Your past post must have been before my time.
So can you use dog flea and tick shampoo? Inquiring minds want to know.
That's what I've been trying to find out.
When you wash your dog with flea and tick shampoo, you get it all over you (especially if your dog doesn't like being bathed). I've noticed that the active ingredients in dog flea and tick shampoo are different from the toxins in lice shampoo like Rid.
I've been trying (on and off) to get a difinitive answer as to whether dog flea and tick shampoo could be used in an emergency for lice in people, because--if the chemicals in this pet shampoo are different that what's found in something like Rid--then the shampoo would probably work for those lice that have evolved to become resistant to pyrethrins (the active ingredient in Rid).
I've been trying to get an answer to this puzzle from a source that I trust before running my mouth on a forum, someone tries it and then something awful happens like a reaction, something gets absorbed through the skin and somebody ends up in the hospital, and so on.
This is a big deal to me because lice spread disease, and always plague people who are refugees during SHTF conditions. Lice killed more people in WWI and WWII than bullets, mortars, flame throwers, and hand grenades combined. The diseases spread by lice can often be treated with good nursing care, fluids, and antibiotics . . . but the treatment is complicated, costly, time consuming, and uses up huge amoumts of resources. The survivors of such diseases are often debilitated for quite a while, so they are dependant upon constant care and are unable to be productive . . . often for months.
In addition, lice are also strongly suspected (but not absolutely proven, mind you) of being able to carry bubonic plague in the way that fleas do (although some things are slightly different about how the diseases are transmitted by fleas vs. lice, but these details are not relevant to my points). Bubonic plague--even though it can be treated with antibiotics--is an aggressive, nasty, extremely contagious disease, and is something that should really, really, really be avoided at all costs in a survival situation.
In my mind, the more options we have for dealing with this situation, the better.
This is why I'm intensely interested in dog flea and tick shampoo.