When you were younger, some of you may have experienced the annoying itchiness that was brought by lice. It is like a never-ending itchiness that you feel you have scratched your head sore and it still does not go away. Lice do not only cause irritation but also distress and embarrassment to those who suffer from them. If you are unfamiliar about lice, they are parasites that feed on the blood of humans. Mostly they stay in the inner recess of your hair roots. It sounds like a vampire right? Only instead of being scared, you feel more irritated about them. There are several ways on how to kill lice but not all of them would be effective to everyone so you have to choose which works for you.

In order for us to know how to effectively kill lice we have to know the cause of head lice.   You do not acquire head lice from lack of bathing or shampooing. Head lice would like more to stay in a clean hair than oily ones because it is harder for them to attach themselves if your hair is oily or greasy. So how do you get them? According to studies, people get them through head-to-head contact. Also if you know that a person has lice, avoid borrowing their combs or hair accessories because this can be a way for you to get lice. Mostly, the people who are affected with lice are school children because they tend to really stay close together specially when playing.

How do you check if your kid has lice? You have to stay in a place with bright light and check your child if he has live lice. Lice would want to stay at the warmest place so you need to check near the ears and at the nape of the neck. If you were able to discover the live lice, the next thing for you to check is if there are eggs, also known as nits, that developed as well. If you were able to find them the next thing to do is how to kill lice and eggs.

If you’re thinking of the possible remedy, probably the first thing that you will think about is lice shampoo.  Shampoos and crèmes are not any more considered 100% effective. They are also to be used with utmost care and instructions should be followed carefully. There are other ways that you can consider in killing lice, like using mayonnaise, olive oil and cholesterol hair conditioner as smothering agent.  Using the traditional way of using comb to check eggs is also a must.

There is an interesting discovery of killing lice and that is using hair dye.  “Does hair dye kill lice?!” Yes it can. Although it is not yet a clinically proven treatment, it is one of the simple head lice home remedies that has shown effectiveness in many cases. It is up to the person on what to remedy to use. The most important fact is that there are several ways for you to kill lice.