The Old, Expensive, Dangerous, and Ineffective Way to Deal With Lice:

1. Find out your child has lice.
2. Go buy some chemical shampoo and plaster it all over your child's head, wash it off, and then naiively think that you have solved the problem.
3. Repeat in 2-3 weeks when your child amazingly got lice again. (or rather, you never really got rid of it in the first place)

The Truth about this method is that today's lice are more sophisticated than the lice of yesteryear and they are often immune to the chemical shampoos (such as RID or NIX). I have heard many accounts of families using chemical lice shampoos on their children 3 or more times, and still finding live lice!

Furthermore, chemical shampoos are dangerous pesticides that have no business being on humans. You can read more about this here, here, and here. And if that isn't enough, you can read some stories of families with children who were adversely affected by chemical lice treatments here.

The other aspect of head lice that isn't solved by chemical shampoos is this: They don't kill the unhatched eggs. If you don't manually remove every single solitary nit off your child's head, then they still have lice. It's only a matter of time before those little lice babies hatch and start rambling all over your child's head and raising families of their own.

So, let's review the OLD WAY of trying to deal with head lice:

1. Expensive for you! (see our comparison chart)

2. Potentially dangerous for your child

3. Don't effectively kill live lice

4. Don't kill the eggs

In short, it's not an effective way to approach this problem.