A simple treatment for head lice: Dry-on, suffocation-based pediculicide

Pediatrics

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Pearlman, Dale Lawrence ^a  

^a Family Dermatology Medical Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Lice; Malathion; Pediculus humanus var capitis; Permethrin; Pyrethrin; Resistance

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; MALATHION; NEUROTOXIN; PEDICULICIDE; PERMETHRIN; PYRETHRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CETAPHIL; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; FATTY ALCOHOL; PROPANEDIOL DERIVATIVE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEANING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDICULOSIS; PEDICULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN IRRITATION; SYMPTOM; ANIMAL; ASPHYXIA; DRUG COMBINATION; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ASPHYXIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FATTY ALCOHOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECTICIDES; LICE INFESTATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDICULUS; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; RECURRENCE; SCALP DERMATOSES; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11444264328     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2003-0666-F     Document Type: Article

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