HEAD LICE--HOME REMEDIES

HEAD LICE--HOME REMEDIES

In this condition there is infestation of the hair with blood-sucking parasites, called as "lice" (pediculus capitis), causing the child to itch uncontrollably along with redness of the scalp. Once they grab a head hold, female lice lay upto ten new eggs daily. This condition is diagnosed by the presence of tiny, white or creamish oval eggs (also called as nits) that are seen attached to the base of the hair strands tightly and these parasites get transmitted easily between the school children. Wet combing with a plastic detection comb for 30 minutes provides an alternative but there is no efficacy in this method. 

SOME HOME REMEDIES 

1. Apply a mixture of garlic paste and limejuice to the hair roots and then wash the hair after two hours.

2. After shampooing, one can use a mixture of equal parts of  vinegar and water to rinse the head. Vinegar helps dissolve the dead nits and wash off their remains and also vinegar makes the hair look thicker and shinier.

3. A paste made out of bitter almonds is applied over the scalp and then washed off after an hour or two.

4. Use coconut oil with a pinch of camphor in it as hair oil. Apply fenugreek (methi) paste as a medicine and wash the hair once a week with very dilute camphor water.

5. Washing the hair with a decoction of the leaves of the Margosa (Neem) tree,prepared by boiling a few leaves in some water will not only kill the lice but will also stop the hair from falling.