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Here is an example of a realistic head lice prevention
and how a little remedial work can keep it being effective.

From:*****@aol.com
To: info@nitmix.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:06 PM

I have used your NITMIX treatment for a couple of years
with no nits!

Since my children have been back to school I have
religiously as always used the products every day
and sprayed them so they would not get nits.

The last couple of weeks they have been getting nits.
I am beside myself!

I just can’t understand why they are getting them.

I have even added more drops of the NITMIX liquid
into the water but still they get them! Has your
mixture changed because it is not working now?

Please reply to me a.s.a.p.

Regards

Mrs G F

Our answer is to be calm and realistic. Here it is.

Hi There.

Don’t panic!!!!

We need to see exactly what is happening and it
will make sense.

NITMIX disguises human scent making a child of little
or no interest to head lice because they don’t recognise
the scent as food and don’t think they are in a suitable
environment.

Now this work the vast majority of the time reducing
the problem from plague like proportions to a manageable
little problem or no problem at all.

We don’t put up a huge defensive barrier or something
so awful that it can’t be breached because that would
be unpleasant, even harmful. Head lice are just no
worth that kind of action.

So once in a while they will clamber on to your child
and for some reason lay some eggs. It may be because
they are desperate to lay eggs before they die. It may
be aberrant behaviour. It may be shear bad luck. Who knows?

It just means you need to drop back to a bit of combing
to clear out this little crop to get back to a clean
head and get back to prevention.

It’s not a disaster just a hiccup.

If you have some NITMIX Wet Combing Aid or Almond Oil
handy you can just go back to the gently combing techniques
we have previously guided you to use and you will soon
wipe these invaders out and get you back to a peaceful life.

NITMIX is an all natural head lice removal and
prevention programme. available directly from
NITMIX Ltd in the UK.

Here’s a common problem not addressed at all by many
sources of head lice advice.

E-mail from a concerned and worried parent.

I DID MY DAUGHTER’S HAIR AND FOUND NITS IN THE COMB,
BUT NOT WHEN I COMBED MINE. WHEN YOU HAVE HEAD LICE,
DO YOU FEEL LIKE SOMETHING IS CRAWLING AROUND IN YOUR
HAIR? IS IT NORMAL FOR YOUR SCALP TO ITCH ALL THE
TIME OR SOME TIME?

I WENT TO THE DOCTOR ONCE AND THEY SAID THAT THEY
DID NOT SEE ANY THING, BUT THEY ALSO SAID THE SAME
THING ABOUT MY DAUGHTER AND THEY DIDN’T EVEN SEE
THE NITS, BUT I SAW THEM. COULD THIS BE SOMETHING
ELSE BESIDE HEAD LICE? I HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH
THIS FOR ALMOST A YEAR, I WOULD HAVE SEEN SOMETHING
SURELY?

COULD I JUST BE IMAGINING THIS AND THINKING THAT
MY SCALP IS ITCHING AND SOMETHING IS CRAWLING ON
MY SCALP? I WOULD BELIEVE THAT IF I DIDN’T SEE
THOSE NITS, OR THAT’S WHAT I THINK THEY ARE IN
MY CHILD’S HAIR.

PLEASE EMAIL ME BACK IF YOU CAN, IT WOULD BE VERY
WELL APPRECIATED.

“ This situation is very common. You have a healing
process going on where the skin has been broken by
bites and scratches. The final part of the normal
healing process is often very itchy.

You can also have a mild bacterial infection in
scratches that will clear up. A mild medicated
shampoo for dandruff or a Tea Tree shampoo will
speed that up.

You will also have itching from the chemical the
head lice inject into the skin so they can feed.
These set off the classic histamine response that
comes with most insect bites. If this doesn’t
quieten down ask your pharmacist for a mild
anti-histamine like the ones you take for hay
fever and bug bites. That will tell the body it’
time to knock off the itching.

As with other bites the itching doesn’t stop as
soon as the critter is removed. We all know that
mosquito bites itch for days, even weeks, after
the bug has gone. Same for head lice bites.

