parents and headlice

[Rainbow_Mumma]

so dont bother with the electric comb?

also tinks ive looked everywhere for the rose stuff and cant find it none of the chemists or shops in ballarat have it any ideas?

[totalfrog]

We went through this repeatedly last year when DD1 was at kinder (all thanks to one mother who refused to treat their child!). I found that smothering her dry hair with conditioner and covering it with a shower cap for a few hours killed the little monsters off nicely. It made combing her hair really easy too. We did this every night for a week and then one more time a week later and they would all be gone.

[deletedit]

Its nothing to do with the size of the school.

My eldest was at a school with 18 students with a perpetual lice problem, from only two or three of the kids. I'm not really into dousing kids with chemicals several times a week, so I had her hair cut shorter so it was easier to comb.

Then, since we were on rainwater and I was conserving anyway, I would shower with her every second day, and comb through her hair with a big blob of conditioner and a lice comb. I'd get maybe 2 or 3 monstrous adult lice each time but no baby ones. I'd do my own hair on the off days.

She hasn't had lice once at the new school, which has around 250 students. But considering the insane cost of the uniforms and how high house prices and rents are here, unsurprisingly the parents and kids are not so 'feral' as at the old school.

[Nettie]

so dont bother with the electric comb?

I would.. Ours cost around $60 from a Chemist and as long as you use it everyday - it seems to work for us! And what's better is DS likes having it done (very different from the wash-in stuff!)

[mrsmac]

I feel your pain ladies, when we lived in Darwin DD1 had waist length hair and had nits heaps which drove me insane!!
We have 2 families at our school now who have recurrent nit problems and it got to the stage where as soon as we saw the nits in their hair we'd call mum to come and get them because it wasn't fair on the other families whose kids were constantly getting reinfected.
Sadly it takes just one parent who doesn't bother treating properly to spread it and keep it going.

[STARRYSKY]

have you asked at the pharmacies if they can special order it in for you? if one of their suppliers has it they should be able to do that.

[Rainbow_Mumma]

Yeah I asked and they can't she looked it up and it's not in any of there stores usual products


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[Yael]

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.

[Smoke Jaguar]

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.

[Tinks]

I've heard mayonnaise works well too.

[Astrid]

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.

[Rouge]

The best way to get rid of lice is a metal comb and conditioner. Also blow dry the hair and comb instead of brush until you are sure that you are louse free.

The one time DD had it we conditioned and combed 3 times, then the next day, then in 2 days, then in 3 days then in a week. It takes one egg to repopulate which is why it's important to keep doing it, and if you find there is an outbreak after the week then start the process again (as annoying as it is you will get them all eventually!). We always make sure DD's hair is back and sprayed with hairspray to prevent lice. But unfortunately because parents are told the lice treatment is the way to get rid of them some parents aren't aware of how to actually treat lice and it continues around school for a while until they are properly informed. A lot of people think that if you kill the adults you get rid of them, and this is why it comes back because you will not get rid of them until you have every single egg out of their hair.

[Smoke Jaguar]

These are all getting stored into my memory bank as I rule out ineffective treatments! Meanwhile, the lady who told me about DS scratching his head last week apologised for leaving me in the lurch (she said she had to rush after another child, I can't remember, I just remember her telling me then leaving me stunned) after informing me or the itching and didn't realise that we'd never had it before and that I could have done with a conversation IRL about it, as well as my subsequent BB search! Not to worry, I knew BB would help!