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Article: Tea tree gel effective at killing head lice.(Health Fitness)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- August 24, 2009
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The beginning of school can be new and exciting, but it is also the peak season for head lice.
Head lice occur most frequently in young children between 3 and 10 years old. In the U.S., approximately 6 million to 12 million children undergo treatment for head lice per year. Head lice are spread through direct contact between an infected person and an uninfected person. Although there are prescription medications that are effective in treating head lice, you might be surprised to learn that one nontraditional treatment, tea tree gel, may be as good as or even better at killing head lice.
The most common method of killing head lice is to treat the scalp ...