Headlice (merged)

Kimberley

Electronic ones do not work. All you need is a bottle of Conditioner and a nit comb from the chemist. Soak the hair in conditioner and comb through. Dry hair naturally as a hairdryer would liven the nits up again. Then comb through again with a nit comb picking the dead lice out. Thats all you need to do, all these fancy things is just a gimmick, you don't need them.

robnye

personally i think the old victorian way of dealing with nits works........ shaved heads..... ha ha... :rotfl:

we have only used chemicals once on my kids (15,12 & 9)
now we just use conditioner and a fine comb (only on the 9 yo)

nits love clean hair...... only spread through head to head contact....
1 child in my 9yo class always has them and as my daughter sits next to her all the time... so as soon as we get daughter clean..... within days she has them back again......... stroll on summer hols...... nit free hair for 7 weeks.... yippee

Kimberley

If that child always have nits Rob, then surely the school needs to educate her parents. For goodness sake your supposed to check their hair at every wash..that child poor thing needs her parents to get rid of these bleedin things..

Mine has only had them twice in all their school years because i check their hair at every wash..

Mumstheword

Mine haven't had them yet (9,4,2), but I read somewhere that they don't like coconut. i use coconut conditioner and hope that they never reach me!

Kimberley

Coconut is what i use on the kids now as i heard that, you lucky thing.

When my kids did have them i loved to pick them out of the hair and drown the beggers in water

bargainaddict

I found a repellant spray in Wilkinsons last year costing £1.79. It has really worked and FINALLY my year 9 is free from the unwelcome visitors. We have used every product on the market over the years. My fingers felt permanently sore from pulling the eggs out! Incidentally, no-one I know who has used the lotions and mousses says they have worked, so how come they are still being sold?

Becles

I used to do voluntary work in school, and one girl always had them but seemed quite proud of the fact

I was told the school cannot single out the child with nits, nor can they confront the parents about it. The most they can do is send a general letter out saying a case of nits has been found in class and can everyone check their childs head. Obviously not everyone takes this advice...... :rolleyes:

Mine are 8 and 6 and luckily they've never had them. They've both always had quite short hair, so maybe that's a cure for boys?

modgit

My boys have just had them (7,4) and easily got rid of - short hair, but have delighted in passing them on to me, good old mom. So at the ripe age of 35 am having my first battle with them! I unfortunately have very long hair, and it's taking hours a day to comb through, great.
Any ideas how many days from first day of not finding one that I can stop? Or do I continue for ever.......

Kimberley

Modgit you continue for at least a week, if you have a partner get him to pick any live ones or the eggs out of your head If you have just caught the nits then you shouldn't have too many there and the nits wouldn't have laid too many eggs

Kimberley

Becles wrote:

I used to do voluntary work in school, and one girl always had them but seemed quite proud of the fact

I was told the school cannot single out the child with nits, nor can they confront the parents about it. The most they can do is send a general letter out

To be honest if a parent does not take action as soon as nits are detected then i'd call it neglect. How can a parent let a child keep getting nits? If the child keeps getting them then it's obvious the parents are not getting rid of the nits properly. Also if the child keeps getting nits then the parents should check their hair at every wash There is no excuse to let your child suffer like this..the child may not be bothered, but she will in secondary school if kids get to know about it.. Fleabag is what kids call them

I think the schools should pull the parents up to be honest, or get the school nurse to give them a visit :rolleyes: