Headlice (merged)

Smiley_Mum

Apparently, Listerine, particularly the original yellow one with the highest alcohol content of nearly 27% is good at keeping them away. Wash hair, comb as normal, then soak hair in Listerine and put on a swim cap overnight and then comb through in morning. Supposed to kill everything stone dead!!! There is eucalyptus oil, methanol, antiseptic etc in it and it loosens the glue that helps the nit cling to the hair shaft which makes it easier to comb them out. The smell lingers for ages but rather that than hoaching with lice at every turn. I do kids every day, morning and night.

Garlic oil, taken internally is supposed to be of benefit also, natural antibiotic, supposed to affect the nits ability to feed and they starve to death.

Lemoncurd

A tip I was given was to tie my daughters hair tightly back for school as it makes it less likely for the lice to transfer as there isn't hair hanging loosely for them to get on to. We started doing this in September and haven't seem any lice since.
We've only ever used a Nitty Gritty comb and it worked really well, even on my long thick hair when I had quite a bad infestation.

Gil_Gingell

On b3blitz website they are offering a Free Nitty Gritty comb when you buy Blitz Head Lice shampoo and conditioner. The comb costs around £10 on other sites.

BargainGalore

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Evie82

I am at my wits end!!

For the past 4 weeks running when I do my "Sunday" check of my girls hair, one or the other has had live Lice!
I tie there hair up for school, hairspray it thick so its crispy too but still we have this issue!

At first i was using conditioner and a Nitty Gritty comb which my GP gave me and spending hours combing through. Last Sunday I went for the hard approach and used a lotion from the chemist and then combed through with nitty gritty comb.

And just this minute finished again combing through with conditioner to find 20 living lice on my youngest! So have just treated us all AGAIN - i hate using pesticides but i feel like im fighting the little critters and this is the best way now.

I have reported to school we have a recurring problem and they have done the usual note to the class thing but whats the use???

Am i out of the loop on the latest way to avoid these little bu**ers or am I in the same boat as everyone else? Please help! Im due a baby next week and my back is killing me from weeks of crouched over combing out moaning kids hair while hubby does mine.
:mad:

Threebabes

Hi

Im not going to offer much help. When my middle child, a girl, was in nursery she had them about 4 times and a couple of times in reception. THen a little girl moved school and we didnt have them again. So far my youngest is in yr 1 and shes never had them.

I would imagine its the same kids re-infecting your girls.

When I was overdue with no. 3 I had head lice!! I had to comb my hair through and the day i came out of hospital I had to treat my hair and DH had to sleep with the baby in the room with him.

Good luck with your war, its a nightmare!

:-)

dawn_rose

hiya hun sorry your having probs. cheap conditioner with tea tree oil in kills the little divils. put in at night and leave overnight comb thru in morning and wash to remove conditioner if greasy. good luck.

libbyc3

Hi evie, virtual support heading your way over headlice!!
not that its much help but all i can say is from my experience it is the type of hair your child has - i have 3 dd's and only 1 of them - and me(!) gets headlice. we both have very fine hair, although she has lots of it and mine is thin, the other 2 have very thick hair. there have been occasions when middle dd has been absolutely riddled with the blighters but the other 2 haven't had any. If there is a louse within a 5 mile raduis i swear it will find its way to middle dd head!
hederin is the only stuff i have found that works, though i have now reached the stage where i will only treat at the beginning of each school hol. other than that 4 times a week combing to try and keep on top of it i'm afraid.

anonymousie

THe only answer to this is chill and keep conditioning and combing every time you wash their hair. If there is an infected kid who isn't being dealt with at school then you're going to get them coming home.

Don't:mad: just :cool: and treat it as the annoying fact of life that it is.

If your back aches then do it on a kitchen stool with you sat behind them and a couple of big old toweks to catch the drips, infront of the TV if needed.

Don't leave it till sunday- do it more often and you'll be much more likely to stay clearer as you will catch them before eggs are laid and hatchlings occur.

TBH as there wasn't much we could do about it with DD2 (we knew who the lousy child was but she wasn't sorted by her mum) we treated it as a "girly grooming moment" and emphasised how lovely and shiny her hair was after it had been nit combed (and it was). Felt a bit like a momma chimp grooming though!

Your preg, stay away from the noxious insecticides. THey really aren't any better and if she is getting re infected at school you are stuffed!

Nitty gritty comb or a "bug busting kit" are both great and available of prescription from your GP.

fernliebee

Hiya, I had them loads when I was little as my mum would constantly be combing but no-one else bothered so I would just re-catch them again. Also my mum put it down to me being sociable and playing with lot's of children as my brother was much quieter and had one best friend through school and he didn't tend to get them as much.

What my mum found worked in the end was t-tree oil, and also you have to combe them out but work on the louse life cycle. So once a day for 3 days, then every three days after that for 2 weeks, then once a week (or when you would normally wash their hair) I think (if you google life cycle of a head louse it will prob tell you exactly right, thats just from memory) it was a pain as my hair was so long and thick but it really did work, and I never had then much after that, I had the odd occasional one, but they never get the chance to breed. Hope you manage to solve the prob they are such a pain!!