Kopfläuse und ihre Bekämpfung - eine unendliche Geschichte?

Head lice in contrast to body lice do no transmit agents of disease. Nevertheless they cause panics in childyards and schools when they occur after long school holidays, since lice are (erroneously) kept for signs of dirtiness and antisocial behaviour. Therefore it is most important that parents frankly inform the mothers of all comrades and that a common treatment action is initiated. Otherwise repeated costful ping-pong infections will occur. Treatment can be done by plant extracts (with low efficacy and risk of allergies), with insecticides under increasing resistance risks, and by glueing di- and cyclomethicones respectively by fluid compounds which block the entrance of oxygen into the tracheal system of the lice. In case of di- and cyclomethicones it is important to treat in absence of fire, since together with hair heavy ignitions occur. In any case, however, any remedy must be applicated in a way totally covering the skin at the hair basis, where lice are sucking.