Question:
I'm still wrestling with these damn things. I pulled a live bug off my
daughter tonight, after treating her head with this stuff called Lavoggio, an
herbal head lice solution. I'd added quite a bit of the Tea Tree Oil to the
stuff, but still I found a live bug (NO others, though, we may be getting
there,
it was the one and only bug I found). But so I got this live bug off her, and
I put it in a little container, and put a drop of straight Tea Tree Oil on it,
and
it crawled around for awhile, and then died. I'm just wondering if there's
any danger in slathering this stuff on her head straight, leaving it on for
maybe
10 or 15 minutes? I'll wait a few days, then do it again. Think this is OK?
Reading about it it seems it's a safe thing, and people do put it on wounds
and burns, straight.
Answer:
During the summer the local primary school had a real problem with head
lice. The cure I found was to use 1 cup of olive oil(or any other light
base oil) mixed with 10 drops tea tree oil(this treats a few heads).
leave on the head for at least half an hour then comb with a fine tooth
comb(this is a rather long process, as the comb always needs
cleaned)this will loosen any lice on the head. Wash hair a few times to
remove the oil the comb again. Repeat the treatment every four days,for
two weeks,this will catch any eggs that were missed. After two weeks
the head will be lice free. If you then continue to use the oil and tea
tree preperation once a week it should keep the head lice free. If you
find more lice at any time use the two week process again. I have four
children of my own and this is the system I have used for some time now,
and it continues to be sucessful. My children range from age 5 to 10
and my two elder girls think this once a week 'beauty hair treatment' is
wonderful as they now both have very long soft blond hair. Both of them
also have eczema of the scalp and since I have started using this system
they have had very little problems(an added bonus)
