You may “break their legs or arms” by combing and they will not be able to continue to live [to be fertile], that means no new eggs, no new families possible [they are probably no orthopedic doctors between them]
[Sorry for all animal friends, I am one of them, but what to do!? ma la-asot]
……….Wet combing four times more effective than chemical treatments for head lice[see for article after -my resent-story]
Quite a while ago I sent you some writings about the treatment of lice , as I learned about it in a tropical course in London.
I will resend you the article together with an article quoted from the British medical journal, one of my favored journals, which a friend forwarded to me.
Lice———Kiniem
Most people get some shivering, if they hear this word.
May be his is still the aftermath [to-tsa-a] from Jewish history and pharaoh [par-o]
Anyhow, i get a lot of questions what to do with lice.
There are endless “home-remedies”, but let’s talk about the most effective, simple method.
Don’t use the commercial anti-louse shampoos etc, they are for sure toxic, especially for small children.
Some facts about the family-life of lice, in order to understand how to treat a “lousy head”.
Lice like to live very near the scalp [karkevet].
They don’t easily jump from one head to the other, they like their host best!!!
If one find living lice [or something that looks like an egg of a louse]
Further then one centimeter from the head [karkevet], then one can be sure that he/she is going to an old age home to die.
That means, this louse will not form any more a family and is going to die sooner or later! The danger has past [sof sakana]
As long as the louse is living on a short-one centimeter distance- from the head, she can still form a huge family.
So to summarize: lice or eggs [or things that look like that] on the hair, further then one centimeter are in principle grave-tombs [kevariem]
What one has to do is treat the nearby lice?
How? [ ke-tsad]
Use a fine metal lice-comb.
Comb the head [just the karkevet, not the whole length of the hair ,this is difficult and a waste of time, for you are then treating dead animals or eggs, even if they still jump around there on some distance],
As I said ,comb the head every day for 2 to 3 weeks for a few minutes and you will harm all the young, fertile lice.
You may “break their legs or arms” by combing and they will not be able to continue to live [to be fertile], that means no new eggs, no new families possible [they are probably no orthopedic doctors between them]
[Sorry for all animal friends, I am one of them, but what to do!?? ma la-asot]
after 2 to 3 weeks the cycle [machzor] is broken [no births of new baby-lice] and if you still find lice jumping around, leave them alone………they are going to die, just as all the eggs on a distance from the head which are already kewariem [graves] ,as I wrote before.
I hope the story is clear.
If not please write me and I will try to clear up unclear passages in the future.
This story I learned many years ago from a world expert on lice during a course in the tropical school of medicine in London and believe me:he seemed to know everything about these little wonderful creatures.
Good luck!!
