Treatment for Child’s Head Lice

May 22, 2008 by Tammy

It’s one of the easiest ways to realize that school is back in session. It is the thing that can drive both mothers and fathers crazy.

It is head lice.

Children come home from school with head lice infestation and after an aggressive round of treatment seem to better.

But a few weeks later, guess what, the head lice have returned along with another round of treatment. And so the saga that goes.

While there are many treatments on the market today known to successfully fight head lice infestations there are also some alternative medications that seem to work as well.

So you have the option of either getting a prescription strength medication, an over-the-counter medication, or researching and deciding on an alternative medicine for head lice treatment to so that you can see what might work best for your child.

While all of these treatments seem to be basic and known success stories of head lice treatment there is one somewhat controversial and perhaps strange, head lice treatment and that is the head lice treatment known as completely shaving your child’s head.

What on earth! Have you ever heard of completely shaving head to treat head lice? For those with a horrific infestations and seemingly resistant to less extreme treatments, shaving the head might not seem like a bad idea after all.

Using a pair of hair clippers and a razor simply begin by using the clippers to cut your hair down to an extremely short style, and then use a razor to shave your head and neck so that there is absolutely no hair left on the head. This hair lice treatment seems to work because as you shave your head completely not only will you be removing all of the hair but you will also be removing any lice that still dare to remain embedded on the hair shaft.

Once you have shaved your head completely use shampoo rubbed thoroughly into the scalp and allow it to stand there for a few minutes before washing it off so that when you rinse the shampoo off, any loose hairs as well as any remaining lice that might be attached to dead skin on the scalp can be washed down the drain. Repeat the scalp shampoo until you feel you have completely eliminated all hairs from your head.

Yes, this treatment can certainly sound quite radical, particularly for women with long beautiful hair. Also those in the medical community are not proponents of this radical treatment, choosing to remain with the more mainstream treatment methods for the elimination of lice infestations.

In fact it seems that the bald look is in! So maybe this treatment for head lice isn’t such a bad idea after all.

The head lice treatment may be a bit controversial; however, it may not be that much longer before you see it’s a proven treatment in the battle against head lice infestation. Strange, perhaps. But does it work? It sure does seem so.