December 06, 2005

Head Lice Treatment Was Cetaphil Cleanser

Dale Pearlman received 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 ... But in a letter to the editor for release Monday in Pediatrics, Pearlman says the treatment "was actually Cetaphil cleanser," available over the counter internationally, and made by a company he has nothing to do with. (Washington Post)

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