Advice that wastes your time when treating head lice.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007Hate the description “Busy Mum”? Ever met a mum that wasn’t busy!
So if your child happens to get a case of head lice that is one more task for you to deal with. Now, imagine that you get advice the following advice on this new problem from a, so called, expert-
“To kill lice and nits, machine wash all washable clothing and bed linens that the infested person wore or used during the 2 days before treatment. Use the hot water (130°F) cycle. Dry laundry using high heat for at least 20 minutes.”
And then they add-
“Dry clean clothing that is not washable, (coats, hats, scarves, etc.)”
Oops, that just added a ton of work to you day didn’t it! And the cost will be phenomenal.
Boy you must be able to see those head lice crawling about all over the place, right? Wrong!
Go on, have a look for yourself. Find me a head louse in your home. Please, before you commit to all that work just take a real close look and see if you can find just one head louse off a head. Should be easy if all those web sites tell you to clean and hoover and scrub them away shouldn’t it.
I tell you what, if you have a library near you, especially a medical library, why not ask the librarian to do a literature search for you. Ask them to match head lice and environment and see what they come up with. Might take them a day or two but they love a challenge.
Let’s talk again once you have the results of this little test.