If your child has head lice and despite every attempt made, the parasites refuse to go, then need not worry. A study has stated that Ivermectim, a pill prescribed for the skin disease known as scabies, will help in getting rid of hair lice.
Researchers have stated that hair lice have become resistant to conventional lotions.
About 100 million people are affected across the globe by lice. Children are more prone to it.
French experts have stated that Ivermectin is a promising alternative.
About 812 adults and children from 376 households in Britain, France, Ireland, and Israel were put to test.
Of them about 50 per cent people were treated with malathion and others were treated with ivermectin.
About 95.2 per cent of people who got the ivermectin treatment were lice-free after two weeks as compared with 85 per cent in the malathion group.
Study's coordinator, Olivier Chosidow of France's National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), said, "Ivermectin is more effective than the best anti-lice lotion, but it should be reserved for difficult, resistant cases.”
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