OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of 4% dimeticone lotion for treatment of head louse infestation. DESIGN Randomised controlled equivalence trial. SETTING Community, with home visits. PARTICIPANTS 214 young people aged 4 to 18 years and 39 adults with active head louse infestation. INTERVENTIONS Two applications seven days apart of either 4.0% dimeticone lotion, applied for ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate occurrence and environmental partition urban pesticides dependence these compounds on physicochemical properties sediment water Ceará River (fluvial mangrove regions) located tropical coast northeast Brazil. Surface were collected from each site. Dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature, conductivity, depth, turbidity, salinity measured in situ. Bifenthrin,...

Evidence Trials found the following statistically significant results. • Two RCTs compared dimeticone with permethrin. -A British RCT of 90 patients (aged 2 to 45)1 compared 4% dimeticone once with 1% permethrin twice (1 week apart) and found more dimeticone patients were lice free at day 9 (80% vs 36%, number needed to treat [NNT] = 3). Adverse events were similar and none were serious. -A Bra...

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BACKGROUND Increasing incidences of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors are threatening the sustainable use of contemporary chemical vector control measures. Fungal entomopathogens provide a possible additional tool for the control of insecticide-resistant malaria mosquitoes. This study investigated the compatibility of the pyrethroid insecticide permethrin and two mosquito-pathogenic fun...

Objective: Scabies is one of the diseases that can be minimized with preventive health measures. Accurate diagnosis scabies important for both patient and public health. Diagnosis in children challenging, since clinical features may differ from those adults. The aim present study was to investigate demographic characteristics patients childhood. Material Methods : aged 0-18 years, who were diag...

OBJECTIVE Staphylococcus aureus dominates the skin microbiota in patients with atopic dermatitis (AD), with bacterial loads correlating with disease severity. The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the effect of a cosmetic lotion containing heat-treated Lactobacillus johnsonii NCC 533 (HT La1) on S. aureus colonization in AD patients. METHODS This open-label, multicenter study w...

DESIGN AND INTERVENTION BDUs of following four treatment categories were exposed to field populations of ticks: untreated (control), deettreated, permethrin-impregnated (PI), and permethrin-sprayed (PS). Six sites of 1ha (2.5 acres) were selected for a relative abundance of ixodid ticks. Sites were selected to ensure maximum exposure to (1) the ticks of all three growth stages — larval, nymphal...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Prevention of tick borne diseases in forestry workers is essentially based on the use of appropriate clothing. The objective of this pragmatic, randomized, controlled trial was to assess the potential benefit of permethrin-treated working trousers for the prevention of tick infestation during forestry work. MATERIALS AND METHODS N=164 male forestry workers were equi...

Berbagai alternatif telah dilakukan untuk menghambat populasi nyamuk Aedes aegypti penyebab penyakit demam berdarah, diantaranya penggunaan lotion antinyamuk yang mengandung DEET. Untuk mengurangi resiko dan dampak negatif dari DEET, maka salah satu upaya pemanfaatan minyak atsiri kenanga (Cananga odorata) sebagai repellent atau alami. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui rendemen bunga kenanga,...