EP0221004A2 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Entfernen von Läusen und Nissen - Google Patents

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Entfernen von Läusen und Nissen Download PDF

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EP0221004A2
EP0221004A2 EP86630160A EP86630160A EP0221004A2 EP 0221004 A2 EP0221004 A2 EP 0221004A2 EP 86630160 A EP86630160 A EP 86630160A EP 86630160 A EP86630160 A EP 86630160A EP 0221004 A2 EP0221004 A2 EP 0221004A2
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Robert Fillip
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
    • A61H33/14—Devices for gas baths with ozone, hydrogen, or the like
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
    • A61H33/14—Devices for gas baths with ozone, hydrogen, or the like
    • A61H2033/145—Devices for gas baths with ozone, hydrogen, or the like with CO2
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H2205/00—Devices for specific parts of the body
    • A61H2205/02—Head
    • A61H2205/021—Scalp

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  • the present invention relates to a method, and also to a device, for eradicating lice and nits from an infested area.
  • the invention is particularly useful for eradicating lice and nits from the scalp of a human being, and is therefore described below with respect to this application.
  • Lice are a group of parasitic insects that live on various animals, including human beings; and nits are the eggs of such insects.
  • Head lice are most common among children because of the frequency with which they put their heads together during work projects and games. If one child is infested, then all the other children are likely to be infested. In severe cases, the lice can be seen, but in most cases the diagnoses is made after finding small, shiny, pearl-coloured nits (eggs) attached to the hairs of the scalp.
  • the usual treatment involve applying a shampoo or a lotion which includes active ingredients killing the lice and the nits.
  • the active ingredient may be harmful to the scalp, and therefore care must be exercised; a physician's prescription is even required for some such preparations.
  • some preparations have to be left on the head for a long period of time, e.g., 12 hours, before shampooing, and/or require repeated treatments because of the difficulty of killing the nits particularly.
  • some lice and nits develop an immunity to particular preparations, which further increases the difficulty in eradicating them.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a new method and device for eradicating lice and nits from an infested area.
  • a method of eradicating lice and nits from an infested area comprising: enclosing the infested area with a gas-tight enclosure; removing breathable oxygen from within the enclosure for a period of time sufficient to suffocate the lice and nits therein; and removing the enclosure and the suffocated lice and nits from the infested area.
  • the breathable oxygen is removed from the enclosure by filling it with an inert gas such as carbon dioxide.
  • the novel method thus based on suffocating the lice and the nits, provides a number of important advantages over the techniques heretofore used.
  • the main advantage is that the material used is inert, and therefore can be applied without a physician's prescription and without danger of injuring the subject; accordingly, the treatment can be applied as often as desired, even when there is a mere suspicion that a child's hair is infested with lice.
  • the applied material is in the form of a gas, it can penetrate and reach all the areas of the scalp that may be infested with the lice and nits.
  • the treatment has been found to be equally effective with respect to nits (eggs) as well as lice; and still further, there is no danger of the lice developing an immunity from the treating material.
  • the novel technique may be performed using relatively inexpensive and commonly available devices.
  • the enclosure could be a head covering in the form of a plastic or rubber cap, such as a bathing cap or a hair-dryer's cap, and the inert gas used could be carbon dioxide supplied from carbon dioxide cartridges commonly used for household carbonation of water.
  • the invention also provides a device for eradicating lice and nits from an infested area in accordance with the above-described method.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a child 2, whose head is infested, or is suspected of being infested, with lice and nits, being treated in accordance with the present invention.
  • a head covering 4 such as a flexible cap
  • an inert gas is introduced into the space between the flexible cap and the child's scalp through one end of a tube 6, the opposite end of the tube including a holder 8 for a cartridge 10 of compressed carbon dioxide, such as commonly used for carbonating beverages.
  • Fig. 2 more particularly illustrates one construction that may be used.
  • the head covering 4 is preferably a flexible plastic or rubber cap, such as used in bathing or hair drying;
  • tube 6 is a flexible tube having one end secured to cap 4 so as to introduce the gas into the area of the scalp enclosed by the cap;
  • holder 8 at the opposite end of tube 6 is a conventional holder for receiving a carbon dioxide cartridge 10.
  • Holder 8 is externally threaded and is attached to an internally threaded socket 12 secured to the end of tube 6.
  • Socket 12 includes a valve operator 14 which engages a stem 16 on the cartridge 10, when the holder and cartridge are threaded socket 14 at the end of flexible tube 6, for opening the valve and thereby permitting the pressurized gas within the cartridge 10 to flow through tube 6 into the space between cap 4 and the subject's scalp.
  • Such gas cartridge holders are well known and in widespread use for introducing carbon dioxide into water or beverages.
  • the carbon dioxide (or other inert gas) introduced into the space between the cap and the subject's scalp provides an oxygen-free atmosphere with suffocates the lice and nits by depriving them of the oxygen (air) required to sustain animal life.
  • a large quantity of gas should first be introduced via tube 6 into the space enclosed by cap 4 so as to expel all the air from this space through the imperfect seal provided between the cap and the subject's scalp; and then a a smaller quantity of gas should be continuously applied to the space during the complete period of treatment so as to provide a positive pressure therein preventing the seepage of air back into the space between the cap and scalp.
  • This treatment should be continued until the lice and nits have been suffocated. It has been found that a period of 30 minutes, using about six conventional carbon dioxide cartridges, is usually sufficient.
  • cap 4 is removed, and the dead lice and nits may be removed from the scalp by conventional means, such as by shampooing and combing.

