head lice treatments - help

[BellyBelly]

No treatment out there kills eggs - only live lice. So they've either hatched or heads have been incontact from someone else with it. Make sure you treat the whole family - you too.

Article on the main site: https://www.bellybelly.com.au/child

Natural treatments are effective - you just need to re-treat to get the hatched eggs as any preparation. Better than harsh chemicals - insecticide - on kids heads.

Good luck

[Netix]

I am back to using phenryl ? Something like that. Whilst it's probably not as natural as would be preffered, it jas very little smell, which makes using it on ds's hair possible. I had some natural mousse, which smelled very strongly, and being that ds hates having his hair washed at the best of times, that was simply awful.

To sidetrack slightly, last week/weekend I babysat a friend's 3y.o. boy (for several days, including overnights), and I saw him scratching a lot but discounted the idea of lice as I know his Mum is so consciencous (sp) and attentive of nits in his hair, especially as at his usual daycar there is a child who 'constantly' has them. Oh my goodness, wasn't I sorry when I finally did check his hair! The poor boy, I felt awful! Treated him, and my two all in the bath together, and the Man picked up a comb set and this phenryl stuff so i could do it when he got home. I'm not sure about how other parents feel, but I honestly didn't have a problem with it. I know his Mum does everything she can to control them, so we just dealt with them, and moved on. Our poor friend though was so upset knowing that her child had passed them onto our kids. Sorry, hijack over.

[AnyDream]

The most important part of the treatment is the bit where you comb thru to get all the nits/eggs out. You can use oil or conditioner to dissolve the glue that holds the eggs to the hair shaft, but you need to divide the hair into sections and comb thru carefully from the scalp, wiping each time to remove eggs/dead lice from the comb. Repeat every 3 or so days until no more eggs or critters appear.