Single blind, randomised, comparative study of the Bug Buster kit and over the counter pediculicide treatments against head lice in the United Kingdom

Personal experience seems always to be derided and experimental trial
data preferred; so it's good to have one's preferences and predjudices
confirmed by a trial! My experience with both patients and, more closely,
with my own children at home is that the most effective treatment is
regular "bug busting". Further, that in many cases the problem is only
"solved" but cutting long hair short, drastically thinning thick hair
(both of which measures make bug busting vastly easier), or moving to
secondary school (at which age presumably there is less head to head
contact). Chemicals seem to work best to reduce a very heavy infestation
to a population more easily managed by bug busting.

Competing interests:
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