Sentence examples for kills lice from inspiring English sources

Mr. Timba said that after his release he picked up a liquid that kills lice, poured it in his bath and took a long soak.

And remember: No need to pay for exterminators to kill lice in your house.

Such is her confidence in herding and killing lice that she doesn't even use rubber gloves.

While those shampoos, which contain mild pesticides, usually kill the live lice, they are not strong enough to kill lice eggs, said Sydney Z. Spiesel, an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine.

During the war, chemical companies had sold the pesticide to the military to stop the spread of typhus by killing lice.

The students emptied the huts one by one and fumigated two to use as temporary hospitals, filling them with patients who had been showered and sprayed with DDT to kill lice.

In 2004 a study published in the journal Pediatrics showed that applying large amounts of a mild lotion (later revealed to be Cetaphil skin cleanser) to a child's dry hair, applying heat from a hair dryer, leaving overnight, then washing and combing out the next morning was 95 percent effective in killing lice when applied once a week for three weeks.

The lice eat dead skin and bits of feathers, and the birds fight back by killing lice as they preen.

For a more reliable estimate, medical entomologist Ian Burgess of Insect Research & Development Ltd. in Cambridgeshire, U.K., analyzed data from 20 previous studies of treatments that kill lice through physical means, such as lotions that suffocate the insects, but do not kill eggs.

Those drugs, now available by prescription in the United States, are up to 85% effective at killing lice and eggs with one dose, sparing parents from dousing a squirming child's scalp multiple times.

In an ideal world chlorine would kill lice, amirite.