Believe your eyes. If you cannot find head lice
or eggs using the NITMIX Wet Combing Aid
they are gone. You just have an itchy scalp for
some reason and it should settle down.

All the time you have not been sure you would have
had to guess, now you don’t have to. Perhaps the
certainty will help.

It is also worth noting that itching, and the
scratching that we see as a result, doesn’t start
at the same times as the infestation by head lice.

Humans are not particularly sensitive to individual
head lice bites and it can take SEVERAL WEEKS after
an initial contact with head lice for the-tell tale
sign of scratching to start. By this time several
generations of lice and eggs may be active on the scalp.”

Moral of this tale?

Itching doesn’t mean head lice and head lice doesn’t
mean itching.

Anyone round here not itching just reading that?”

Author John Owen, NITMIX Ltd
Head lice treatment and advice from NITMIX.
The All Natural Head Lice Removal System,
F.D.A Registered too!

This is a short correspondance between NITMIX and
a school nurse charged with updating the schools
approach to the old head lice problem.

Trouble is she is questioning the existing wisdoms
and is having a hard time getting parents to
question what they are doing.

My favourite experssion for this situation is
” When you are in a hole, stop digging!”

But do they? Even when firnished with objective
evidence to help them see beyond repeating
the same stuff that hasn’t worked?

We will see. Here is the exchange as it is occured.

“Hi, John,

This lice treatment is currently circulating though our
schools and I understand even some of our physicians
are giving it to their patients. According to information
on your web site, it won’t work.

1. Soak hair in vinegar for 20 minutes. (1 tsp./ 1 qt. water)
rinse.

2. Comb out with fine tooth comb (to get rid of nits or pick
them out with your fingers.)

3. Rinse.

4. Put olive oil or cooking oil on hair and cover with shower
cap overnight.

5. In morning wash out with shampoo.

6. Repeat in 1 week – Make sure hair, clothes, bedding etc.
is cleaned.

7. Please contact your physician if any problems arise.

Our latest head lice victim is a month old girl. I am running
into a lot of resistance and disbelief when I tell our moms
and our staff it is not necessary to scrub the house, spray
the furniture and wash the bedding.

Instead they should concentrate on heads. They look at me
like I am stupid.

I guess that, with these kinds of attitudes, head lice are
guaranteed a secure future.

Helen S*********, RN

Early Head Start
Health Services Co-ordinator

Hi Helen

Vinegar over 5% acetic acid and 8% formic acid appear
to weaken the bonding of head lice eggs to the hair
shafts, Prevention and treatment of head lice in
children, Mumcuoglu, KY, Paediatric Drugs, 1999
Jul-Sep; 1(3): 211-8.

The dilute solution being proposed will make the
kid’s skin sting and nothing else.

Smothering head lice with oil is very unreliable
as a way of killing them and does nothing to harm
the eggs, head lice can suspend breathing for
several hours.

You will also have no idea if you have succeeded
in killing all the lice by suffocation so you will
still need effective removal procedure.

I don’t recommend any child to be left with a
covering that can withstand oil overnight. If it
keep oil in it will also keep air out. No child
should be left overnight with a suffocation hazard.

An article, covering this bedding thing, from the
James Cook University’s Head Lice Research Group
at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
(Speare R, Cahill, Thomas G, Head Lice on Pillows and
Strategies to make a Small Risk Even Smaller,
International Journal of Dermatology 2003 Aug 42 (8): 626-9 )
concludes that the chance of an individual head lice
transferring to the pillow of an infested child approx. 1 in 1000.

Put another way, you might need to sleep in the same bed
every night for 3 years to be likely to spread your
head lice this way. Possible but not a huge priority.

And the house cleaning nonsense is dealt with very
conclusively.

“14,000 head lice removed from children in a single
day and not one found on the floors of their classrooms”
by Rick Speare of the School of Public Health and
Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville,
Queensland Australia. (AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2002 VOL. 26 NO. 3.

Brutal point

Your parents and physicians are following this advice
and they still have their problem.

We have thousands of customers who took our advice and
read these articles. They don’t have their problem.
See head lice treatment sucess testimonials

Makes you think huh?

