How to get rid of Body Lice?

Hello, I'm battling these demons a few moths now. Many people post they have body lice hardly cone back and tell us what they did to get rid of them. I'm feeling desperate as these posts. I thew all of my clothes and a few new clothes. Wash all of I can with hottest water after soaking them in ammonia. All of my work clothes to dry cleaner. Thew away bed a shot futon sofa. I covered the futon with bed bug mattress encasing. I vacuum everyday and thew away sweepers. My boyfriend and my dog are not get bothered as much as I have been. I take epsom salt baths twice a day. All of my clothes are in bag or in tight sealed containers.i vacuum my car everyday but my car is fully infested. Now my work too. Please everyone shared how get rid of them.

Hello, I hope you and your mom are doing well. I just read your post. Wre you able to get rid of them? If you did, please kindly share with us. I'm having very very hard time get rid of them. Thank you,

Hello prevo,

My boyfriend and I are having really bad case of body lice. We are cleaning everything and wash all our worn clothes and hot water and hot hot dryer. They infested my car and I started feeling them at my work. Even we wear clean clothes as soon as get in car they land on us. I can see a lots of tiny white specks everywhere around my at work. PC , iPhone and desk. I clean like crazy but I feel it gets worse. Permethrin cream or ivermectin don't work. I vacuum everyday and clean walls and ceiling. My car, I really can't go crazy like pesticides. Is listen won't stain car interiors? Please share with us in more details how you get rid of them and also how log it took, thank you

Go to a farm supply side an get a bottle of dog dip it will not harm u at all but will do the job

I am presently going through the exact same thing, first of all ,you may think twice about who you help! First of all i am a married male almost 60 years old, because of a lifetime of advanced liver conditions I have a compromised immune system secondly I have itching and blemishes that can actually mimic, bed bug bites, scabies, lice, mites and flea bites! So for starters i established that it was bedbugs because she stayed at our place 1 night secondly it is defiantly the clothes thirdly i actually caught them, ,no problem right.?extirminator in bed bugs out! So my bed bug bites are healed after about 3 weeks. Now my next problem as we speak i apparently have lice on my head specific areas on my face. Neck, ears nose and eyes, as I am clean shaven, including my head, I still have itching in said ares but it is very hard to find and see these tiny things!

I'm in the same boat sailing away to hell. Never seen nothing like this! I'm getting ready to give up my apartment and get a room until I get these things out of my life. Iv

What about your home? You must get them out of your house or the problem still persists

How did you get rid of them

Hello i know this is an old thread but you ever find a way to get rid of the body lice?? I'm in desperate need of advice.

It sounds like you have Morgellons check out " how I cured Morgellons"

Can I use white vinegar because that's all I got

*Neem seed oil mixed with un-refined coconut oil, 20 - 30 drops of Neem oil mixed with 3 heaping tablespoons of coconut oil, make a paste with it, spread all over your body from chin down, leave on for a minimum of 30 minutes the longer you leave it on the better it works, I know it makes ya smell like a wet dog but it kills both adults and eggs.

*You can use Neem seed oil directly on the skin or mix it with coconut oil which aids in the absorption of the Neem oil, you can also mix 10 - 20 drops with 1oz-2oz of warm water add to mister spray from chin down leave on over night.

Tea Tree Oil, Lemon Oil and un-refined Coconut Oil make a paste with it 5 drops each oils mixed with 3 heaping tablespoons of the un-refined coconut oil, take a Luke warm to cold shower rub on your body from chin down, kills adults and eggs leave on over night.

You can also add lavender oil to any of these mixes if your suffering from the dreaded night itching or mix with water and a cheap mister and spray on affected areas.

Hope it helps.

I realize this is almost 8 years later, but someone might find this helpful. According to Theresa, vinegar just helps the lice eggs/nits to hatch faster and makes the problem worse. I know it didn't help me one bit and stung my skin. Various treatments, including prescriptions for permethrin 5% and ivermectin, and things mentioned on internet blogs, have not resolved the body lice issue. Since I had some success with the combination of coconut and neem oil poured directly on my skin, I added both to a jar of Cetaphil Soothing Gel Cream with Aloe. Dump the body cream into a bowl, add about 1/8 cup (I didn't measure) of each oil and whisk until thoroughly blended. Put what will fit back into the jar and store the rest in another jar. (From my experience, body creams containing petroleum and mineral oil are very irritating to skin.) The aloe in it makes it just a little sticky and maybe that's why it works better than anything else I've used. Apply the mixture liberally to any area that itches including the scalp because they hide in the hair and travel down the body. Check your skin after about 20 minutes and you'll see a lot of die-off. A magnifying mirror/glass and bright light helps. This mixture seems to dissolve the exoskeleton because the lice lose their shape and flatten out. I also launder all clothing worn and bedding used daily by first soaking in scalding hot water (150 degrees) for an hour or more in the laundry sink then doing a quick wash with hot water in the machine and dry on hottest setting. I found out the hard way that a front-loading washing machine cannot kill the lice because there's not enough water to soak the material. I enclosed my pillows in plastic bags after cleaning them and put the pillowcase over that. Then daily, I either wipe the plastic bag with disinfectant or change the bag with a new one before putting on a fresh pillowcase. For my mattress, after spraying it and the mattress topper, I enclosed it with a good quality mattress protector. That works for bedbugs but not lice so every day I put fresh plastic sheeting on it that I cut from a .7 mil, 9' x 12' roll (used as drop cloth by painters). I've been dealing with this problem for over a year (contamination happened away from my home) but because I've been very diligent about cleaning and not using any other furniture except my leather office chair (wipe down/use plastic on it also) and don't share any towels, sheets, or anything I touch (except dishware), the lice have not spread past me to my family. Doctors (I've been to four) don't have the answers to these super-lice so they just believe I'm delusional. Wish I could share my resident lice with them and see what they'd have to say then. Maybe an actual solution would be discovered if medical researchers looked into it.