4 Teacher Tips to Fight Lice.
It is not uncommon for lice to attack again in the middle of the school year!
And posters are popping up again on the doors of all the schools: Lice alert!
As a worker in schools, this lice problem is part of my daily life.
Over the years, I have learned 4 effective tips to fight lice without buying any pharmacy products.
Louse portrait
He likes to live in the cozy nest of hair, warmed by the warmth of the skin. For food, it stings the skin to collect a very small amount of blood.
Clinging to the hair with its paws, it lives about a month, but quickly dies when it is no longer on its head. His female lays a hundred eggs, the “nits, which then attach to the base of the hair and then hatch after 7 to 10 days.
They do not transmit any disease and have no negative health effects other than causing itching.
Nits are white or gray dots, which could be mistaken for dandruff, but they come off much harder.
It should be noted that the presence of lice in the hair has nothing to do with the lack of hygiene A person who shampooes twice a week can carry lice just as much as someone who washes their hair once a month.
How to detect them?
First you must see them, which is not obvious: to check for the presence of lice, comb the hair strand by strand, over a white cloth or paper, with a special fine lice comb: the lice fall out.
How to remove them?
There are several products in pharmacies:
Classic products. Pyréflor, Prioderm, Para Plus, Item, Nix, Pouxit: they are effective in one or two applications, but rather contraindicated in children under 2 years old. A new range, without toxic products, kills lice by suffocating them.
The sweetest. Same principle for Paranix, No more lice and Biostop, which also suffocate lice with natural oils, in one, two or three applications.
My natural tips
In addition to the price of these products sold in the trade, it must be admitted that their smell and their composition do not make you want to use them. So I found remedies that were much more natural and just as effective.
1. Mayonnaise : just massage the scalp with mayonnaise (homemade of course), then leave for 2 hours. Then I comb and shampoo as usual. Lice and nits are eliminated.
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2. The onion: onion juice contains sulfur, which lice will not like at all! I squeeze one or more onions to get juice, with which I massage the scalp. I leave on for 3 hours then I shampoo. I start again 3 days in a row to be sure of the result.
3. The oil / vinegar mixture : I mix oil and vinegar in a bowl in equal quantities, then I rub all the dry hair, which I then protect in a towel. After 15 min, I comb the hair and shampoo.
4. Baking soda : yes, another magical effect of the famous baking soda! Distribute it over all the hair (protect the eyes with a towel) then massage for at least 5 minutes and wash as usual.
Bonus tip
> Avoid the hair dryer because lice love heat!
> To eliminate the lice from the cuddly toy, put it in the freezer for 8 hours.
Is there a prevention?
You can also try to prevent lice from settling: plant essences, lavender essential oil for example, or oregano essential oil.
These products have not been the subject of scientific studies but it is worth giving them a try to form your opinion. Products sold in pharmacies as repellents do not have no demonstrated effectiveness and are therefore not recommended.
Warning !
The child carrying lice or nits can be excluded from school for a maximum period of 8 days at the initiative of the “school medicine”: he can return to school as soon as a doctor has noticed that treatment has been put in place.
This possibility of spreading is not often used in schools, but anyway it is better to try to limit quickly the tendency of the lice to "colonize" the other children if yours carries it.
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