I know horrid thing to talk about but my daughter has them. Any advise welcome what i use to get rid of them, tried conditioner and brush also derbac m but the little buggers wont all go. Dont say mayo and vinegar as she said no way she would stink. No chance of my little lad getting them he is now sporting a blade 2.
Help its making me itch!
F
Basically i was told that the best thing is to literally go through the hair,and remove the eggs one bye one,yes its a nightmare,but it does work!!
The half an hour ones arent reccommended as they cant kill them off thoroughly!
Try tea tree conditioner it works really you can even get the electronic combs now,but they coast about £20 a go!!
Once you get rid of them you can get a nit repellent which looks quite good.
Good luck with getting rid of the little feckers,since my daughter started school last year she's had it more times than i like to remember so i can sympathise,now i just need to stop scratching!!
Headlice are like fish, they breathe through gills - if you make them close them long enough they suffocate. You need to cover your daughters hair with conditioner (a tea tree one is brilliant) and leave it on for a few hours - then comb through with a proper lice comb and wash away.
If you repeat this every few days initially you should easily get rid of them, and comb through with the lice comb.
There is a great natural produc ton the market but the name escapes me ... as soon as I find the link I'll send it to you
As has been said...T tree oil is by far the best. It has natural enzymes the little buggers cant stand, and it does not smell that bad, more eucalyptus like. You can actually buy it in liquid form from hebalists, and they have it watered down for such purposes. many think they are attracted to bad hair, but they actually like clean heads! A friend used to mix it in her daughters shampoo to hide the fact she was using it, and kept doing it for ages until she cleared it up....
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Just "normally" conditioning the hair and using a nit comb will work, but you need to do it at least twice a day for a fortnight.
The comb will remove the live "big" nits and the conditioner helps to make the hair slippy so they cant hold on...
The little nits grow up and are then removed when they are big enough to catch in the comb..
Any eggs left will hatch, grow up and be removed...
It works over 14 days because none of the big nits has time to mature anough to lay fresh eggs that would then hatch and again the conditioner helps because it makes it harder for the eggs to be attatched with something akin to souper glue, lol.
The only nit stuff I would recomend is the clear, not the white creamy, one that stinks to high heaven and is left on over night... but a second application a few days is required as it doesnt always kill the eggs as nitts... the cream one is just useless as the little buggers have become imune to it, and the clear liquid is not as effective as it used to be with the eggs.
Thats one reason that it was withdrawn from pescriptions... that and the fact it was costing so much to the NHS.
Calista mentions a natural lotion, I also cant remember the name but its made by Welida just arround the back from my house in ilkeston... and I can attest to it working as when my estranged daughter used to visit from her mothers it was up to me to do her hair... when you empty a bath and there are dead ones stuck to the sides... you know it works, lol.
thanks for the advise
have tried picking them out one by one but after a hour you both get numb bums and neck ache.
will get some tea tree conditioner tomorrow and Jon i know the white one stinks (the whole house does)
if i had them would be bleached to death by now as been hairdressers lol
F x
aaa nits
i use calistas way of getting rid of the little horrors
or a quicker way which my son just loves get the old hair clippers out and give him a skin head :shock:
they are rife at the moment in the schools you feel you just get rid of one lot and they come home scratching again
I swear by the electronic comb. It may be initially expensive but it can be used over and over again.
Good luck xxxx
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I have used this lotion on my kids and myself with very good effect. People have mentioned Tea Tree oil, but this also has Neem oil which is the main working ingredient.
Good luck! It's a yukky business, but one that comes to us all at sometime.
Rachel