Posts Tagged ‘lice shampoos’
Teen Suffers Horrible Burns as Medicated Lice Shampoo Catches Fire
18 Oct 2020 4:32 pm After coming home from boarding school for Christmas with head lice, Aleema Ali turned to a medicated shampoo to get rid of them. But while she waited the recommended five minutes for the solution to work, she went to take the garbage out in the kitchen. Her mom was cooking…
Read MoreLice Shampoos
When people talk about head lice shampoos, generally what they are talking about is a product that is a shampoo or a cream rinse or a gel or a moose or some other oil type formulation that you mix in with your hair that is used to kill head lice. These products are usually available…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About Over The Counter Lice Shampoos
The most common over-the-counter lice treatment products use pyrethrin, an industrial insecticide used to kill lice. Natural pyrethrin is a derivative of the Chrysanthemum flower. Its synthetic equivalent is permethrin. Together the chemicals are referred to as pyrethroids.There are some 3,500 products that use pyrethroids in varying concentrations, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. These…
Read MoreSeal Beach Sun Article: Time for the new school year and, yikes lice! The answer is in Los Alamitos
Owner-Marlene Weiss, Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) and a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) with over 20 years of healthcare experience Yikes Lice! The Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention (CDC) estimates that nearly 12 million children between the ages of 3 and 11 contract will contract head lice each year. That is one in 5…
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