HELP ME!!! I think I found nits on DD.

[daemom]

One more--don't forget to treat your car too!

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

The last time we had a round of lice in the boys hair I didn't use the RID product. I coated their heads with olive oil and put a shower cap on them for about 2 hours. They rinsed it out and used vinegar as an additional rinse. The olive oil will suffocate the nits and lice but it takes a couple of hours. They lice don't like the smell of the vinegar so using it as a rinse helps keep them from coming back into the hair if they have gotten into your furniture or bedding. Has the added effect of making you hair nice and shiny too!

 

[ozarkmom]

Tea tree oil is good. I also coated my dd hair with mayo and put and wrapped her hair in plastic. Also blow dry her hair. These were all tips given to me by a school nurse with daughters of her own.

 

[porterbl1]

As referenced above, blowdrying hair really helps. Usually kids who blow-dry daily do not get lice. You mentioned curly hair, you probably do not blowdry regularly. I would blowdry her head for five minutes or so daily, before her bath. Good luck, it is not fun.
-Becca

 

[minnie56]

The products for Lice are pretty deadly, try Tea Tree Oil first. I know many people that have had excellent success with this!!

Good Luck!

 

[DVC Jen]

My youngest DD had them a few years ago. She had them BAD before we realized it. She was old enough to take care of her own showering/hairwashing and styling so why would I be checking her head all the time ya know?

We washed her hair with RID several times and I still found very healthy quick moving lice still roaming around on her head. They were NOT responding to the RID at all.

I had to call the doctor and insist (they didn't want to prescribe it) they give me a prescription for something stronger. I had to threatend to bring her into the office and show them the live bugs..moving in a pool of the RID before they called it in. BUT it worked like a charm.

I still had to remove the nits one by one. It was a major pain, but had to be done. Make sure you take all stuffed animals/dolls and put them in a large garbage bag and put them in the garage or other place for up to 3 weeks. That will kill any bugs that are hanging out there.

Remember.. lice like CLEAN hair.. not dirty hair. Good luck!

 

[Am_I_There_Yet]

DSD7 came to our house for Christmas vacation with a headfull of lice. I was livid, because she'd been telling her mom that her head itched for days and while lice are quick and hard to see, they were so bad, that I saw several just by parting her hair with my fingers.

So, I spent Christmas vacation nit-picking. I had them all, and it was hard work. I explained to her that she needed to take her own pillow to sleepovers and to never, ever share brushes, hats, scarves, hair clips, etc.

Fast forward three months - two weeks before our trip to WDW, this past March - and DSD's mom calls to tell us that she has them again. It was her weekend to be with us, but DH told her mom that she needed to keep her and to get rid of them for good, or it could ruin our upcoming trip.

He figured that maybe if she had to sit there for backbreaking hours, like I had, that she'd be a little more careful about where DSD puts her head and what she puts on it.

Anyway, we found old nits two weeks later before our trip, and I had to worry the whole time we were there.

P.S. Come to find out, right before Christmas, her school had all of the kids take pictures in a santa hat. The SAME santa hat. I was furious! Schools should know better than that! We're pretty sure this is how she got them the first time, since the ten day timing from louse to nit made sense.

 

[ntburns22]

Tea tree oil is good. I also coated my dd hair with mayo and put and wrapped her hair in plastic. Also blow dry her hair. These were all tips given to me by a school nurse with daughters of her own.

Well everything looked clear when I put her to bed this evening. I started use the hair dryer on her hair yesterday to straighten her hair out. It did make it alot easier to spot them. I did treat her hair. But I still found some nits last night and a couple this morning. Thanks again for all the tips and advice on this. Atleast my house is sparkling clean to look at the brighter side.