And prevent them coming back…
I know that you probably won’t have encountered head lice unless you have school age kids, or teach kids, or are a regular babysitter.
Recently I saw a post on a Mum’s forum that reminded me of those dark days, when you had to check your kids hair every single day during school term – just in case.
Or when you could spot your kids scratching the back of their head with your side-eye from fifty paces, and you knew what that meant.
You knew that you would be taking a trip to the chemist to spend hard-earned pounds on bottles of toxic liquid to massage into everybody’s hair. And you knew full well that even if you got rid of the pests this week, that a month from now your kids would catch them again because some families weren’t as diligent as you [or possibly couldn’t afford the prices of repeated treatments.]
I digress.
The post I read asked a simple question. Did anybody know of an efficient, non-toxic way of conquering head lice? As it happened, I did, and I do!
This method was divulged to me by my Mum, whose family used it during the war to effectively treat their cat when she had fleas. I did my research and found that it was effective against head lice and would also kill the nits. It was completely non-toxic, and cost pennies. I used it effectively for years when my kids were at school, and I found it not only killed the nits and lice, but also worked as an effective deterrent. My kids didn’t keep getting infested when the lice were doing their rounds.
You need:
25g Quassia chips [buy online from Baldwins.co.uk]
500ml water.
[Plus a sieve and a spray bottle].Place the quassia chips in the water in a saucepan and soak overnight. In the morning simmer, covered, for 15 mins. Take off the heat, cool and strain through a sieve into a spray bottle.
Keep this in the fridge and spray your kids hair as they leave for school in the morning, and spray them again when they come in.
It smells a bit ‘woody’ at first, but it soon dissipates in the fresh air.
Do you know of another effective, non-toxic treatment?
