Os Treatment For Nits

mr.fixit

Hpoefully one of you old style ladies, or gents, can help me. Wife has just discovered our eldest girl has a few head lice and is now having the screaming ad dabs! Anyone got a fail safe method of exterminating the little blighters - without doing serious damage to the child?

Sorry if anyone is feeling itchy, its times like these i'm glad i'm a bloke with very little hair.

Lorian

Try this thread.

frosty

when my children got them I would use heaps of conditioner,the lice find it slippery and lose their grip,so you can comb them out with a nit comb,the eggs are hard to remove,I use to slide them off with my nails.I have also tried the nit comb that electrocutes them (the head lice not the child) :eek: its was fun watching them spark on the comb, (I need to get out more)

thriftlady_2

I had success with a natural treatment called Mother Earth.I got it from the chemists,it's a little bottle of essential oils.There's one to use as a deterrent too.Very easy to use,lasts a long time,smells nice and is not sheep dip(like malathion).

mr.fixit

frosty wrote:

(I need to get out more)

I'm saying nowt, just grateful for your advice :rolleyes:

Westywoodpecker

I agree with Frosty. My children both had these at the same time but I got rid by using a thick conditioner ( I used St Ives) and a comb. No chemicals were needed. This works by breaking the cycle. HTH Jackie

Pink.

As the link Lorian provided is quite recent, I'll merge both threads together because it makes it easier for readers to find all the replies in one place.

I don't know how well it works at getting rid of them but I've been using Frosty's conditioner suggestion as a preventative measure for the last couple of years and so far so good! Good luck with getting rid of them mr.fixit.

Pink

Penny-Pincher!!

Using hair straightners have stopped DD getting them for 6 months now.

PP
xx

Chipps

Curry_Queen wrote:

<scratch scratch> ... anyone else itching like mad reading this thread???

Yes, Me!

I found with our kids, and also with my own long hair, the combing method was the best. Daily. Until a good couple of weeks after the last appearance of the little visitors.

When my hair was much longer even than it is now, I almost invariable got some "guests" after a weeks Holiday Club at church, :eek: now my hair is shoulder length it doesn't get close enough to the children for the bugs to cadge a lift!

ted_ted

I use tea tree shampoo/conditioner on my childre's hair. This tend to keep the little bli.....s at bay(they don't like the smell apparently) works well. It is a little know fact in this country try it nothing to lose. U Can get the shamp/cond at boots and Asda.
Good luck all you bug busters