Headlice (merged)

Rachel83

Get the Nitty Gritty comb from most pharmacys/boots I'm sure I read a while ago you could get it on prescription from the doctors?
Do there hair every day usually takes about 2 weeks to get rid of them use lots of conditioner
Also maybe swap the kids shampoo and conditioner to a tea tree one supposed to keep them at bay.

I keep my little girls hair up in piggy tails not sure if this helps or not but puts my mind at ease and I check her hair regularly just incase, usually friday after school. Hope it helps

BOBS

nitty gritty comb

... thats the one we have it is excellent ...

we are having problems with nits too i get them clear and within a day or 2 they are back

.. u are probably not getting rid of all the eggs ... you need to keep using nit comb and conditioner until no eggs left by repeating at least every other day... check behind ears you will usually see small white specks which are the eggs .. try pulling off hair between your fingers but they really hang onto the hair - conditioner helps them slide off.

Krystaltips

Tea tree repels them and apparently a light spray of hair spray helps too... The clean haor thing is a myth, they'll get into any hair... The best thing to do is religious combing with lots of conditioner in the hair to help the comb slide through... Avoid the pesticides as the lice tend to become immune to them after a while...

nikki702

Nitty Gritty comb and cheap tesco tea tree conditioner thats what keeps em away!

lostinrates

No advice, but sympathy to your wife and congratulations to you both on such a beautiful family

If it makes your wife feel any better my neices lived with me at early school age and hsad nits and I remember the nit tears-from me- oh so well! I bet a lot of mothers are reading this and nodding! It was a long war, but we won in the end. As will your wife.

Toto

I can totally sympathise. We must have been the only family in the school who treated our kids for lice, they seemed to come back with them weekly. To be honest, it's a case of a good comb, nitty gritty is great and combing them every time they have a bath, daily is better. This will go on until they leave primary school, well, in my experience anyway.

You have beautiful children and please don't shave your boys head, he looks adorable with his hair. Just comb him the same as you do with the girls and you will get on top of it.

bumpybecky

have you checked all the adults in the house too? and grandparents and other relatives who are in close contact

3KIDSNOMONEY

hi, nits are such a pain.

definitely recommend the nitty gritty comb - you just have to persevere and keep treating them i'm afraid. When my girls were younger i used to make them wear their hair up which seemed to help.

Please don't get upset about them as they are harmless.

redmandarin

Please tell your wife to not worry, all children get head lice at some time or another. Its nothing to be ashamed of - lice only choose the cleanest hair!

When my daughter caught head lice, everyone in the family got them! Lice travel and spread like wildfire, through head contact, hugging, cuddles, kids huddling together/playing games or someone with long hair brushing against you or by sharing combs and brushes. This is why your children keep getting re-infected.

Its important to treat everyone in the family with head lice lotion/shampoo, (not Vosene) check all heads daily, (for signs of anything moving) and keep applying treatment, according to instructions on the bottle, and also using the lotion to clean combs and brushes regularly.

If your children are getting repeated attacks, then it is important to contact the school and inform them that there is a problem. I did this, but the head teacher of the school, wasn't interested! So I contacted our local education authority, who sent a nurse to the school a few days later. The children were examined and written instructions were sent via each child, telling parents how to deal with the problem. The lice attacks stopped happening shortly after.

Keep persevering with the treatments, contact the school for assistance, so that other children with head lice can be identified and treated (or contact the local education authority, if necessary) and the problem will soon be addressed. Best of luck!

One last thing - lice get used to particular brands of lotion and they can become resistant to treatment, so changing to a different type might be helpful.

ALIBOBSY

On that grow your own drugs last night he made a natural lotion to use. It should be on bbc iplayer to watch and the recipes are usually listed. The mum on the program seemed to think it worked. Headlice are rife in all schools across the country. Mass treatment with chemical insectacides has made around 70-80% of them immune to those treatments sadly. Defo try with the combing on a frequent basis. DD1 keeps bringing them back from school. Managed so far to stop DS me and OH and DD2 getting them by checking daily, if you keep catching them early they don't get a chance to get settled and start laying eggs. We have all had odd ones but thats all, but DD1 seems to be very prone to them. The school nurse reckons they just prefer some people and they don't know why, but anyone can get them. The teachers all seem to have had them as well.

ali x