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Thorough Combing Emerges as the Treatment of Choice for Children with Head Lice

August 4, 1999 // by NPA

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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Resistant Lice? A Crisis for the Kids

April 11, 1996 // by NPA

From the Progress Newsletter, Spring 1996. The National Pediculosis Association has issued an alert to warn American families. The NPA reports that a worst-case scenario is emerging, as head lice appear to be resistant to commercially available chemical treatments. With resistance to the prescription chemical lindane already documented, it is likely that the over-the-counter pediculicides have followed suit. Lice resistance to permethrin was anticipated in 1990 by doctors John D. Edman, Medical Entomologist and John M. Clark, Insecticide Toxicologist, both at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. For the past year, the NPA has been averaging 50 calls a day from parents and health professionals reporting product treatment failure. Frustrated parents have responded to persistent …

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Pediculosis (the medical term for an infestation of lice) provides a public health opportunity to teach important lessons about communicable disease preparedness, responsible personal behaviors, environmental health, and the importance of learning about pharmaceutical remedies before using them on our children and ourselves.

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