NY State proposes legislation banning the sale, use, and prescription of Lindane Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg introduces bill that would prohibit any lice or scabies treatment product from containing the pesticide Lindane.

Once lindane is gone (YAHOO!) NY nurses need to help keep the pesticide malathion from replacing it. Nurses not immune from the adverse events from these pesticides.

Aside from unfortunately being directed to use them as parents on their own kids -- ER nurses, nursing home nurses and pediatric nurses get exposed to lice and "treat" themselves too.

A lot of the time it is done out of fear or hopeful (but not founded) prevention. The planet and the humans who try to live on it much better off without lindane and without malathion!

http://www.headlice.org/news/2004/ny-lindane.htm

"Future will depend upon our wisdom not to replace one poison with another." National Pediculosis Association

Please tell me that the National Pediculosis Association is a joke.

Actually lice a pretty serious issue for kids who are shampooed with pesticides by parents who weren't warned about the risks. Thing is -- there are lots of reports from nurses who've been permanently disabled from using the stuff too.

Not sure how Jesse's mom would feel about your question but maybe reading about her experience will help shed some light.

http://www.headlice.org/jesseproject/jesseproject.htm

Thank you! This picture worth a zillion words. BTW -- Whazzup with the google ads for lice products that come up on the side of the discusion board? Talk about lousy.

What ever happened to good ol' Kwell shampoo (or ointment?) Did that contain Lindane?

Long ago, in the Navy, they used something called "Blue Ointment."

I can't resist sharing a song that was taught to us by one of our instructors in hospital corps school, during the Vietnam era:

Sung to the tune of "Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet"

Put on that old blue ointment

To the crabs' disappointment

Leave it on

For a night

And a day

Holy Jesus, how it itches

But it kills those sons of b***ches

In a good old fashioned way

That is a tragic story, and maybe I misread, but why would anyone treat for lice if lice weren't even present.

A child died due to being shampooed with kerosene a short while ago.

Originally posted by cannoli

That is a tragic story, and maybe I misread, but why would anyone treat for lice if lice weren't even present.

A child died due to being shampooed with kerosene a short while ago.

I had lice when I was about 11 and it was so hard to get rid of. When I found out my neice had head lice I used Rid on my daughter and me and cleaned our whole house just to prevent reliving the nightmare of head lice again.

Is lindane something that is only given by prescription or is it in over the counter shampoos like RID and such?

it passed through the health commitee and will be in the codes and rules commitee's in the assembly and senate.

As most of you must be aware Lindane is highly toxic, the FDA blackboxed it, but its still being used on children and the elderly.

Hoping as many nurses in NY state as possible will write letters of support for this bill addressed to Assemblyman Weisenburg.

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A4162

kwell = lindane

here is toxicology info from reputable websites:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a682651.html

extoxnet pip - lindane

Hello,

Put a jar of mayonase on the head and bam it kills lice ....it is cheap and quick. The old fashion way.

I learn it from my mother and it was pass to me. I used it on the prisioners and it worked.

Have a great evening,

Buttons

I was going to post just plain old mayo will also do the trick, and if you can eat it, it won't harm you.

See that someone else also had the same idea.

Also important to do comb out to remove all nits. Above website with good info.

Spent many hours over 10 years volunteering at my childrens elementary school each September to do manual inspection of all students hair. Been in some ugly exchanges with parents over need for lice treatment. But school has had no outbreaks, just isolated cases and clear no nit policy.