Headlice (merged)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

That's the appeal of them, and you get to do the ones that they can't reach.

The lady who does my threading reckons I should have been a beautician, as she says most are like me (strange and twisted, I suspect!)

milliemonster

mrcow wrote: »

Millie - I'm feeling really sorry for your daughter. It must be just horrible.

I can't understand why a hairdresser won't cut her hair though?

Surely encountering headlice are a bonus of the job? It's not as if they don't clean their equipment.

I agree about trimming it yourself. I'd do it in a shot if the condition was getting bad.

They tell me its for health and safety reasons, cos obviously they use the same combs etc on other people and don't want to pass them on.

I'm going to have a go at trimming her hair, I had made her an appt for next week and will prob have to cancel that now!!!

bestpud

mrcow wrote: »

Serves you right for clicking on a headlice thread! You know you're going to come away from here itching!

Lol, that's ok.

It's the talk of squeezing things that churned my stomach!

LouLou

This is a remedy I found online, and it sorts it for me (kept catching them from my young niece).

Spray Listerine (the original one, not the flavoured variety) in your hair, comb it though, wrap it in a towel for a few hours, or overnight if possible.

Then rinse your hair with white vinegar, apparently it kills the glue that enable lice to grip to the hair shaft. Wash as normal. If it's really bad you might need to do it a few times, but it works!

The Nitty Gritty comb can be obtained for free on the NHS, their website has a printable form to hand to your GP. Hope it ends your head lice woes!

froggy27_2

Dont' have much to add but just want to say that i know how you feel... same for us.. DD is 5 and her hair is driving me crazy..i comb her hair every day, twice a week with conditioner and still they come back... it's ok during the hols but then as soon as she's back at school... the visitors are back!! So DH and me have to check as well...and i'm scratching just talking about it!! Nitty Gritty comb is good tho.....Courage and patience...

JBD

I have found rinsing with dettol diluted in warm water helps. If you add a capfull to a jug of warm water [see bottle for exact amount] and pour it over head as a final rinse. It does feel a little 'burning' for a few minutes after but no lasting harm. you do have to comb the eggs out after, but it is good fir killing the live ones.

Spendless

milliemonster wrote: »

lovely!

Thanks for the advice guys, I did used to do my dd's hair everyday but both my GP and HV told me that daily was pointless as the life cycle is 3-5 days and combong doesn't get the eggs out anyway, so every 3 days was sufficient??? perhaps I better go back to everyday for now.

Its funny how my ds and myself never get them but poor dd is constantly infested. She was clear about a week ago (I had had a full week of getting nothing out of her hair) but she has been back at school for just a week and has them again.

I will go through her hair everyday for the next couple of weeks again to try to get rid of them

so fed up!

my bf makes me mad, her dd always gets them, but she will comb through her hair once and then not follow it up and then lo and behold a few weeks later she is teaming with them again.

Some combs don't get them out, (pretty sure the nitty gritty one does though). The thing is if you miss one (very easy to do!) that then grows big enough to lay eggs and then don't do it for a few days and then use a comb that doesn't get rid of eggs then you constantly have a life cycle. So you need to get rid of the eggs or the lice before they become big enough to lay eggs.

nickj_2

i used tea tree oil on my daughters when they were at primary school
used a really fine comb made by derbac , i always made them sit under a really bright light so you can see the eggs . you need to do this either everyday or every other day and then for a few days after you think you've got the last one
also make sure your girls hair is tied back or put it in a pony tail
don't waste money on shampoos

fernliebee

Intastella wrote: »

You know, i actually offered to go and check the kid's heads for nowt at my daughter's old school beacause i was so sick of getting rid of them, and then coming back a week later (my daughter was also getting blamed for it coz i was a punk :rolleyes: )...they said that they couldn't because it would be classed as assault :mad:

Ha ha! must be a punk thing then, cos my mum used to do all the kids in our street when we were being done (said it was easier, as she was more likely to get rid of them), like the resident nit nurse, and she was a punk too! If anything she was way OTT with us, because she was always being judged as a 'bad parent' because of the way she dressed (20 yrs ago now) As soon as people met her, or got to know her they were fine though, just pink mohicans in the 80's didn't go down too well with the power dressing yummy mummies! lol!

It is ridiculous, surely it is more of an assault to leave a child lousy, you can eventually get blood poisoning from scratching with dirty fingers too! It is a crazy world eh!

skint_flint_2

Urghh nits
The wee man got his first lot a few weeks ago within 2 months of starting school. honestly 4 years of private nursery mixing with children of all ages and no nits - 8 weeks into school and he had blooming nits. I was disgusted tbh.And he has fine blond lovely hair too, so was not hard to see the little blighters. Used tea tree shampoo and conditioner and combed morning and night for about 2 weeks. No more nits......yet. Found one in my hair , crawling along happily really put me off. Luckily me and my partner havent seen any in our hair.