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New Species of Lice Is Alarming Parents Around Australia As They Are Difficult to Treat


For a parent, the health and hygiene of their child is something they cannot negotiate on.

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Cleanliness and health issues among young kids are common but for the parents, it becomes the priority to get it treated first. This is the same problem Australian parents are going through.

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There is a new breed of lice that has developed and is affection kids around the nation. The major problem is that the lice are so stubborn that no treatment works on them.

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Parents have been spending a fortune to get their kids the treatment they need only to find out that the treatment did not work.

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‘According to the experts, the lice have developed over time and now they have become resistant to the products that were successfully able to kill them before.

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Parents to deal with the situation are commonly using products like Malathion, Pyrethrinhad, and Permethrin, but it looks like the products are no more effective on the lice.

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For the same, clinics have come up with a special kind of machine that will dehydrate the lice and then kill them.

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Lice Clinics of Australia’s Michael Lawless said “parents were seeking for help and so they were going to the professionals to kill off the lice that are living in the hair of their kids.

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He said that they were panicked about the situation and were worried that the lice would spread around the house.

Yes, the machine has given out results and it is a great way of killing the lice but the University of South Australia says that rather than going for such difficult things, it is better to use the easier ways available like manually taking out the lice or by using the products with tea-tree oil that is definite to work.

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