Why Are We Still Trying To Kill
Head Lice Anyway?

Myth #2 When Will We Realize Killing Head Lice Isn’t The Answer!

Think back for a moment to the day you brought your newborn bundle of joy home for the first time. The nursery was just perfect brand new freshly laundered bedding in the crib, soothing music, soft colors on the walls.

You wouldn’t consider going into that room and blasting the sheets, walls, floors, and mattress with poisonous sprays or pouring harsh, poisonous shampoos on that delicate little head, would you?

But that’s how we deal with head lice. External pressures force that solution upon us.

In a sense, when it comes to head lice, we’ve not made much progress. It’s like we’re still back in the 60’s, a time when we believed science was the answer to all our troubles. Back then we needed no proof that the miracle cures created by trustworthy scientists were safe and effective. But times have changed and as a society we’re very much concerned with the effects harsh chemicals and pesticides have on our lives, homes, and gardens. And we demand safer alternatives.

Well guess what? You can remedy the head lice problem by combing. When done right, one pass of a comb will remove large quantities of lice all at once. You don’t have to pick them out one-by-one; just comb and remove. Dry combing won’t work, but you’ll no longer need to use messy extras like mayonnaise or Vaseline. Those ingredients take care of only part of the problem. Here’s what you do instead.

You start by actually identifying a lice infestation. Don’t suspect one because your kids complain of itchy heads and don’t mistake dandruff or dirt for evidence of head lice. You need real proof.

From all my years of experience, I’ve come to realize that visual inspections produce the most unreliable results. Lice are too tiny, they move too quickly, they hide from the light and they’re easily misidentified.

In fact, in an experiment conducted by Belgian scientist Jan der Maesener in which parents visually inspected their children’s heads for lice, one out of 10 parents determined lice were not present when they actually were and one-third of the parents who were convinced lice were present were actually wrong. Another study conducted in Israel found that when parents used combs to check for lice, accurate diagnosis of lice increased fourfold. And, lice were identified in half the amount of time that it took parents who relied merely on visual examination.

What’s the message? Don’t treat for head lice until you’re sure you’ve got a problem!

All of us at NITMIX have focused our efforts on enhancing the wet combing method of lice identification and removal and on making the process more tolerable to both parents and children. These efforts have produced NITMIX Wet Combing Aid which consists of a sweet almond oil base blended with essential oils. The end result is a lice treatment parents can rely on.

What makes the NITMIX solution so perfect is the carefully blended combination of mild essential oils in the sweet almond oil base that when applied, literally stops lice in their tracks. The oils keep the comb’s teeth lubricated too making combing tangle-free and easy. That’s the secret to success!

When thicker products are used such as conditioners or mayonnaise, the coating actually causes lice and eggs to become almost glued to the hair strands making removal extremely difficult. Parents are able to free the bigger lice, but they leave behind the smaller ones that are hardly visible in the glue-like substance. So the problem exists.

Another benefit of our method is that it’s much quicker. You simply massage the oils into the scalp and then the comb through from root to ends, removing those pests all along the way. You don’t have to spend time dividing hair into sections so you can work section-by-section like you do with other products. You don’t have to waste time nit-picking one at a time either. All you do is comb out newly-hatched nits and you’re through.

As you comb the essential oil blend through your child’s hair, hair which you thought was clean, with every stroke you’ll drag out all sorts of debris besides lice including skin flakes, dandruff, cradle cap, and other airborne particles.

If you really want to see the extent of the lice infestation, comb a section and then wipe the comb against a tissue. You’ll see the big lice but you’ll also ones that are no bigger than different colored grains of sand. Most parents are amazed by what they see and it’s then that they realize that all along, they’ve been searching for the wrong things.

Combing everything out the big lice and the small as well as the egg sacs is the only way you’ll truly eliminate the entire head lice population. And it’s the only way to end up with hair that’s clean, healthy, and most importantly, lice-free.

Our solution has helped comb the heads of children with every type of hair including African-American curls, Shirley-Temple type curls and even the thick, rich curls found on Hispanic heads. If you make just this one simple improvement to your combing technique you’ll be greatly rewarded. Believe it because it’s true!

If you don’t believe me, then you can click on this link to http://www.nitmix.com where you can read real stories from parents who have actually tried our solution.

The next myth we unravel surrounds the immature lice we like to call the Stragglers. Myth #3