Head Lice treated without pesticides?

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Having a child infected with head lice isn’t the stigma it use to be. Yes it is tedious, combing to remove them, dousing of pesticide to kill them but now it is recognized as one of those things a child gets by playing with other kids in the playground. Lice in some regions of the country have begun to develop resistance to common treatments. That’s where a new non-toxic, gel-like substance used in everything from shampoo to silly putty, called dimethicone is remarkably effective. So far, 95 percent of the cases it did the job in just a single treatment. Conventional treatment for lice exposes our children to pesticides. Pesticides kill lice by poisoning them, where dimethicone suffocates the lice by clogging their respiratory system airways. At full strength, leaving it on the head for 10 minutes is 100 percent effective. The product used, called Lice MD, is already commercially available. http://www.delta-optimist.com/opinion/blogs/deltabc-1.983313/blog-head-lice-treated-without-pesticides-1.2001357