HELP!!! DD was sent home with......

[Lisa L from MI]

LICE!!!! I am devastated!!! Never dealt with this before. This is Morgan (age 9). Madison (7) was checked and was fine. I am pretty upset!! Especially when I actually saw one when the nurse showed me!!!!!!

I bought the Rid stuff.....just got done doing the foam shampoo junk...and let it sit for longer than they said. I just did the step 2 part of the gel and the small comb thing.....quite a few came out!!!...I know....yuck!!!!!

All the house beddings is off and being washed in hot water as I type. I packed away all their stuffed animals (4 big garbage bags full!!!!). I sprayed the matresses (and ours too) will do the couches and carpet later tonight!! This is CRAZY!!!!

DD's share a room too...which seems strange she doesn't have it (Madison).

I am just sooooo itchy too...but so was my mom and friend when I told them over the phone!!

Anyway...the nurse mentioned mayo to put in her hair...any experience??? They said as long as all the "nits" are gone she can stay in school tomorrow ( I will have to drive her).....

Anybody have any experience with head lice!!! ANY suggestions would be great!! THANKS!!!

Lisa

 

[grinningghost]

Ugh! I feel your pain. DD got lice when she was still in preschool. It is really awful, isn't it? We used Nix, it worked great - thankfully. Washing all the bedding and bagging up the toys and everything was a huge job - but I was so disgusted by the whole thing, that I cleaned like a freak! Take some comfort in knowing that it's not YOU. Anyone can get lice - in fact, most of the kids in DD's preschool had them - where they started, nobody knows, but it was no fun.

Keep up with the RID as directed and wash all your towels, bedding, stuffed toys that can be washed. Bag up all the other dolls and toys for a couple weeks. You should be OK in a few days.

Here's hoping it gets better soon.

 

[Serena]

You are doing good. Make sure and check every single day, all of you.

I don't recommend this, but one time I put vaseline in my dd's hair. I left it in for all night. It did work, but I had to wash her hair a million times the next day. It was awful to get out.

Don't be devestated. It happens.

 

[Tess]

Rinse her hair with white vinegar after shampooing. After rinsing in the vinegar, use the nit com--dipping the comb after each pass through the hair into small plastic cups of vinegar. (Continue doing this until after the 2nd treatment of Rid.) You will be SHOCKED at the number of eggs you take out! Uck! Makes me itchy just reading about it!.

 

[TeresaNJ]

I went through this years ago with my three children, and it was not pretty!! My daughter's hair was down to her waist and there was no way I was cutting it. All three of my kids had it within days of each other. One thing you have to watch for is the eggs you don't get, they can hatch in about two weeks, I think, so you have to repeat the treatment within the recommended time frame. I feel for you. I have no idea how my kids got them, as it was summer, so no school. The pediatrician said you could pick them up anywhere, even in the supermarket. I too cleaned like a freak. Just the thoughts of them being on me made my skin crawl. I think I Lysol'd everything imaginable. Good luck.

 

[Towncrier]

We went through this with DD last October. I feel your pain. A product that we found that really helped was a flourescent pink spray that sticks to the nits and makes them really easy to see. You wash and dry the hair, then spray in this stuff that looks like the hair dye that they sell at Halloween. After it dries, you brush the dye out and the nits show up really well.

DW spent two hours a night for over a week combing DD's hair and picking nits. We only did the flourescent spray stuff once. Eventually we got rid of the little critters. And you will too. Just keep at it.

 

[ltldeb]

Spray the stuff in the car. Actually anywhere in the house where your DD has sat. I went berserk when we were hit 3 years ago.

 

[goofy4tink]

First we find a tick on the dog...now the attack of the head-lice!!! I'll never stop feeling itchy and crawly all over! My now 26 y/o dd seemed to get them every year! Her grandmother, my ex's mother the hairdresser, told the poor kid, age 7, that only children with dirty hair got lice!!! My dd was devastated. Seems that clean hair really attracts the little 'buggers'. Sounds like you're doing all you can do tho. Hang in there, this too shall pass.

 

[mhopset]

LOL---- you sound like me last year when the kids next door were playing with Seth and they had RINGWORM!!!!!!! OH MY GOD DID I FREAK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mskanga]

That happened to us a couple of years ago , dd was traumatized by that and she won't share hats or combs with anyone, that's a good thing. I also used nixx and it worked very well.

 

[dancergirl]

Ugh, now my head itches!! hehe

When I was little one of my friends got them, and some how I didnt. We used eachothers brush all the time and sometimes the same hair tie, Im not sure how she manged to keep it to herself, but im sure glad she did!
Good Luck!

