checking for nits

iammumtoone

Kaye1 wrote: »

I would suggest to the OP that you need to be checking more often- our school usually only send the letters when it reaches epidemic proportions!

Yes you are right I think we have been very lucky (son is nearly 9) I know sooner or later that luck will run out. I have never had a letter from the school advising there is an issue within the school (I know they will have them in the school - all schools do, they must just like to keep it quiet) The only letters I get are ones asking all the parents to check and treat over a weekend so in theory everyone treats at the same time.

I have ordered a nitty gritty and will start to check once a week on Sunday night with wet hair (no conditioner)

krlyr

Nargleblast wrote: »

When my two were infested we got a Robicomb. It was a metal comb in a plastic holder with a battery. As we combed the child's hair, if it came into contact with a louse it electrocuted the !!!!!!. Very satisfying it was, shaking the corpses out onto a bit of paper!

My mum ended up buying one of these too, as I was forever catching headlice (I did have bum-length hair through most of my school years so guess it was inevitable!)

The other bonus of them is that they emit a highpitched beep when running, which stops if they reach an egg/louse - so no need to keep looking at the comb to see if you've gone one, you knew from the lack of the beep.

pigpen

I found the robicomb was a pile of rubbish.. it didn't touch eggs or the tiny lice.. it didnt kill them, only stunned them regardless of what the bumf says. the nitty gritty comb is amazing by comparison.. I have 8 daughters with really long hair, most of them it is thick and crazy wavy too.

the main problem with the robicomb was it couldnt be used on wet/damp hair and we couldn't get it through dry hair.

with the routine mentioned earlier my 3 littlest haven't had lice at all despite there being several letters sent home from school and nursery... Hopefully that will continue!!