27/11/2012
LICE - How to Make Homemade Recipes to Get Rid of Lice.
This will kill actually kill the lice in the first bath.
Lice can cause scratching, loss of hair, and scabs, and are usually found round the ears, head, and neck, and rump. They are visible to the naked eye. The sores may be scabby and the skin, thickened, dry and scaly. Restlessness and anemia are two of the most outstanding clinical signs that should suggest pediculosis. Careful examination of the skin and hair of infested guinea pigs will reveal the lice and their eggs.
Lice, like mites, are generally considered host specific and need a guinea pig to survive. Most common is Gliricola porcelli (1 to 1.5 mm), the slender guinea pig louse and less common, gyropus ovalis (1 to 1.2 mm - Pict 1), the oval guinea pig louse. They are flattened insects with no wings and are considered biting lice -- they abrade the skin to obtain fluid. Gliricola porcelli are light colored (white to pale yellow), wriggly insects which can easily be seen moving through the fur near the skin and in heavy infestations, around the eyes. A third species of lice, trimenopon hispidium, are very rare; light infestations easily overlooked; heavy infestations cause alopecia and rough coat because of excessive scratching.
Lice seldom leave a living host and transmission usually occurs through direct contact with another guinea pig, from contaminated bedding or utensils, or from being carried by a person who has recently handled an infested animal, transferring eggs or lice from their clothing/person to the guinea pig. Bedding materials which have not been in contact with a guinea pig, such as hay or shavings from a feed store, will not contain lice. As with mites, weakened or young individuals will suffer the most.
Lice undergo an incomplete metamorphosis which takes place entirely on the host within a period of 3-5 weeks.
How to Make Homemade Recipes to Get Rid of Lice and Fleas:- I did use on guinea pigs to kill lice.
Instructions: Put the peels from three or four (or more) oranges in a large saucepan with about one quart of water and boil until the peels are soft. Let the peels cool in the water, then blend the peels with some of the cooled water in the blender. Return the blended peels to the rest of the cooled water. This will kill actually kill the fleas and the lice as orange peels contain an ingredient that dissolves their exoskeletons. I bath my guinea pig and did rolled in a towel for about 5 minutes and after pass by the warm water just to take the excess. I did repeated after 1 week, next week, until complete 5 weeks, but at the same time I did clean the cage and all the accessories with vinegar.