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    Home Remedies for Head Lice

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    Popular and effective tips and herbal remedies to get rid of head lice.

    The head louse is a brownish-grey, wingless insect that lives in human hair. Smaller than a match head, the head louse lays its eggs (called nits) along the base of the hair shaft, close to the scalp. Head lice feed by sucking blood from the scalp. Their bites may itch severely and sometimes become infected. The partly-white, empty egg cases, which look somewhat like dandruff, are carried along the hair as they grow, so that the egg cases are often found farther from the scalp than the lice themselves.
    These insects are easily transmitted from head to head contacts or by sharing combs, brushes, hats or towels. Infestation are common in school children and people who work with them. These insects prefer to lay their eggs on clean hair and skin.
    It is a very common problem and needs special care to clean your hair from this blood sucking insects. Because of concern about the safety of some insecticides, natural methods of eradicating the problem are becoming increasingly popular.

    Prevention

    Inspect your child's hair and scalp regularly for lice and nits, paying particular attention to thr hair line under a fringe, the nape of the neck, and the area above the ears. The best way to do this is to comb your child's hair using the wet comb method and see if any lice fall out. Brush your child'hair when he comes back from the school. By checking regularly you can catch the problem at initial stages and can prevent its wide spread to the whole family.
    Different anti-lice shampoos are available in the market but some of them contain strong chemicals that are very harmful for the hair. Beside this these chemicals may be absorbed into the blood stream and may result in severely harmful effects.

    Treatment of Head Lice

    • If your child gets head lice, he or she should use separate towels, combs and brushes and should keep them away from the belonging of the rest of the family. After treating the head lice, wash your child's clothing, sheets and pillow cases with hot water. Also rinse brushes and towels. Similarly, check all other family members and treat them in the same way, if necessary.
    • One of the most effective for eradicating lice is to comb the hair twice a week with a comb dipped in a glass of warm water which contains 10 drops of tea tree oil.
    • Olive oil is best to repel lice from hair. The method is; take generous amount of olive oil and leave in overnight. Wash out the next morning with your regular shampoo. Repeat this procedure every four days after three weeks. During washing, remove any eggs with your fingernails.
    • Nit combing with Oil treatment; the most popular way of removing head lice is to do thorough combing with a specially designed nit comb after applying any hair oil massage. The common believe is that lice get blind with hair oil and can be easily caught by nit comb.
    • Vinegar is another easy to use and effective remedy for head lice. Its acidic nature is believed to be responsible for its pesticide activity.


    Herbal Remedies for Head Lice

    • Take double-strength tea either from rosemary or lavender. Boil it for about 20 minutes and mix a cup of conditioner. Also mix 10 drops of tea tree oil. Now use it as a rinse after shampooing.
    • Geranium, lavender, eucalyptus and lemon oil are excellent lice deterrents. Add two drops of eucalyptus and one drop each of lavender and geranium oil to shampoo. After shampooing your hair, add two drops of any of these oils to conditioner and use it as final hair rinse.
    • Tea tree oil is very effective lice repellent. It also gives shine to the hair and may be used as hair conditioner and for alleviating scalp irritation.
    • Tara mira oil expressed from the seeds of Eruca sativa, is another well known herbal remedy for head lice particularly in South Asian countries. The oil is extremely irritating to the scalp and skin and is believed to relieve head lice and dandruff. To get rid of head lice the oil is massaged on the scalp and hair and left for 1 to 2 hours or sometimes over night before shampooing.
      However, it may cause allergic reactions in some people so be careful.


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