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"...I am so sick ofcleaning, washing clothes and nit picking...."

Subject: A typical case from start to finish.

Or, Does this sound familiar?

Original questions from a worried mum, Mary.

Hi! My 6 year old daughter was diagnosed with
head lice in August. I was horrified. I found
out how and where she caught the lice, from her
best friend. This little girls mom was not the
least bit upset. But anyways here is my question.
I have tried Rid as per my Dr. recommendations.

Two weeks later I thought I saw another lice.
I couldn't believe after all the cleaning and
nit picking etc. I took it to a friend of mine
at the local health board, sure enough it was
lice.

He told me about the olive oil 3 week
treatment. We finished that last Wednesday.
What a pain. Well I see a couple nits again
I am at the end of my ropes.

I am so sick of cleaning, washing clothes
and nit picking.

I am trying your product in hopes it will work.

Any helpful advice would be welcomed. I am so
upset about the lice I am having problems
sleeping etc. My girlfriends think I have
gone overboard with cleaning and am making
too much of it.

Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

She is the only one in the family so far
that has them. So why can't I get rid of them?

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Mary Safran

Our reply to Mary trying to help her
find a solution to her problems.
First of all please, as much as possible,
RELAX! You are going to win this struggle. The
comments about how hard you have found it
to get rid of these little beasties is very
typical, you are not alone.

Kids can suffer some terrible problems,but head
lice are not one of them. They may be yuck but
they aren't harmful and yes you always catch them
from your best friend because that’s who you snuggle
up to, share hugs with etc.

The friendship is worth a thousand times the problem
of the cooties.

Don't kill yourself over the house cleaning, this
is not, in the main, how they spread. Just do your regular cleaning.
Wash bed linen on a normal cycle, that's fine. If the
kids have hair brushes, hair bands, slides, caps,
hockey helmets etc that you can't wash, just put
them in a plastic bag and put them in the freezer overnight.

Now the positive stuff, NITMIX and the Almond Oil
we supply are very safe not only for kids, they
won't even kill head lice! That's how safe they are.
We are going to REMOVE them, because thats's what
we want. We want them OFF, dead or alive doesn't
matter, just off will do fine.

The greatest problem with head lice treatments
are the various promises made that each will
kill everthing in sight, everything made easy,
and it just doesn't work that way, if it did
we wouldn't be having this conversation.

When you describe repeated cases of head lice
passed back and forth between the kids it can
only mean one thing, each case is not really
being cleared up and is flaring up again 2-3
weeks after the treatment ends. This is most
likely caused by a few eggs surviving, a few
head lice surviving or immediate re-infestation
from another head.

Talk of head lice being resistant
to treatments is also common but the scientific
evidence is hard to find. It doesn't matter which
is explanation is true.

What is missing from the pesticide based solutions
is a reliable way of telling exactly what is going
on in the hair. You can look all you like but
juvenile head lice, nymphs, are so tiny and varied

I have seen thousands of heads and I can't see
them. So even if you do everything correctly with
a pesticide type solution it will be almost
impossible to know if you have succeeded.

What normally happens is that almost all the lice
are killed but a few survive or a few eggs hatch
out and start the whole cycle again.

You tend only to see the next generation of head
lice about two to three weeks later or when the kids
start to scratch. A 2-3 week gap is a sure sign that
all was not cleared before.

Our approach works on the simple basis of making
combing very very effective at removing lice of all
sizes but especially the tiniest.

We have found, over years of working with parents
in the UK, that to banish head lice the following is the best
approach.

Use Nitmix in Sweet Almond oil according to the
directions on the enclosed form (50 drops to 100 mls),
put sufficient of this mix into each child’s hair
to coat it, and then go through systematically with
the head louse comb.

It helps if you wipe the combevery time it
has been through the hair. The large
lice are easy to spot but look closely and you
will see that there are also tiny colored specks
that are actually tiny lice. These are your
greatest enemy as they are too small to see in
the hair and they carry on to become your next
generation of head lice.

The effect of the almond oil and NITMIX is
to help with the combing, the blended oils trap head lice
so they are unable to move about the
head throughout the combing part. After combing
the head you will need to wash your child’s hair
thoroughly.

The almond oil we supply is untreated and

washes out easily with ordinary family shampoo.

The Olive oil treatments( Vaseline, paraffin, etc etc)
that try to kill lice by smothering them are
falling into the trap of the " kill em off" approach.

You won't know if you have succeeded.

After shampooing out the almond oilput 2-3 drops
of Nitmix into a pint of water and rinse through as a
final rinse, this will leave at race of Nitmix in the hair,
and a very slight aroma which is not a problem for
humans but is for head lice.

Head lice are highly specific and
search out the natural aroma of human heads,
nothing else will do! We have found that head
lice appear not recognise heads with a trace of
Nitmix in as suitable places to feed and breed.

We believe that certain heads are more attractive
to head lice in the way that certain people are
more attractive to mosquitoes, and we believe that
the trace of Nitmix in the hair acts as a repellent
or a deodorant and puts the head lice off.

This whole process needs to be repeated every few days
until you see no live lice. Even after the first
application you will see that any remaining lice are
much fewer in number and smaller.

By taking head lice out every few days you are
not giving recently hatched ones the opportunity
to lay eggs and so the cycle will eventually grind
to a halt.

Once the head is clear of head lice,
then simply use Nitmix in the final rinse water
every time you wash your child’s hair, or put 10
drops in 125 ml of water in a spray bottle and
spray your child’s hair every day before they go
to school or out to play etc.

If this sounds hard work don't be put off, its
actually quite straightforward once you have
done it once.

We have heard absolute horror
stories of families struggling for months and
even years, they have all beaten head
lice with just the right little tricks, the
right tools and a bit of encouragement.

I hope this addresses some of your concerns,
my only other piece of advice is to relax and
have patience to work your way through the treatment
process. Good luck.

Reply from our client some months later,

Hi! I am sorry I never wrote back to let you
know how satisfied I was with this product
and the letter you sent to me.

I was so freakd out by the fact my daughter
had lice, I forgot how important her friend (that
she got the lice from) was to her. You made me realise
it was just lice, there are many children with
much worse things happening to them. So with
that advice I calmed down and was able to focus
on getting rid of the lice and with the
help of your product was able to do that.

I still check my daughter's friend's head
as well as my own daughters, so far so good
but if we do get lice again I will be able
to handle it. I also really liked the fact
that I wasn't using a harsh chemical or
pesticide on my child's head.

Your product actually helped her dry scalp
and made her hair very soft. I am deeply grateful for all your help.

I really did need support during that time
and you gave that to me along with a great product.
Thank you!

Sincerely,

Mary Safran

9th October 2001, Worldpay Order Reference 13594041 ,
PA, USA.

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