Head Lice

[Tinks]

My girls are always coming home from school with headlice. So I spend days and weeks getting rid of them only to find 6 weeks to 2 mths later they are infested again....

So my question is not how to get rid of them but how to keep them away?

[AnyDream]

Welcome to the merry-go-round.

My DD was constantly coming home crawling with them. In the end I found the only thing i can really do is check once a week and then comb thru every second day until they are gone, with a nice herbal product like Wild Child or QuitNits. There are prevention sprays/oils that you can use in their hair as well but I think that keeping their hair tied back and trying to teach them not to huddle in with their friends should also help.

[Hollybolly]

Once you get rid of them, theres a little mix you can make up yourself that my naturopath suggested.

Buy one if those spray bottles from the cheapy shops, and mix 10 drops of peppermint oil & 5 drops of tea tree oil (essential oils) into about 200mL of water.

She said to just spray into the hair a couple of times a day - when they walk out the door for school and when they come home.

The tea tree oil is slippery in the hair so they can't stay in there.. and the peppermint is a deterent.. they don't like it.

We use the same mix on our dogs for fleas/ticks, and we don't seem to have an issue.

You can breathe a sigh of relief soon as its school holidays - no headlice for a month & a half... YAY!!!!!!

[Tinks]

You can breathe a sigh of relief soon as its school holidays - no headlice for a month & a half... YAY!!!!!!

YAYYYYY!!

I am going to try that solution, thanks Holly.

I used to make one similar, which worked for a while, maybe they got used to it?