 

[Fire14]

I did the vaseline/ shower cap thing. I got vaseline out by usng liquid dish soap. I also had done the rid like twice. and to think we only ever found one on me.

 

[disneychrista]

UGH!! You have to be VERY diligent in "nit picking" the comb by itself isn't going to do it. The best place to do this, if possible is in the sun light.

As others have mentioned white vinegar, is great in aiding the removal of nits, it helps remove the "glue" that attaches the lice the hair.

Also, like the vasiline, olive oil is great. Put in on the hair, every 3 days, over night or if not possible leave on for as long as possible. To wash out use a dish washing liquid.

 

[RNMOM]

We get lots of calls from frantic parents about this. The trick with the vinegar is use white vinegar and let it stay in the hair, with a towel wrapped around the head for 30-60 min. It is supposed to loosen the "glue" that sticks the nits to the hair and make removal easier.

You can use vaseline, mayo or olive oil but vaseline would be the hardest to get out. The idea with this is to leave on the hair for many hours, like over night. It is supposed to "suffocate" the adult lice. Can't hurt and may help. The mayo or olive oil would also give a deep condition to the hair.

If you can't get rid of them talk to your doctor. Be careful not to exceede the recommended dose of Rid or any other shampoos that contain pesticides as they do get absorbed into the skin and too much can be dangerous.

We have a product here called "Not Nice to Lice" that the health department is suggesting. It is usually in our bigger pharmacy chains. Good luck.

 

[Lisa L from MI]

Thanks everyone for your replies......I did everything last night...what a pain!!! It was pretty gross with the hair RID stuff....but....took her in this am and she was all clear!!!

I know I have to repeat the hair wash in 10 days...but I was so happy it was ok today!!! Morgans poor scalp probably killed her!!! I washed it with the stuff plus the mayo from 3:30 until almost 8pm last night!!!!

Guess I will finish up all the laundry today.....

Thanks again....\

Lisa

 

[Lisa L from MI]

Thanks everyone for your replies......I did everything last night...what a pain!!! It was pretty gross with the hair RID stuff....but....took her in this am and she was all clear!!!

I know I have to repeat the hair wash in 10 days...but I was so happy it was ok today!!! Morgans poor scalp probably killed her!!! I washed it with the stuff plus the mayo from 3:30 until almost 8pm last night!!!!

Guess I will finish up all the laundry today.....

Thanks again....\

Lisa

 

[Towncrier]

You should do a cursory check daily to see if any more live lice appear. In our case, the over-the-counter lice shampoo didn't seem to have much effect on the adult bugs. We ended up getting the high powered prescription lice shampoo from the doctor (which seemed to do the trick).

 

[nancy679]

Just be diligent and check her hair every day for a few weeks. We had it in our house last year (3 of us had it) and it took at least three weeks to finally get rid of them all. The over the counter stuff didnt really help, neither did prescription stuff. It was just the daily combing and picking out the nits by hand that did it. I did use a lice egg remover enzyme to help loosen the glue.

Just be very careful about using all those chemicals on her hair, that stuff is toxic if you over use it.

I tried the mayo--didnt work. Again it was just being diligent about picking the nits out. I was in tears over it.

ALso the nurse told us that the lice only live about 6 hours off a human host ,so dont go nuts cleaning your house, and spend more time concentating on checking her head.

GOOD LUCK!!!

 

[December99]

Well....be lucky you didn't find LIVE BUGS IN HER HAIR!!!! DD had it after being at her grandparents and dad's and two weeks later, guess what started happening!!! And when the first live bug fell out on it's own, I was like, okay - it's a bug she just got but when, after washing I found 4 MORE!!!! - that was it!

If your dd has long hair, my suggestion is also to be washing her hair every 2-3 days with the lice shampoo. I have found too that the WalMart brand works MUCH better than the name brand! And I tried both. Also, as a precaution - all of the family members should be washing their hair too. Too a wash on the other family members like tonight and repeat again in 10 days. It takes approximately 2 weeks for them to break out of the eggs and produce.

 

[FOJMO]

Our DD (now 17) actually got lice in her hair when she was 15, while working at a summer daycare center. She had long hair and it hung down and made contact with one of the little girls, who she found out later had lice.

What a mess. Plus, the embarrassment. Luckily over the summer, she wasn't in school, so she didn't miss any school.

Unfortunately, after we thought we got rid of them, she got them again a few weeks later!!! Went through the whole cleaning process again.

Finally, they were gone and that was the end of it!!!