Don't know if it is true or not, but a special newspaper I get from overseas has a section where people send in their tips & questions about everything & anything (I've learnt a lot from there... like if you want to boil and egg but don't want the shell to crack - put in 1 - 2 matchsticks (something wood) into the water)

Anyway, somebody said on there the best way to get rid of nits is to smother the hair in sour cream for 15 mins (don't let it touch the skin, somebody else wrote in the next week and said if yo leave it on skin after 15 mins it burns??) and then comb out, apparently it works.

We haven't had lice for 2 years here (going well, but when DS had curly hair that when straighten went almost to his waist he got them, and it took around 3 weeks of treatments to get rid of them... luckily now he has short hair and we haven't had it since, and DD has really slow growing boy length hair (i wish they got the hair the other way around ) anyway, so I can't try it to see if it is true, but would love to know if it does work. A few people wrote in and said it worked.