The Canadian Pediatric Society is reviewing its position on lindane-based anti-lice products and its current recommendation that they not be used on infants and children under 17.

This as environmentalists urge parents of children battling head lice to avoid over-the-counter treatments that contain the pesticide outlawed for agricultural use in dozen of countries - including Canada - because of its adverse effects on humans and the water supply

According to the website www.headlice.org/lindane , the medicine currently used by many parents on their children for lice and mites, is actually "a nerve poison," which is an "organochlorine pesticide."

Lindane is a pesticide that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to ban this August for agricultural use in the United States, yet the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still approves the sale of Lindane as a medicine to be used on childrens' heads and bodies