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EP86630160A 1985-11-01 1986-10-30 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Entfernen von Läusen und Nissen Withdrawn EP0221004A3 (de)

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WO2005102036A1 (en) 2004-04-20 2005-11-03 Thorsen, Roland Method and cap for treatment against lice and nits
WO2008071193A1 (en) * 2006-12-12 2008-06-19 Roland Thorsen Method and system for killing lice and nits
WO2008081462A3 (en) * 2007-01-04 2010-02-04 Menachem Ritterband Treating lice with gaseous compounds in an airtight space
EP2255778A1 (de) 2009-05-27 2010-12-01 Novomic Ltd. Behandlung von Läusen mit gasförmigen Verbindungen in einem luftdichten Raum
EP2438830A1 (de) 2010-10-10 2012-04-11 Novomic Ltd. Behandlung von Läusen mit gasförmigen Verbindungen in einem luftdichten Raum
WO2011076490A3 (de) * 2009-12-23 2012-10-11 Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa Haarstylingverfahren unter verwendung wasserbasierter haarstylingzusammensetzungen
US9307820B2 (en) 2007-01-04 2016-04-12 Novomic Ltd. Treating lice with gaseous compounds in an airtight space
NL2016074A (nl) * 2016-01-08 2017-07-12 Tralala Holding B V Inrichting voor het behandelen van een hoofd.
US10362849B2 (en) 2016-06-09 2019-07-30 Wipe & Remove Nits, LLC Lice and nit removal tool and method

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WO2005102036A1 (en) 2004-04-20 2005-11-03 Thorsen, Roland Method and cap for treatment against lice and nits
WO2008071193A1 (en) * 2006-12-12 2008-06-19 Roland Thorsen Method and system for killing lice and nits
WO2008081462A3 (en) * 2007-01-04 2010-02-04 Menachem Ritterband Treating lice with gaseous compounds in an airtight space
US9307820B2 (en) 2007-01-04 2016-04-12 Novomic Ltd. Treating lice with gaseous compounds in an airtight space
EP2255778A1 (de) 2009-05-27 2010-12-01 Novomic Ltd. Behandlung von Läusen mit gasförmigen Verbindungen in einem luftdichten Raum
WO2011076490A3 (de) * 2009-12-23 2012-10-11 Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa Haarstylingverfahren unter verwendung wasserbasierter haarstylingzusammensetzungen
EP2438830A1 (de) 2010-10-10 2012-04-11 Novomic Ltd. Behandlung von Läusen mit gasförmigen Verbindungen in einem luftdichten Raum
NL2016074A (nl) * 2016-01-08 2017-07-12 Tralala Holding B V Inrichting voor het behandelen van een hoofd.
US10362849B2 (en) 2016-06-09 2019-07-30 Wipe & Remove Nits, LLC Lice and nit removal tool and method

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