Grr headlice again!!

Last day of the term last year. I found headlice in Ashton's hair. I pulled around 30 odd live lice from his hair, 2 from my own and a couple from Kameron's. Ashton had slept in the same bed as both Kameron and I the night before. I then proceeded to treat the whole family, hot wash sheets etc and all that joyful stuff you have to do.

I thought back and remembered he had used a brush belonging to one of my best friends kids a couple days prior, and wondered if that was how he caught them. I spoke to my friend to let her know that he had lice, and she said "oh i've lost count how many times my kids have had it these holidays" I know for a fact she doesn't wash bedding and doesn't treat the WHOLE family after one of her kids has it. She had admitted that in a previous conversation about lice.

Ashton was scratching last night, and Andrew said "oh he was scratching a bit today as well" I checked his hair last night and couldnt' see anything. He scratched again this morning, so I sat him down and found a live lice. So I did the whole conditioner and running comb through and ended up pulling out 3 live lice. Then started with the whole treating etc again :wall:

The thing is. The kid who I suspect he got it from after using her brush before, he was with for a few hours on Friday afternoon. I also noted her scratching at school on pick up one day during the week. Can't remember if that was the same day or the day prior though.

I am getting so I am really resenting Ashton playing with my best friends child if he is going to get lice when he does. It just seems to coincidental that prior to Friday the last time they played together he got lice as well.

What do you use? I swear by plain vinegar.. Let them sit in the bath for a little bit then rinse and then wash with conditioner and comb with the conditioner in..

Do that every day till they are gone then at least once a week while school is on or each time he plays with said child.. Make sure you wash his hair throuroughly afterwards

It sucks doesn't it! My pet peeve is people who don't treat lice properly. I also found them in DD2's hair the day after school finished last year. It's taken me all holidays to get rid of them, then i found 1 in her hair again on Friday night! Do they ever go?

I do the conditioner first on dry hair to remove any live bugs, then wash that out. I then blow dry their hair and use MOOV head lice treatment which has to stay in their hair with a shower cap on for 10 mins I usually leave it a tad longer. It is meant to kill anything I have left behind including eggs. I then wash that out with shampoo and re condition.

I then do it all again a week later.

I had slackened off with putting the spray in their hair which is meant to help prevent, so I will have to get back into routine of doing that now prior to school. Kameron my oldest, is in the same class as my best friends middle girl as well. So I think I might have to keep an eye on him too.

oh my, i could have written this post myself!

4 days before xmas my ds was invited to a bday party, they asked my dd to attend to keep the bday boy sister company, well lil did i know, that she had nits, and being school holidays i didnt do my usual friday nit check, and two weeks later her hair was full of lil crawly suckers.

We have killed them all using moov, but her long to her butt brown hair is sooo full of eggs, i just dont have time to sit there and pull them all out, it takes weeks just to do a section of her hair.

Then the same kids come to my house a few weeks later and mum tells me she treated them last night cause she found the crawlys after i asked that if they had them they didnt come to my house!

We need a mothers unite against nits commitee, lol


i do the same as u, the conditioner treatment and the moov, also i have heard that spraying hairspray can help prevent them as well.