$285 Experimental Lice Treatment "Actually Cetaphil Cleanser"...

$285 Experimental Lice Treatment "Actually Cetaphil Cleanser"...

Parents who paid $285 for an experimental head lice treatment for their children might be scratching their own heads, now that the doctor selling the stuff says it's really a skin cleanser available for under $10 a bottle at drug stores across the United States.

Dr. Dale Pearlman got widespread media attention and skepticism from some head lice experts last year when the journal Pediatrics published his study detailing results with a product he called Nuvo lotion. He described it as a "dry-on suffocation-based pediculocide" and the first in a new class of nontoxic lotions for head lice.

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