not at the tips of the hair. That serves no purpose.
(ii) After your bath, oil the hair. Again, the oil must be applied on the scalp more.
(iii) Do not share combs, caps, hats, hairbrushes and any other kind of things used for the hair with anyone else.
(iv) Always wash your hair after you return home from a long journey where you have been in contact with crowded places.
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it really helps i used to have a lot of head lice and now am free from them forever!
generic listerine rinse leave in for half hour before rinsing and combing which yeilded the bigger things (yuck), then because i did not have the denorex with salycic acid, used an acne face wash with same ingredients mixed half and half. lathered and left that in for half hour, rinsed and combed (all large lice gone by then with empty sacs breaking down). warmed some coconut oil with essential oil of rosemary, cinnamin, peppermint and tea tree, bagged the head & let sit for half hour before combing and rinsing and the smallest little nits came out.
gently shared with parents what happened and we are going to work as a team but next time i am going to call it beauty night for the girls so as to combat any feeling of uncleaness or stigma.
Apply it on the roots of the hair.Leave it for 30 mins. It will attack their nerves system(Thats what i heard, not sure) and make them feel dizzy. So that it will not move. And then wash the hair with water. And then using a "METAL COMB" clean the hair. Almost all lice and nits will come out.
Repeat it again after a week to kill the remaining nits.
I tried it for my 5 yr old daughter.AND IT WORKED!!!
I tried it on my daughter yesterday. She didn't want to comb anything out yet. Let's see if it works.
put the tea tree oil in my children's hair. I have
1 parent who suggest putting it directly onto the hair and massage for 1/2hr. And another said to dilute with water. Which is the safest route ? It seems like this is some toxic substance. Please help
I am about to try the Olive Oil as recommended here although I did find it interesting that Tina Nichols (post # 16) mentioned that they do not like coconut powder so will keep coconut milk in mind. Olive Oil is a natural moisturiser so that is why some people have commented on how nice their children's hair was after treating using Olive Oil.
Will let you know how we go.
keep that in mind if you think you cannot get rid of those little blighters, and definitely worth doing Olive Oil.
i used nix at 5am this morning (i am a night owl) and was paranoid and unsatisfied so i looked up home remedies. since 5am, i have used listerine twice in conjunction with dawn soap and i am sitting with my second "lice bomb" (see #14) on my head. (my hair is wrapped in several layers of saran wrap and then a towel.)
i just want to say how genuinely amazed i am at this lice bomb. i left the first one on for several hours while trying to sleep and then combed my hair with a clean lice comb with the mess still in my hair. i was able to remove a ton of them - all dead. i had a lot of difficulties combing on my own and couldn't finish my whole head. this is why i have done a second lice bomb. my dad is going to help me comb the rest out when he comes home from work at 230 and i intend to post here with results.
my boyfriend takes garlic supplements every day and never gets bitten by mosquitos while i do not take the pills and am constantly bitten. i am wondering if it would be at all possible that it would have the same effect with lice since both pests thrive on blood.
if anyone knows what garlic might do, please do post below.
if there is anything else i can do since i have so few days to completely eradicate this infestation, please also post below.
this website has really helped, i will pass it on to everyone i know!
Hope this helps
My daughter had lice 3 times this school year. I believe it is finally gone. The over the counter stuff does NOT kill the eggs. If it did, why would u have to retreat the hair in 7 to 10 days.
First, when we found the lice I vacuumed her hair. I hate seeing those bugs and this gets rid of the adult lice. I put vinegar on her hair for 20 minutes than shampooed. We than used vegetable oil and the METAL lice combs. - - as mentioned by another user, the plastic combs don't work- - I had a bucket with clorox water that I soaked our brushes in. I dipped paper towels in the bucket and used the towels to clean the metal comb as I brushed the hair. It took almost an hour to brush every strand of hair. She shampooed her hair again. I sprayed her scalp with a mixture of water and white vinegar. She said the vinegar felt good. She slept with the vinegar on her hair. We washed her hair again before school. When she came home we did it all over again. The oil, the brushing, and vinegar on the roots before bed.
Everyday I washed the bed clothes, towels, book bag, jacket, and hair brushes. I put the pillows in the dryer on high for an hour everyday. The first day I washed the pillows in hot clorox water.
I checked our poodle with the metal combs, and nothing.
I made a mixture of Tea Tree Oil and water that I sprayed on the couch and chairs. I vacuumed them when they were dry. Daily
Its been two weeks and I believe we are lice free. It is a real pain in the butt, but you have to put oil in the hair and comb, comb, comb.
