National Bug Busting Day - 31st January 2012

Male head louse. Source: Wikipedia

Head lice are a real problem for children, so easily passed from head to head at school whist at work in the classroom or playing together. What seems like a simple remedy is to get an insecticide and apply that. However, by regularly using the Bug Buster kit, you can keep your child free from infestation and without possible side effects from the chemicals in insecticides. Also there is no risk of the lice developing immunity to the insecticides.
A head louse usually hatches 7-10 days after the egg (nit) is laid, but can be anything from 5 to 11 days. Once hatched the louse becomes full grown after a minimum of 6 days. Full grown lice tend to move from head to head whereas immature lice tend to stay put. Full grown lice also mate and the female can start laying eggs at the earliest one week after she hatched!

Bug busting is all about breaking the life cycle, prevent them from spreading by removing them before the 6th day of hatching and preventing them from reproducing.

Most of the chemical products rely on killing hatched lice as it is very difficult for the chemical to penetrate the egg and difficult to remove all the eggs by combing alone. When insecticides are used a week apart, the risks are the lice can hatch and start laying their own eggs before the next application, or the live hatch after both applications. There may be re-infection from another head!

The Bug Buster Kit is recommended by the Department of Health and is re-usable. By using the specially designed comb, your regular shampoo and conditioner, you can easily remove head lice. It is recommended that you use the special combs twice a week for 2 weeks, which should rid you of an infestation (unless there is re-infection from another source).

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