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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!