Publications by authors named "S L Porcelain"
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- The study aimed to test the effectiveness of five head lice treatments on killing lice and their eggs.
- Conducted in a tropical setting in Panama, lice from infested children were tested with various pediculicides shortly after collection.
- Results showed Ovide lotion was the most effective, killing lice quickly and preventing egg hatching, while 1% lindane shampoo was the least effective.
For 18 years treatment with lindane or crotamiton products has failed to stem the epidemic of scabies among the Kuna Indians in the San Blas islands of the Republic of Panama. Permethrin 5% cream was introduced as the only treatment in a programme to control scabies on an island of 756 inhabitants and involving workers recruited locally. Prevalence fell from 33% to less than 1% after every person was treated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPermethrin 5% dermal cream (Burroughs Wellcome Co.) was compared in an investigator-blinded, randomized study against lindane 1% lotion (Kwell) for the treatment of microscopically confirmed scabies. Eleven of twenty-three patients treated with permethrin cream were cured in 2 weeks (48%).
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