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THERE ARE BETTER WAYS TO TREAT LICE

Why are people still using traditional OTC pesticide products?  They don’t work and are so harmful.  A 2013 study, In utero pesticide exposure and leukemia in Brazilian children less than 2 years of age,” found that a mother’s exposure to permethrin at any time raised the cancer risk for infants. A 2006 study, Household exposure to pesticides and risk of childhood acute leukaemia, also found an association between the use of lice shampoo and childhood leukemia. A 2012 study, Prenatal exposure to pesticide ingredient piperonyl butoxide and childhood cough in an urban cohort, indicated that exposure to synthetic pyrethroids like permethrin in combination with piperonyl butoxide, a chemical often added to pesticide formations and lice shampoos as a synergist to enhance the toxicity of active ingredients, “…may be a factor in a very common problem for children – cough,” according to co-author Rachael Miller, MD.

Why are we using these products still?  Why are they legal?  We give our children organic milk, but put poison on their heads?  There is no need to when there is a safe solution at Lice Lifters.  Find a Lice Lifters near you and we can help you today.

Find a Lice Lifters Treatment Center near you. http://www.licelifters.com/locations.html The Nit Nanny Products are always available http://www.thenitnanny.com/productsandprevention.html

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