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Other Head Lice Solutions
The
main advantage of NITMIX over other head lice solutions is that we make no
attempt to kill head lice at all, we just remove them. Other head lice
solutions may have active ingredients as detailed below:
The
most common active ingredients are pyrethrums, permethrins, lindane and
malathion.
Pyrethrums were originally derived from chrysanthemums. Just because they
occur in nature doesn't make them any less concerning, Nature is more than
capable of producing very powerful poisons.
Permethrin, a synthetic pyrethrin, is used to control insects on animals,
house or gardens, and in agriculture. If you read the active ingredient
label on wasp & hornet killer, flying insect killer, ant & roach killer,
house foggers and fumigators, yard sprays, and commercial insect killers,
you will see you may be applying the same chemical to your child. (Although
at different concentrations depending on the product.)
Lindane
is an organo-phosphate, yes that's right the same type of chemical as used
in sheep dip, nerve gas and timber treatment. In the progressive state of
California it is banned outright due to concern over it's potential to cause
cancer and nerve damage while also polluting the water supply.
Malathion is another organo-phoshate produced to a drug grade (USP) which,
in its less pure form, is used widely to kill medfly and mosquitoes. It is a
prescription only preparation and is highly inflammable so watch out!
There
is a lot of concern, information and, no doubt, mis-information about all
these products about. We don't know any more about what it true and not true
than you do, save to say, it would take a vast amount of research to sort it
all out and that money is just not being spent in that way. What we do know
is that many parents are not getting the results they want from some of
these products and that's what counts.
From our previous
experience and that of our loyal customers, we simply know that NITMIX is
effective at dealing with head lice, without resorting to these types of
poisonous chemicals.
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