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20054562

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-2-18
pubmed:abstractText
The head louse problem increases at all levels of the international societies due to activities or life conditions that lead to often hair contacts among people. Lice occur exclusively on humans. Thus, they avoid dropping down from a head and therefore accept even a bad smelling hair of new a host. Due to this behaviour, there are only a few products on the markets which dare to claim a repellency activity that protects humans from infestation with head lice. The present study shows that a combination of an extract of the seeds of the plant Vitex agnus castus (monk pepper) and the compound paramenthan-3,8-diol (which is also found in some plants, e.g. Eucalyptus) act synergistically and are able to protect human hair for at least 7 h from invasion of head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis). The recently developed product containing both compounds is named Licatack Preventive Spray.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1432-1955
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
106
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
729-31
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Repellency against head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis).
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Zoology and Parasitology, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't