Non-Toxic Lice Treatment with Cetaphil
September 28, 2009
My daughter’s preschool class recently had a lice outbreak so it’s been on the top of my mind lately. Luckily, only one child caught it but I was prepared with all of my natural treatment options, just in case. I recently wrote about several natural lice treatment options and have come across another from Dr. Greene, a well known pediatrician and professor at Stanford.
Apply Cetaphil to wet hair and heat with a hair dryer to create a ’shrink wrap’ film over the head. Eight hours later, wash out the film with your regular shampoo. This will remove the lice but not the eggs to repeat the process one time per week for 3 weeks to make sure you are able to get rid of all of them.
According to Dr. Greene, a 2004 study in the “Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics” noted that this treatment cured lice in 96% of children who used it.
