sorry if this is in the wrong section i was torn between here, school and punching bag
DD1 has come home with headlice 5 times since starting school yep 5 times!!! Now this school has no more than 60 students so you would think it would be easy to keep on top of. I spoke to the campus head (the teacher we have been having problems with) she said she would put something in the newletter (2 newsletters later and nothing) she also said a school without headlice is like a bbq without sausages ... wtf thats your approach to it? Fair enough in a city school with hundreds of kids but 60 come off it!
Anyway for her to come home that many times with lice it seems a lot of parents either dont care, arent getting rid of them properly or not checking there childs hair at all. Now there is this one kid at school in grade 2 and shes a leech as soon as we walk in there shes all over DD2 trying to pick her up a very very in your face child shes like that with kids of all ages and adults, i know at school she wont leave DD1 alone and i have a suspision this is where the lice are mainly coming from shes a very, how do i say it nicely, neglected child not so much neglected but her hairs never brushed, appearance is very unkept (??)
So i have come to the conclusion after discovering this morning DD2 also has lice and we cant even wash DD2s hair with no tears shampoo without everyone thinking we are murdering our child, so i think the nit shampoo is a huge no for her. Does anyone know a no chemical solution i can make up at home to help rid DD2 or lice and that i can also spray in DD1s hair before school to deter the lice?
Also any other tips to be free of the critters will be fantastic!
a vinegar and water solution with a few drops of tea tree oil, in a spray bottle, spray on before school,to get rid of crawlies, smother hair in conditioner and comb through, with nit comb, do eery day or night etc, for a week, then 3 times a week for the next few weeks...till the cycle is done.
One of the girls I used to work with, had the same prob with one of her daughters who kept getting them, what I mentioned above is what she did, also keeping the childs hair up, in a tight bun (harder for them to get in) and liberally spraying with hairspray (i know its not really natural, but it worked for her)
The shampoo and conditioner I buy in 1 litre containers and i think it's called a base shampoo. They have some on ebay for around $10, if you search unscented shampoo it will come up. I've just had a look, there isn't any conditioner on there though. When you make the shampoo up with the oils make sure it's in a coloured clear or opaque container so the oils last. The same goes for the spray bottle.
Oh I'm so over it too
Mine have been free for about 2 weeks now, other than the odd one or 2. I can finally say today that they are also free completely of eggs (dead & alive)!
I have 2 sprays to do their hair in the mornings. Water & conditioner in one, & water with a few drops of both lavender & tea tree oil in the other. When I stick to it & don't forget the tea tree spay, it works well.
Mrs S I spray their hair every morning when I brush it, it's good for getting knots out too and smells beautiful. I wash their hair every couple of days with the shampoo and conditioner.
I also use the conditioner for combing out the eggs.
I don't see why you couldn't use any shampoo really, i just use the unscented one cos I found it one day.
I put all the oils in 1 bottle, so it's only 1 spray. Is that what you meant?
Tinks Im thinking the base shampoo/conditioner sounds the way to go because i dont want any other scent or whatever they have in it to disturb the oils that are needed to get rid of the nits you never know what they put it in that may effect it so it doesnt work iykwim
I use the conditioner spray for knots. I use oatmeal conditioner coz DD2 gets eczema & all the lice lotions & potions have flared it up, but if it wasn't for that I'd use any. Then I lift the hair & spray with the tea tree before I put it up, then I give it a quick spray over the top when its up. I also use the lice comb quickly in case there are any in there from school the day before, or from friends after. Its too hard for me to find the time every arvo to comb it out. I always get them into bed, then realise I was gonna comb, so now I just do it when I do their hair in the mornings.
The best way to ensure you're getting rid of them is to comb through her hair with cream conditioner and a nit comb every night for over a week. If it is such a problem at the school, then I would suggest doing this once a week (regardless of the status of her head) as it will break the gestational period of the eggs, as well as getting rid of any live lice that are running around. My SIL had this problem at her DD's school, and she now does this once a week for both of them and they have been lice-free all year .
The lice treatments are all well and good, but they don't kill the eggs, you really need to be combing to fully break the cycle. I know it is the biggest PITA, but it's the only way to do it
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.
Oh, man, I may have to resort to sour cream!! DS has long hair and a week of treating and combing hasn't finished them off...there was a big sucker tonight, so he got the shower cap treatment! His hair is oily as all get out cos it's smothered in olive oil and essential oils. Makes it easier to slide eggs out, though, and to see through to his scalp, without the friction of his normally fluffy hair.
I found olive oil with lavender and tea tree work really well for getting the little suckers. It basically stop them from breathing. First treatment for DD1 had them jumping off her head trying to get away.
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