Anything that the hair touches, clean it. Cell phones, head phones, pillows, jackets, towels, brushes, car seats, hair clips, book bags, purses, etc.
* My daughter has long hair. Her head was not itchy, but her back was *
* If the hair is hard to comb, wet it and add a bit more oil. Keep a spray bottle handy and wet sections of hair as u r combing *
The nits are about the size of a pin head, they look like dots with a tail to me. They don't run like the adults do, If they freak you out, try vacuuming the adults out of the hair with your hose attachment.
Good luck and remember... This too shall pass.
Home remedy is useful but you need a little information and useful science to help in making chioces people.
1. acid of any kind (mild and fresh, from plant extracts like onion,lemon,garlic, also vinagars etc.,) helps to loosen the glue the nits are attached to hair follicle with and to degenerate the egg casing. Time and concentration of product are the key factors obviously. Personal preferance to scent, availibity and cost are actually not as important as delivery and reapplication procedures.
2. oils are not all the same, oils that are naturally presssed, or essential oils are more potent, they have acidic properties that produce more effectiveness then just "smothering" the parasite, they actually kill the parasite over time and if done repeatedly are effective agents to stop infestations on the scalp. Oils that are processed may still smother and weaken the egg caseings but do not actually kill the parasite, just place it in a dormant phase, the same as water, the only differance you see is lack of movement, which is understandable considering the meduim in which the parasite is within at the time of removal. So to disintegrate or to dormant is your chioce with oils. I choose disintegrate, it works even while it's being washed out!
3. Use of alcohol based/or bleach based products is just unwise, unhealthy, VERY ignorant. Not made to work with your hair follicle, not good for your scalp, not good for your skin, period. Do not use!
4. a note; Peroxcide will change the color of your hair, weaken the hair follicle, but also disinfects the skin. Depending on the level of infestation/ treatment peroxcide is not dangerous as longs as it is done with precision and carefully. Better for cleaning the scalp after repeatedly oiling or cleansing with several substances.
5. With delicate hair follicles use lighter treatments and proceed to stronger doses as effectiveness is shown. When hair is thick and infestion is heavy then start with a meduim dose of proposed hair remedy.
6.Make a list of the remedies you have ingrediants for, and dose options from the sites you find, adverage the doses out, think about your hair, consider your options, make a few doses, and choose the least messy/most effective option.
7. remember, what makes a home remedy vs. a pharmacy option is not effectivness, or use, but rather wording and control groups. Use common sense and caution when trying anything proposed by outside sources!
*** Most important though, IF your child has lice inform their friends, the school, and your local health nurse. If you keep it a secret the break out will be much worse, and honestly those who think its a "dirty" thing are just plain ignorant and you shouldn't care what they think.
im just hopin that theres no more crawlers lying in wait around the house.
Thanks in advance. x
it has two steps...
the first is to put on essential oils of lavender,citronella, and manuka in an olive oil base, put it all over dry hair and leave in as long as possible ideally overnight in a shower cap. then use a fine tooth comb and comb out dead lice. put shampoo onto dry hair and massage then rinse to remove oil.
step two contains apple cider vinegar with essential oils of thyme, lavender and peppermint - you add this to water to dilute then soak your hair all over in it and leave it in, now you use the comb again and get all the dead eggs.
the lady at the health shop also told me once i have done this to rinse my hair with soda water and this will explode any eggs that maybe left...
Hope this helps and good luck :)
Ps. this remedy worked for me and my son, i bought it in a two pack in Auckland NZ for $30. It says that this has been specifically researched for their ability to eradicate and prevent head lice. www.holistichair.co.nz
And passing water through it will not do a single thing.
So you are wrong.
Believe me i am a cosmetology student and we had to learn all about what can and cannot happen with any type of Lice. You are giving false information.
Make sure to notify your childs school and any friends that they may have been in contact with. Six children were infected with lice in the AM kindergarten class and we were never notified. My daughter is in the PM class but also gets a little extra help and is in with a few of the AM children, which were the ones who ended up having the lice.
What a nightmare this has been! Best wishes : )
Please remove this offensive and untrue assertion from your site!
- Annah. o_O
Now. As an experiment, I left the oil on my own hair for almost 4 hours (I could tolerate it longer than the kids :P) I have combed through my hair and there is not one single thing coming out in the comb. No bugs, no eggs, hell, no even any white dandruff-y skin flakes.
I wont know fir sure for a few more days if this attempt was successful, but I'll let you guys know!
Forgot to add. I tied plastic bags on our heads to keep the oil from running and I rinsed with dishsoap (a cheap brand) then followed with a thorough shampooing and conditioning. Hope this helps.