Treatments for lice on children

Posted on July 21, 2013 by john in Daily health tips for kids

Treatment to remove nits and lice begin to detect our child is infested. Then we have to apply the most appropriate procedure, such as using the nit comb, applying some cream or lotion lice, make extreme rinsed with vinegar and cleaning items that have been in contact with the child’s head.
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Lice treatment lice in children

Lice sometimes disappear for a week and reappear the following: a cycle that has no end! Many mothers exhausted and desperate, have tried all possible solutions: natural herbal treatments vinegar, permethrin lotions, electric combs … and nothing.

Completely eradicate lice from the head of children is hard work for most mothers with school-age children. Furthermore, in recent years lice have become increasingly resistant to treatments result of mutations have been experiencing, as recently observed by researchers at the University of Massachusetts.

Many children begin to feel a tingling in your head, like a slight tingling and start to scratch my head. This is the first warning sign. But what should we do?

In this article on lice treatments:

Types of treatments to remove lice in children

Lice treatment step by step

How different objects disinfect lice?

Types of treatments to remove lice in children

The first thing parents should do is make sure that the child has lice or nits checking the head, ears and neck, which are the preferred parts by lice.

If we find that the child is also infested scalp we must review the rest of the family or who have been in close contact with our son, for example cousins ​​or friends.

So that, once detected the problem, the next step is to apply an appropriate treatment for each case.
Lice treatment for children under two years

Treatment for children under two years is different than treatment for older children. For younger children the solution is very simple. Consists arm ourselves with patience and spend a nit or nit, a special comb very tight barbed by the scalp every 3 or 4 days to two weeks.

We must not use louse, any lotion or cream.
Lice treatment for children over two years

The most common treatment for children over two years is to apply a cream or lotion with 1% permethrin, which is often more effective than shampoos pesticides. In fact, treatments with permethrin kill the lice on contact with the product.

It is advisable to consult the doctor before using any product, especially if your child has allergies, dermatitis, etc..
Lice treatment step by step

If we choose the lotion based treatment should be applied to dry hair. In contrast to the creams should first wash the child’s hair. We apply the product (lotion or cream) generously all over the head, insisting on the back of the neck and behind the ears, which are usually housed nits.

Then we wait for the time recommended in the prospectus, which may be about 15 or 30 minutes, and cover the child’s head only if indicated in the treatment. In case you need to cover the child’s head must use plastic caps instead of towels because they absorb the product and do their effect on hair. After applying the product must let the hair air dry without using hair dryer.

During the final rinse can also dilute one part vinegar to two parts water as the vinegar makes the nits come off the hair. After treatment application, with bleached hair and still wet, we must remove the lice and nits to prevent reinfestation. We will use the nit comb or nit comb.

We have a good nit comb from the roots to the ends of the hair and the whole head in different directions. After each pass withdraw lice and nits that have been caught in the teeth of the nit comb using a tissue. Finally, we leave the nit comb in hot water to clean it thoroughly.

After applying the treatment head should be reviewed and extract nits possible for two weeks, once or twice daily. If lice reappear repeat the same treatment should last seven to ten days.

How different objects disinfect lice?

Combs, brushes, lendreras, forks, gums and hair fasteners must be cleansed with the same product or lice dip them in boiling water for one hour.

It is also advisable to wash clothes, hats, towels, sheets, pillowcases, coats or stuffed animals that had been in contact with the child’s head and neck with very hot water, which can easily kill parasites.

Items that can not we put them in hot sealed plastic bag for two weeks. While we also aspire car seats, car seats or sofas that have been in contact with the infested heads of children.