Headlice (merged)

cloverfan

daska wrote: »

try threatening her with having her hair cut really short so that combing it doesn't take so long...

tried that ..............

half hour later ......."mummy?" hairs on back on of my neck stand up and i turn around slowly "look that better mummy?" she was so proud of that hair cut BUT I however was :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: now i look on it and :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: but seriously 18 months later its still short but she hasnt had a hair cut yet!!!!!

really not keen on having it touched,fiddled with,brushed,washed combed out nothing not hair bands clips or anything. tried everything her own special shampoos and conditioners her own big girl nitty gritty,dollys have theres done etc... i do hers while she does her sisters she does mine then i can do hers NOTHING WORKS:mad:

cloverfan

JBD wrote: »

I would like to recommend Vosene shampoo for kids, 3 in 1, with conditioner and head lice repellent. Also they do a leave in spray which I am going to try when I can get hold of some. The shampoo is quite expensive but seems to do the trick.

OOOh off to superdrug tommorrow then I will be!:A

JBD

Cloverfan, I should have specified that the Vosene doesn't actually kill the lice but stops them returning. I think this may be helpful for those children who have very thick hair or who hate having their hair done, like my DD. She is autistic and hates having her's brushed or combed but I think this shampoo has prevented her from being reinfected. Hope it helps.

mccarthy93

I really need help. My two teenage daughters have had nits for years. I comb, use lotions, chemicals, and everything I can think of. I manage to get rid of live ones, only for them to come back a week or two later, but the real problem I have is with my eldest daughter. Her hair is absolutely riddled with white eggs, which I believe are dead ones? But she has thousands of these in her hair, thousands is not an exaggeration, and combing will not remove them, it's like they are welded onto her hair. I use a nit comb and you can hear the comb going through her hair, the only way I can think to describe it is that her hair sounds 'crusty' - a bit like when you have used loads of hairspray in her hair and then comb it out. I am at my wits end, tonight again I've been trying and nothing is working. I am so close to shaving her hair off, but she is 16 and I just can't do that! I don't know what else to do. Please can someone help?

PrincessPlaty

Lots of conditioner and daily combing with the nit comb keep doing it til they are gone it really is the only way to be clear of them!

finnigan

cloverfan wrote: »

anyone have any ideas how to get DD aged 4 to have hair combed out?

Each evening sit her down in front of you and use a very soft brush on her hair, go slowly and make it a theraputic / calming experience. The hair won't get properly brushed but it gets her used to having her hair handled in a gentle manner.
Then when you want to comb her properly start with the soft brush to relax her, tease any knots out by hand and then nit comb as gently as possible. I do this sitting on the floor with DD in front of me with a duvet over her, another way of associating hair combing with peace and comfyness lol.

dizziblonde

Believe me - teachers hate this problem too (because we don't like ending up with 'em!). There's honestly, hand on heart, minimum stuff we can do about the problem - we can have words with parents commenting that "is X ok, she seems to have been writhing at her head like it's really bugging her all day", I used to have a huge bag of cheap hair bobbles I'd hand out to kids to keep on the blatant excuse of PE days etc - but mainly to get hair tied back out of the way and try to reduce the spreading - but depending on your headteacher, you may get one taking an ultra hardline and asking parents to keep kids off until clear (but they're on dicey ground really), or the usual ones who just have to repeatedly send the nit letter out to the entire class and try desperately to organize whole school nit-combing nights where the entire parent base does their heads on the same evening.

It's crap, it's vile when you're doing a story time and can see a wildlife safari going on in the heads in front of you - and it's flipping rotten when you've got teachers sat in the staffroom checking each other's heads like a chimpanzee mutual grooming session - and all you can do is repeatedly flag up that there's a massive problem with certain kids - but it's never severe enough to get support being dealt with.

I'm incredibly lucky in that, despite having the nittiest class in the school on a couple of occasions, lice don't seem to like my hair at all - but I do swear by that Original Source mint and teatree shampoo (the blow yer head off strong one) as a nice deterrent factor, and I check my own hair with a comb about once a week or so just in case... always amazes me how you see endless primary teachers with long hair hanging down around their backs while working with the kids - mine's tied as far up as it's possible to get it!!!

It's something schools need some teeth to be able to deal with to be honest - and that needs to come from higher up than within the school hierarchy.

Oh and never tie wet little boy's shoelaces when it's not been raining - ewwwwwwwww.

Nelmer

Hiya,
This is a quick write and run so apologies if anyone else has posted the same.
We had the same problem with my step DD when she was a teenager. I started using an aloe vera shampoo and conditioner and we never had a problem again....and it had been a recurring problem for over 2 years before that.

HTH

salesaddict

So glad I found this thread. My 8 year old dd has the loveliest thickest hair down to her waist. It is a nightmare to comb through with the nitty gritty comb and she gets really upset. I have just finished my second dose of hedrin. If this doesn't work I think I will try the Olive oil treatment. Good luck to everyone else fighting the same batte. I was getting really wound up with the mums of the kids who seem to be constantly infected. But having read everyone elses experiences i think i will calm down about this now.

mazza111

I always used Hedrin on my lad, but remember it only kills the lice, not the eggs, so will need to be used again a week later.