A 1955 report to the medical literature, apparently overlooked or ignored, sheds new light on the National Pediculosis Association's efforts to alert the medical community and health officials to the ability of Collembola to infest humans. Needham, MA, August 19, 2005 -- Collembola, also known as springtails or snow fleas, are described in the authoritative "Biology of Springtails" by Hopkin as among the most widespread and abundant terrestrial arthropods on earth. Collembola are referred to as the earliest fossil proof of insect life on the planet. Why should people care? Collembola are being found in human hair and skin. Infestations appear to be communicable from particular environmental conditions or from one person to another, and there is no known cure once a person is …
An Emerging Health Crisis — Where’s Dr. House When You Need Him?
Needham, MA (PRWEB) May 19, 2005 -- If it weren't so tragic, it could be the story line in a Stephen King novel. Each day the National Pediculosis Association (NPA) is contacted by individuals describing the torment and horror of oozing skin lesions, sensations of bugs biting and crawling under their skin and doctors who diagnose it as nothing more than a delusion. In a 1994 Ladies Home Journal article about children who suffered seizures after being exposed to Lindane, a treatment for lice and scabies, the NPA provided a toll free number to launch the first national reporting registry for lice and scabies outbreaks, product failure, and adverse reactions to treatments. Adverse reaction reports to the NPA registry about Lindane led to the FDA giving Lindane a black box and its strongest …
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New Medical Device Keeps Lice Out Of Everyone’s Hair
The Chemical Approach To Head Lice Has Failed. BOSTON, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- It's almost impossible to find a community in the U.S. that doesn't have kids with lice. The non-profit National Pediculosis Association (NPA) says this fact adds to the scientific evidence that the chemical approach to controlling head lice has failed. The continual reliance on pesticide treatments has enabled the louse to become well established among the childhood population. The NPA advises parents that the safe alternative is to screen often and manually remove lice and nits (lice eggs). To help the millions of families affected by this communicable childhood disease, the NPA has developed the LiceMeister(R) comb, and is making it available to communities through local pharmacies. The February …
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Thorough Combing Emerges as the Treatment of Choice for Children with Head Lice
August 4, 1999 - In the newest issue of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, W. Steven Pray, Professor of Non-Prescription Products and Devices at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, writes about resistant lice and warns about the lack of safeguards for alternative products. He discusses the wide variety of commonly used chemical products and describes Lindane, a cyclodiene pesticide, as the most toxic pediculicide available. Given the inadequacies of a chemical approach to controlling head lice, Professor Pray recommends thorough combing as the emerging treatment of choice and instructs pharmacists to "shift in the new millennium to thorough combing with a highly effective comb such as the LiceMeister®." Professor Pray strongly advises against unproven head lice …
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