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HeadLice Home Remedy Using Petroleum jelly

Added by swati sen. Created on 06/06/08

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Conditions Treated: Skin and Hair

Specific Conditions Treated: HeadLice

Ingredients Used: Petroleum jelly

Description: Head Lice also known as Lice or Pediculosis are parasitic wingless insects. Lice live on people's heads and feed on their blood. HeadLice are extremely contagious. Close contact or sharing personal belongings, such as hats or hairbrushes, puts people at risk. Children ages 2- 13 get head Head Lice most often. Application of Petroleum jelly on the head suffocates the lice and their eggs and they dies due to this.

Directions For Use: Apply lots of Petroleum jelly on your hair. Leave overnight and wash in the morning. It is the effective and inexpensive remedy. Head Lice completely gets vanish through the treatment with Petroleum jelly.

Not To Use With: As such there are no interactions of Petroleum jelly seen with any food or drug while treating Head Lice .

Side Effects: No side effects are seen with Petroleum jelly while treating Head Lice.

Expected Results: The HeadLice dies after the first application of petroleum jelly. In the morning when you will wash your head, died lice will come out of the head.

Expected Results Within: 12 hours

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