Headlice (merged)

happy2woo

This is one of my real bug bears! :rotfl: I've got a son with very long hair (down to his waist) and never having experienced head lice before thought he would be marched at arms length down to grannys' to sort out. However I'd now happily go through the whole school with a nit comb!

Have to say we've never had a problem, all I do is go through his hair every day after it's brushed with a brilliant METAL nit comb. That way if any lice are picked up at school they are removed before chance of laying eggs.

Just a few minutes part of everyday routine has meant he has never had any more than one freshly caught louse on his head. Makes me really angry that if only everyone bothered to do this there wouldn't be a problem, no child would be infested to such a degree that lice were big enough and in such quantities as to be passed on to someone else!

Good luck with your delousing, I reccomend the metal combs as they dont bend going through hair and can remove eggs as well. keep going through every other day for a few weeks to remove any new hatchlings from eggs you might have missed and if you've got children pleeeese go through their hair with the comb daily with the nit comb as part of brushing to save you and other families this (preventable) problem

Sorry this seems long and a bit of a rant but a few minutes every day can really prevent the situation you're in now. I know I'd hate to think my child could pass them onto someone else, or be seen to have one(or more) on him- eeeurgh!!

juno

I'm not old enough to have children!

I've told my bf, as his dad is a teacher and thus he seems the most likely source.

Bossyboots

juno wrote:

I'm not old enough to have children!

I've told my bf, as his dad is a teacher and thus he seems the most likely source.

Anyone you have had reasonably close contact with could be responsible but I agree a teacher is more likely than most.

I hope he wont be offended when your bf asks him though.

zodiac

Ive used tee-tree oil and vinegar, rubbed it in and washed out and repeated it a few times.
Saying that I only had them once, but my head is itching now........

Mr_Skint_2

I have head lice but they keep me company on cold nights....

happy2woo

It could be your bf's dad, I have a teacher friend who is forever catching them. Shouldn't be too difficult to approach as it's part of the territory for him. I'd run your comb through your bf's hair first though as if his dad has them they've prbably been passed via bf. If not dad then still check incase you've passed them to HIM

Could be from anyone with close access to young children or even care homes really. Only takes a hug or heads together playing or sat at a desk. Don't be too embarrassed telling people you've had close contact with - I'd much rather someone say and have the chance to check early than be left to find out when become infested (as happened to my brother a few weeks after rolling around with friends children!)

Don't worry about it, while your treating them you're not going to pass them on as you're removing any live lice (it's only the 'walkers' that are contagious) and you now know how to recognise, treat and most important PREVENT them when you do have children :rotfl: -I was terrified at the prospect of finding them and several times phoned mum wondering if they had wings or if a cornfly could be headlice! Would now be quite happy to go through all the little darlings who have been known to play with them as they're dropping onto the desk!!!!

juno

Well, I wasn't sure if I had them when I started this thread, but I found hundreds! I think I've combed them all out now though.

And Eccles has checked his feathers, and he doesn't think he has any. He always has to join in when I preen myself.

juno

Ooooh, I've remembered I had a question!

Once they're on the comb, how do you get them off? I tried wiping with a tissue and that didn't work. And running them under the tap wasn't that effective either. I ended up hitting them with the other comb. Is there a better method?

jockettuk

aliasojo wrote:

This is very true.

However.........personally I would want to blast the little b****rs with every poisonous chemical known to man then I would comb them out and set fire to them.

Maybe that's just me though...........

:rotfl:

you and every parent in the whole world lol.. trouble is the little gits get used to all the chemicals and they dont do the kids scalps any good long term... me ive had more success with the conditioner and nit comb with my daughter

jockettuk

juno wrote:

Ooooh, I've remembered I had a question!

Once they're on the comb, how do you get them off? I tried wiping with a tissue and that didn't work. And running them under the tap wasn't that effective either. I ended up hitting them with the other comb. Is there a better method?

i use a little make up brush to get them off the comb then i squash them between my nails and if you hear a crack they nits and they dead. so they cant reinfest.. my mother did this and i thought at the time yuk but now im the mother lol