Good luck with your task of pushing water uphill against
the wind, we have been doing it for 7 years but it’s fun!

Need any more ammo we will go find some.

Regards

John Owen
NITMIX Ltd
Head lice treatment and advice from NITMIX. The All Natural Head Lice Removal System, F.D.A Registered too!

Oh dear, I spoke too soon in my praise of
Dr Dana Whitten in my Blog a couple of
days ago. No, the good doctor’s article on the
realities of head lice and their treatment
is still a gem but the next article I
received felt like a sock to my stomach.

A single line in an article on head lice
in The Springfield News-Leader, entitled
“When kids get lousy, lice do a number
on parents’ heads, too”
written by Doreen Nagle did an astonishingly
bad deed to loving parents all over America.

This is the short paragraph it appears in-

“The head louse (pediculus humanus capitis)
is a human parasite, and more than 6 million
people get them each year. It’s caused by
not keeping your child’s hair clean enough.”

Parents, how did that make you feel?
Like head lice are your fault?

Like, if only you were better parents this
wouldn’t happen?

The statement above is just plain wrong
and can only feed in to the ignorance and
prejudice surrounding head lice.

Let’s get some clarity here.

Head lice are not caused by anything or
anybody. They are a normal part of the
natural population of this planet.

No one asks, “What causes Giraffes?” Do they? No.
So why state that something causes head lice?
No-one’s actions causes head lice to pop up out
of thin air.

Head lice move from hair strand to hair
strand using curved hooks on their short legs.

When two kids get their heads together when
whispering secrets, sharing a hug or reading
together their hair strands get so close
together that a head louse can catch hold
of a strand on the other kid’s head. Bingo!

A new case of head lice.

Did the cleanliness of the hair of either
child have any influence on this exchange? No.

Did the louse investigate how clean the new
head was before moving on to it? No.

Once on to this new head of hair the louse uses
it’s uniquely adapted hooked legs to hang on tight.

Head lice are perfectly adapted to the shape
and size of human hairs, so much so that they
can only live and thrive amongst the hair of
the human head.

But surely good parents wash their kid’s hair
frequently and the lice would be gone
wouldn’t they? No. Washing hair with shampoo
has no effect on head lice or their eggs
whatsoever.

Head lice can seal up their breathing holes
and hold their breath for up to 30 minutes
and don’t slip or slide off due to the barbs
on those little hooky legs of theirs.
The glue that holds head lice eggs to the
hair shafts is left completely unaffected
by shampoos and soaps.

So washing and scrubbing will only produce
and extremely clean hair that is still
infested with lice and eggs.

In summary, keeping your kids hair clean
has no effect on them getting or not getting
head lice and does nothing towards removing
head lice once they arrive.

Blaming the arrival or presence of head lice
on a lack of cleanliness is irresponsible,
unhelpful and potentially very damaging to
the self-esteem of both parents and children.

Head lice are a normal part of being human,
they come, they go and we just have to deal
with them.

A simple programme of gently removing both
the lice and eggs is all it takes to manage
this problem.

Manually removing lice and eggs needn’t be
very time consuming. Using a gently combination
of ultra fine combs and NITMIX Wet Combing Aid
a head of hair can easily be combed under
10-15 minutes. There is no need to spot
individual lice in the hair because that
will come out along with all sorts of debris
once trapped in the lubricating blend of
Essential Oils.

While I am sure there was never meant to be any
malice in the article bad advice seems to find
a way to get around all on it’s own and is hard
to kill off once it is out there, much like
head lice i’m afraid.

John Owen
NITMIX Ltd
Head lice treatment and advice from NITMIX. The All Natural Head Lice Removal System, F.D.A Registered too!

Yipppppeeeeee!!! At last! After subscribing
to GOOGLE Alerts Service for some time ( you
really should use this) I finally got a head
lice related article that talks real sense!

Award winning local paediatrician
Dr. Dana Whitten contributed an article called
“Stop being picky about nit-picking” to his
local community online newspaper called
The Village Soup Times ( also an award winner!)

And what a cracker of an article it is!!

Pure common sense. What a lucky community they
have up therein Belfast, Maine.

Here is a link to the article in full

Dr Whitten rightly pours cold water on any
need to treat kids with head lice as if they
have some terrible disease and encourages
schools to resist the calls for discriminatory
“No Nits” policies.

Here at NITMIX we have been spreading the
message about the The No Nits Policy and
the No Progress Results for a long while.
It’s nice to find a supporter.

I recommend parents sharing this article with
their schools a.s.a.p!

John Owen
NITMIX Ltd
Head lice treatment and advice from NITMIX. The All Natural Head Lice Removal System, F.D.A Registered too!

(The VillageSoup Times was named Newspaper of
the Year during the Maine Press Association’s
annual Fall Conference Sept. 18 at the
Bar Harbor Regency.)

I think I am about to really blow a gasket.

I don’t want to. I don’t mean to be cruel,
but today I finally got the craziest question
relating to house cleaning and head lice.

I won’t name the sender because I feel deeply
for her. I feel deeply for every mom and dad
like her who has been fed this nonsense advice
about cleaning the house because your kids have
head lice.

Here’s the question I received to day.

” Hi!!!
My friend’s daughter and her have had lice
for awhile and they have been doing everything
to get rude of them. I even got it. I was
wondering what to do to the washing machine
to sanitise it so, it doesn’t come back.
Should I use bleach?
I worried about using the machine until I
use something to make sure they are gone.
Thanks for help!! ”

Bleaching the washing machine? If this kind
of questions wasn’t so heart rending I might
laugh, but I don’t.

You know why I don’t laugh? Because it just
isn’t funny, it’s nearly tragic. Let me Explain.

NITMIX is an international company. We have
sold NITMIX head lice treatment to customers
in over 30 countries. We have 7 years experience
of answering direct questions from anxious parents.

We are not amateurs at this, we know our stuff.
And do you know something? We only get these
crazy questions about wasting time cleaning the
house from America.

Good parents across America are exhausting
themselves washing, Hoovering and scrubbing
their homes for NOTHING!NADDER! ZIP! Zilch!

Head lice are not in your homes, your cars,
your clothes and your toys! They are HEAD LICE.
Not carpet lice or bed lice or toy lice or any
other kind of lice.

Why should you believe me?

Well there is the exact extract from a paper
published in the AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2002 VOL. 26 NO. 3
by Rick Speare of the School of Public Health
and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University,
Townsville, Queensland Australia.

No slouch on the subject of head lice!

Quote ”

Abstract

Background: The control of head lice is
frequently based on perceptions rather
than evidence, as illustrated by the belief
that vacuuming carpets is an essential
component of treating head lice, and the
less common practice of application of
insecticides to floors as an adjunct to
head lice treatment.

Objective:

To

1) Evaluate the importance of floors as a
source of infection for head lice in
primary schools to provide evidence on
which to base decisions about the need
to treat floors.

2) Determine the prevalence of active
pediculosis and average intensity of
infection in primary school children
in Townsville, north Queensland.

Methods:

In Townsville, north Queensland, we examined
preschool and primary classroom floors for
lice by using a filter on a vacuum cleaner
when the children were absent from the rooms.

Active pediculosis was treated, head lice were
collected and counted.

Results:

Of the 2,230 children examined
from 118 classrooms, 466 had head lice, a
prevalence of 20.9%. A total of 14,033
lice were collected from these children
to give an average intensity of infection of 30.1
(95% CI 21.9-38.3) lice per infected child and
129.9 (95% CI 90.7-169.2) lice per infected class.

Of the 118 classrooms, 108 (91.5%) had at least
one child with active pediculosis.

No lice were recovered from the classroom floors.

Conclusion:

Classroom floors are not a risk in the
transmission of head lice and no special
anti-louse measures are required. ”

End of quote.

Now, if head lice can’t shake themselves
free from children charging around in the
classroom what is to suppose they will
suddenly fall off all over your house
and into your furnishings and cars?

