Before You Take That Pill » malathion http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com ...Read This, Drug and Health Safety News Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:24:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dr. B’s Chamber of Horrors: Lousy Treatments for Head Lice Might Make Your Children’s Head Catch on Fire http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/index.php/2009/05/27/dr-bs-chamber-of-horrors-lousy-treatments-for-head-lice-might-make-your-childrens-head-catch-on-fire/ http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/index.php/2009/05/27/dr-bs-chamber-of-horrors-lousy-treatments-for-head-lice-might-make-your-childrens-head-catch-on-fire/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 09:20:32 +0000 Doug Bremner http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/?p=850 Head lice are a big problem, affecting 6 to 12 million people in the US every year. Head lice are becoming endemic amongst our children. Unfortunately the pharmacological treatments for head lice are not that great. Malathion (Ovide) is an organophosphate that kills lice by inhibiting the cholinesterase enzyme.

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Malathion works well for lice, unfortunately it has the side effect of being highly flammable, so little children should stay away from fires, to keep their heads from catching on fire. 

med_dry_ice_gunThe most commonly used prescribed medication for these problems is lindane (Kwell). Doctors apparently have not figured out yet that it doesn’t work and has been associated with some potential safety concerns. Efficacy of lindane has been decreasing over the past few decades to lindane due to the emergence of treatment resistant lice. Lindane has limited efficacy, killing only 17% of lice after a 3 hour period, and none after 10 minutes, the recommended time of exposure.

In other words, take Lindane as directed, and it will do NOTHING!

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