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About Head Lice To Dead Lice
Product Description A terrific treatment plan for a lousy problem. The head-count on lice infestations is growing each year, yet head lice have become resistant little buggers, immune to many of the traditional treatments. So how can you treat a child's head lice infestation while keeping your home, your own head, and your child's self-esteem intact? Now there's an answer for the millions of families plagued by persistent lice. Based on their award-winning, acclaimed video, Joan Sawyer and Roberta MacPhee-- otherwise known as the "Lice Ladies"-- present panicked parents with a safe, effective five-step treatment plan to end stubborn cases of head lice once and for all. In an informal, easy-to-read, and often humorous voice, the Lice Ladies offer help for families bugged by lice, including: * Bug Off! Their famous "Head Lice to Dead Lice" plan for treatment and prevention of head lice infestations * An itchy subject: the social, emotional, and legal issues associated with head lice * Lice through the ages: a history of lice and their treatments, including chemicals, oils, and folk remedies * Nitpicking: how to effectively check for, comb through, and pick out lice * Housekeeping: how to keep your home lice-free (without becoming obsessive-compulsive) * Other essential tips on what parents, kids, and schools can do to banish and prevent head lice, including a helpful resource list of doctors, organizations, public health departments, websites, and more. Review "[Sawyer and MacPhee] have made a 'lousy' subject socially acceptable with good humor and excellent pedagogy."--Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General From the Author From the authors Joan Sawyer & Roberta MacPhee, [email protected] Hello from Lice Ladies Joan Sawyer and Roberta MacPhee. We wrote this book version of our award winning video, Head Lice to Dead Lice: Safe Solutions for Frantic Families (also available on Amazon.com) at the request of our editor at St. Martins Press, who tracked us down after finding our information on the web. For the past two years, we have run the American Head Lice Information and Resource Center. We have spent hours on the phone counseling frustrated parents, school nurses and pediatricians on how to use olive oil as part of a comprehensive program (the Five-Step Battle Plan) to eliminate persistent head lice infestations. We hope this book will get the information out more efficiently and that finally, we can get off the phone. We have included everything we've learned over the past three years about head lice.It all started a few years ago when Joans family experienced a nightmarish encounter with the little critters. No matter what they did (overdosed the kids with chemicals, moved out of the house and hired a visiting nurse to help) Joan could not get rid of them. She felt like she was in the Twilight Zone until research revealed that the problem was not with Joan, her house or her kids. The problem was that the chemical companies would not admit that their pediculicides were no longer killing all the lice. It seems that head lice have, predictably, developed a chemical tolerance to permethrin (Nix) pyrethrin (Rid, Pronto, etc.) and Lindane (Kwell- a powerful neuro-toxin that you do not want to use anyway). And who could blame these companies? After all, the lice industry brings in $200 million dollars a year and growing because when a pediculicide does not work, most people think it is their own fault and go out and buy more chemicals.This is causing serious stress to more than 12 million American families a year who are missing critical days of school and work because they can not get rid of head lice. Some kids have even been removed from their parents custody because the kids have missed so much school. And none of this is necessary. You can get rid of head lice by smothering them with olive oil. But you need to know how to do it right. You can not just dump olive oil on your head and pray. You are s