Where is the evidence that you should be
Hoovering and scrubbing yourself to a stand still!

It isn’t there! Nor are the head lice!

This is a serious issue. Parents are being
sold chemical sprays to spray in their homes
containing toxic chemicals to treat for
head lice that ARE NOT THERE!

And these companies should know this.

They would if they read articles like this
one in well know medical journals. And if
they aren’t reading them, why aren’t they?

All the time spent scrubbing and cleaning
is wasted time that could be used to quietly
remove head lice and their eggs from the kid’s
hair in just a few minutes every couple of nights.

It really is that simple but I guess that doesn’t
sell more units for the big chemical companies does it?

Read our article called;
“Cleaning the house for head lice?:
Why, oh why, are you doing that?”
and stop wasting your time cleaning the house
for head lice that aren’t there!

Shame on them for spreading this nonsense.

John Owen
NITMIX Ltd
Head lice treatment and advice from NITMIX. The All Natural Head Lice Removal System, F.D.A Registered too!

It is back to school time already!

As past and present customers of NITMIX we
thought you might appreciate a quick reminder of
how to keep head lice at bay this year.

First off, a quick reminder of a few basics

* head lice are normal

* head lice roam around all groups of humans

* no one can stop a head louse clambering on
to your child in school or day-care

* you won’t know the moment it happens

* it probably hasn’t come from where you suspect

* it won’t last forever

* nobody is gonna get hurt by this

Now the good stuff

The No Lice 2 Step!

No it’s not a dance; it’s just a simple
2-step process to keeping head lice at bay.

PREVENT AND REMOVE

1. PREVENT. Head lice clamber onto any head
they can reach. Thhe first thing they need to
do is check out if you smell and taste like food.

If you don’t smell and taste like food head lice
think they are in real trouble and go elsewhere.

To a louse human scent equals FOOD!

Anything else smells like trouble!

So keep that faint aroma of PURE NITMIX in your
kid’s hair to confuse the heck out of any new
visitors this term.

2. REMOVE. Critters come calling all the time
but you won’t get the tell tale signs of
scratching and rashes for weeks.

So don’t wait for the kids to let you know they
have brought more than homework home from school.

Say, once a week, have a look in your kids head
using NITMIX Wet Combing Aid to make sure there
are no little visitors roaming around unseen.

10 minutes of combing will remove any rubbish,
debris or head lice without putting a drop of
poison on your kid’s heads.

How simple can it get? Just two simple steps!

Some of you know I strongly recommend doing a
deal with the kids. Agree a bar of chocolate or
strawberries or money if they sit still for
10 minutes before bath time. It’s a great
investment, I promise you!

They get a treat, you get peace of mind and
nobody gets stressed out!

That’s it, our recommendation for a peaceful,
lice free school year. Don’t let the problem of
head lice creep up on you and don’t let anyone
tell you its anything other than a simple
removal problem.

Top up your bathroom cabinet now and enjoy a
lice free year!

John Owen
NITMIX Ltd
Head lice treatment and advice from NITMIX. The All Natural Head Lice Removal System, F.D.A Registered too!

In my not so humble opinion a Blog without a purpose is about as much use as bicycle to a fish!

So what is this Blog about?

It’s about creating a space where the many thousands of words NITMIX staff create, while assisting parents with the problem of head lice, can be recorded and shared more widely.

Since 1197, when NITMIX was created, thousands of e-mails, letters and articles have been sent, used and posted BUT NOT SHARED! What a waste. Not any longer.

With the help of this funky software all these head lice treatment articles, one to one head lice consultations, and customer care e-mails will be published here in the Blog.

I can feel a competition coming on…… I think we need a name for this resource… The Critter Blog comes to mind! But I bet one of our customers can do better than that. Hmmmm.. prize for the winner maybe?

Anyway, I have to go and learn how to use this stuff now so that I can raid the archive and start loading up some useful head lice advice etc.

Speak to you soon.

John Owen
NITMIX Ltd
Head lice treatment and advice from NITMIX. The All Natural Head Lice Removal System, F.D.A Registered too!