Ulyana Vosonina/ article author
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Tea Tree Oil for Lice and Nits

Primarily pediculosis - This is a childhood disease that affects preschoolers. How to rid your native child of small bloodsuckers that scare the whole family. After all, cut your daughter’s long hair to get rid of licecompletely barbaric way. Most immediately go to the pharmacy and purchase special pediculicidal drugs, and others decide to remove parasites in folk ways. One of these is tea tree oil from lice. Although many continue to argue and do not believe in the effectiveness of essentials.

How does the tool work

Each essential oil has a rich and concentrated aroma, therefore, having felt it, the blood-sucking parasites try as soon as possible to get away from the source of an unpleasant odor. But lice are not ordinary insects. In the process of evolution, they have developed a stable immunity to many plant components, so that they do not perceive some insecticides.

Tea tree oil
Tea tree oil

After applying tea tree oil-based products to the hair, parasites still cannot leave their habitat on their own. You can remove them only with the help of a special lice comb. On it, the bristles are so close to each other that they can easily comb out all the lice and nits from the hair.

The plant component is not able to lead to the death of any adult. After all, their chitinous cover is so strong that it does not allow it to penetrate inside. Despite these arguments, fans of traditional medicine claim that the tea tree from lice helps due to its high toxicity and rich aroma.

How to use tea tree oil

Essential oil, in addition to its antiparasitic action, can trigger the development of a serious allergic reaction. Therefore, despite the safety of herbal remedies, it is important to comply with the dosage and adhere to basic safety rules.

Since the chitinous shell is too dense, you need to know how to use tea tree oil in order to have the best result.

Recipes based on tea tree aroma oil

To tea tree oil from pediculosis helped, it should be combined with alcohol tincture, which contributes to the destruction of the cover.

Important!

It is forbidden to use aroma oil from lice undiluted, this can lead to severe allergies or skin irritation.

If previously a person has not used it for cosmetic purposes, it is better to do a simple sensitivity test. For this, a few drops are applied to the elbow bend, lasts 15 to 20 minutes, then rinsed off. If there was no reaction during the day, you can use pediculosis treatment.

The use of tea tree oil from lice and nits:

  1. To 25 grams of water add 25 grams of ethyl alcohol and 15 drops of tea tree. The oil solution is rubbed into the scalp. Perform the procedure daily until the parasites completely disappear.
  2. Add 2 ml of the product to the shampoo, mix, wash it well with its head. This recipe is not medical, rather it is prophylactic against lice.
  3. Combine clove and tea tree oil in the ratio 4: Stir and rub into the head every day.
Tea tree oil and cloves
Tea tree oil and cloves

At the same time as a tea tree, pharmacy preparations should be used. After all, only aromatic oil will stop for a short time breeding lice and will not lead them out of the hair and head.

Important!

Lice and Nits are not only in the head, but also on the bed. Therefore, the pillowcase, sheet and duvet cover should be washed at high temperatures and ironed well.

Aroma oil helps get rid of parasites, heals wounds well, relieves redness, itching, swelling in the place of combing lice bites.

Contraindications and side effects

Despite the positive qualities, it is contraindicated to use tea tree oil from lice and nits with:

  • bronchial asthma;
  • pregnancy and lactation;
  • individual intolerance;
  • children under 6 years old.

Essential oil is an exclusively natural component, but with an overdose, or if it enters the stomach, the following symptoms occur:

  • headache;
  • vomiting
  • abdominal pain;
  • diarrhea;
  • symptoms of poisoning.

In children, redness, rash, and itching most often appear.

Tea Tree Oil-1
Tea tree oil

Due to its pungent odor, aromatic oil is effective scares off lice. To achieve a quick result, it is necessary to combine them with pharmacy products. As a preventative measure, simply add a few drops to your regular shampoo or hair balm.

Reviews

Daughter got infected head lice in kindergarten. I read reviews about tea tree oil from lice. I decided to try it. I brewed a half mug of green tea, added alcohol and tea tree essential oil to it. I rubbed my head and hair well. Then she washed and combed everything out with a comb. In the morning I found several more living individuals in my head, decided not to risk anymore with folk remedies and bought at the pharmacy pediculicidal shampoo. Washed with oil, after a week there were no more parasites.

Alla, Surgut

After a train ride, I found lice. She washed her head with tea oil. The lice were as they were, and they remained, and my neck was sprinkled with allergies.

Alexandra, Vladimir

Daughter periodically came from the garden with lice. On the advice of a friend, she began adding tea tree oil to the shampoo. A year passed, there were no more insects.

Vera, Tambov

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