@jca
Actually I was referring to @ibstubro‘s choice of phrase in the original question, so I should probably addressed my post directly to him. But I’m on iPhone and have to manually type out every @ and name since the automatic drop-down doesn’t work in mobile.
But he seems to be very invested in his opinion that this author always researches things thoroughly etc. etc.
I did a cursory search before I posted my first answer and was aware of what vinegar could and could not do regarding lice.
But the Q he asked was not can vinegar ameliorate the situation but rather could it actually eliminate the lice (because apparently that’s what this particular author stated).
And the plain fact remains that while vinegar can help somewhat, it just plain can’t ELIMINATE lice. For that you’d have to kill not only the ones already there but all the eggs they’ve laid.
It’s similar to fleas. The problem is not just the ones already there. It’s the future generations of them as well.
So, vinegar may help to knock back the numbers somewhat, but that is totally different from elimination.
And just plain old common sense dictates that if vinegar did eradicate lice completely, someone would have discovered that long long before this particular author. But ibstubro apparently still thinks that this author is the “someone” who discovered the vinegar cure for lice (at least judging by his reply to me). But that’s clearly not the case.
Lice have been problematic for centuries and if simple vinegar alone killed them they wouid have been eradicated by now.