PEDICULOSIS NATURAL TREATMENT - CHILDREN

The lice is a parasitic insect that feeds itself on the blood that sucks of the hairy leather. It lives around 40 days in the head and survives between 12 and 24 hours outside his habitat. It is located generally behind the ears and of the nape of the neck. It puts 55 eggs throughout his life, commonly called liendres, that it fixes firmly to the hair with a cement that it avoids that they follow with facility.

Forms of contagion pediculosis
By contact of head to head or with contaminated objects, like pillows, hats or brushes of hairs.

Symptoms
• White points (nits) stuck in the hair, near the hairy leather and that costs    to give off them.
• Scratching and eccema produced by the punctures of the lice.

Treatment of pediculosis
Once confirmed the presence of lice by means of the revision of the head, the doctor will recommend products of free sale to extract them. Due to the continuous and/or bad use of these products, the lice have developed a resistance the same. If the adult knows to detect them, the intervention of the doctor is not necessary. It will be enough with consulting to the phamacist what remedy to him to buy. Several presentations in the form of lotion, champú exist and even hair conditioner. It is essential the extraction of nits and parasites in manual way or with a fine comb of daily way until they disappear.

It remembers to clean or the comb after his use so that liendre is not any or louse.

Natural treatment
• Green clay, to throw several spoonfuls of this clay in a container with    water and to mix until obtaining a thick champú, to which we will add 3    drops of thyme in essence. To wash the clay head once mixed with the    champú of the boy or another one of neutral type.
• Bones of avocado, to boil several bones of avocado and a small branch    of robust in a liter of water. To apply on the head the resulting liquid as if    outside a lotion, after washing the head.
• Vinegar and water; to fill ½ water glass and another one ½ of vinegar to    mix it well, to apply on the clean and humid hair realising massages. Soon    to comb intensely.

Recommendations
• If the small one is in scholastic age, I reviewed it periodically. The    educative establishments thus also as the colonies of vacations are    inexorable sources of contagion.
• It asks in the school that takes measures from prevention, for example,    that reviews the long cushions where the small ones rest or sleep the    rest.
• If the child is smaller to two years, consults with the paediatrician what    product to use. Some are very strong for small children and can    generate toxicity.
• It reviews to all the members of the family if it detects to some with lice.
• A lotion with bitter Cuassia (bitter wood), or drops of essential oil of the    Melaleuca plant alternifolia (cayeput) in the fine comb or within the    champú, can be a good natural antiseptic to use like preventive.
• To wash the hair with vinegar also serves to drive away these parasites.
• Not to go to the school during a pair of days to avoid the contagion of    the companions.
• To eliminate liendres with the help of a brush of very fine bristles. To    pass it during 10 minutes.
• To disinfect clothes, towels and combs with very hot water and soap    during 20 minutes.

Avoid
• The children who have lice do not have to share pillows, hats, brushes    and combs of hair.