Ot!! Help!!!head Lice!!!!

[Stitch#1]

We had a small problem years back before my son even started school he caught it from his cousin. I called the doctor and they had me put mayo on my sons head and then cover it with saran wrap or tie a plastic bag on his head like a do rag. The nurse said the mayo sufficates them and they & the eggs die.
It worked like a charm and my sons hair was extremely soft becuse the mayo worked like a conditioner.
Oh and use full fat mayo not the light or fat free stuff.

 

[dck12ga]

Our DD7 ,we believe , got lice while we were at WDW! (as I itch my head!!) So we went thru the hoops and washed everything and bagged all the pillows, Nix ed her hair and sprayed the couch and floor with that nasty spray! My husband went thru her hair every day with the nit comb. What I do not understand is if the adult lice needs warmth and blood to survive and they will die 24 hours away from the food and warmth, why did I bag her stuffed toys and pillows for 2 weeks?? I can't imagine the nits can survive with out the warmth... every website said something different as to what to do. No one agreed on anything!! Why is this?? I was sooo frustrated in the whole thing!! The only thing that really worked was my husband going thru her hair every day!! Good luck with the lice, You are not a dirty person!! Just remember that!! Do what ever works for you!

 

[MKCP5]

Well 2 days later the sun has actually come out again and we are still working on it all. Thank you all so much for so many great ideas. I am a washing fool and scratch myself constantly--like you all are now I have had my husband check me several times and I finally treated myself because I just can't stand the thought of it! I called a friend had a very bad bout of this with her kids and she used coconut oil all over the scalp every night along with suave coconut conditioner. Wrapped up the head and left it on all night. The smell and well as the oil is supposed to suffocate them. We did another 2 1/2 hours comb through last night and I found far far less than day one. Here's looking forward to finding none soon. I like feeling like I am doing something rather than sitting around waiting another week for someone else to hatch. The coconut smells fabulous too and is a great conditioner. I will call the school nurse this am after another comb through and see if she will check her and allow her back in to schoool. She is devastated at the possibility of missing school or her gymnastics team. I keep trying to make light of it though and she has really been such a good girl about it all.

 

[we3disneygo]

there is a comb you can get at wal mart called the robbi comb it's 25.00 but well worth it.....it beeps when is comes across one of the little buggers.....you wipe it out and comb again....it helped once we got all the nits out and did it every day after school.............. good luck...

 

[SueM in MN]

The teachers at school swear by the Paul Mitchell shampoo and the Aveda shampoo that have tea....??? I can find out the exact stuff. The name is tea something and they say the nits hate it. They shampoo every day to avoid getting it from students who come home with it. Just thought for when you get rid of them. Thought you'd like to know. GOOD LUCK!

What you are thinking of is TEA TREE OIL.

What I do not understand is if the adult lice needs warmth and blood to survive and they will die 24 hours away from the food and warmth, why did I bag her stuffed toys and pillows for 2 weeks?? I can't imagine the nits can survive with out the warmth... every website said something different as to what to do.

I can tell you from when I was a school nurse that I have had adult head lice in test tubes. Without being "fed", they dehydrate and die within 24-48 hours. The nits could stay alive in a test tube - they would not hatch, but if I put them under a warm light from a microscope light, you could see them become active with the warmth. The newly hatched nits have to feed within a few hours or they will die. The chances of nits off the body getting warm enough to develop and hatch and finding a human to feed on are very low. The 2 weeks in a bag is definately overkill, but better safe...
The weebsite I posted before has verry good, factual information, plus lots of pictures.

 

[DisneyFreq]

I use the Rid too but only b/c school policy says I have to use a bottle then show the reciept/empty bottle before she can come back. The truth is...my daughter has brought lice home multiple times (sadly, several times from her cousins whose mother refused to believe her children had it and therefore wasn't treating it) and she's even given it to me b/c we tend to share brushes. The ONLY thing that has every worked for us is repeated combings. You have to do it AT MINIMUM once a day but for sanity's sake we usually do it every couple of hours. The trick is to do it for about a 8-10 days...you have to get the live ones out before they mature enough to lay their own eggs or else you just continue the cycle. You also have to wash all your sheets, soak hair accessories/brushes in bleach water (or run thru the dishwasher), treat carpets with lice spray and bag up stuffed animals in heavy duty trash bags for a week.

Ugh...my head is itching even having this discussion.

As a side note: I've dealt with lice so many times..if I see any of my kids/relatives/nieces/cousins scratch their heads....I run over and dig thru their hair. If I see a stranger digging in...I grab my kids and try to scooch as far a way as possible. I know that I probably make that person feel bad...but I hate dealing with this pest!

 

[Tammy1966]

We had this problem a few years back and I refused to cut my DD's long h air. I tried everything to get those things out. My Father in-law told me to use coal tar. I was like what??
he was in his 90's and said that was what they had used during the depression. Bought Tgel shampoo with caol tar and got rid of those things. Nothing else worked not the RID,vaseline nothing we tried it all. Everyone used this shampoo even the dog. FYI this stuff stinks though but is better than the lice removers
Good Luck

 

[MKCP5]

My daughter has pale blonde/light brown hair and I am finding the occasional whitish nit, but mostly all dark brown ones. Does anyone know why? Are they more develloped in their life cycle or something? I am pretty positive that we do not have any actual bugs still, 6 hours Sat, 2 hours yesterday am and two hours last night, and then another 3 1/2 this am pulling nits. ARRRGGGHHHHH! I am exhausted, have done at least 25 loads of laundry since saturday and feel panicked that I am not getting every one and that one egg will manage to hatch that has fallen off of her head somehow. Everywhere I see fabric or upholstery I won't let her sit, and I am completely paranoid as well. Someone tell me that we will get through this!!!!! She stayed home today and I am hoping to go through her head again tonite and in the am so she can go to school and gymnastics tomorrow!

 

[disneychrista]

The darker nits/eggs are the more mature ones, the white ones are newer/less mature.

 

[MKCP5]

okay, that makes me want to throw up. that means they have been there a while

 

[kerry34]

Okay head is itching now, lol!!! I have dealt with this nightmare with all of my five children and I seriously was ready to commit myself after two weeks of picking, shampooing, combing, bagging, vacuuming, etc etc. We treated my son and then got his head shaved (lucky it was summer), so he was okay. You will get through it, although I know at times it seem like you never will. You just have to comb frequently throughout the next few weeks. That is what I did. Every day for 10 days I combed their hair. My twins were very young at that time and it was really tough with them because they wouldnt keep still at all. What a nightmare!! My thoughts are with you and sending pixie dust your way!! Good luck.

 

[MKCP5]

Well after another 2 1/2 hours of combing this am I brought her in to the nurse and she couldn't find any and gave her the go ahead to come back to school. I will continue washing everything every day and combing through her head for a couple of weeks, but I am very prayerful that we are thorugh the worst of it. Thanks again for all of your helpful hints, encouragement and hugs!!!

 

[markwake]

As a Little League coach for 11 years, I warn my LL parents every season about a common source of lice: sharing helmets and baseball caps. I strongly encourage my LL parents to buy their own helmet, don't use the league's helmets, and DON'T share caps and helmets! I've seen games cancelled and teams forfeit because the whole team is scratching and being treated for lice. Disgusting!

 

[sarahsmom73]

I am a teacher and my hair dresser git in this shampoo called Fairy Tales... It is an herbal shampoo that is supposed to repel lice.... I know it dones't help now but if you can find some it works great! (I use it because I am lice phobic)

 

[arkansasdisneyfan]

My dd10 got them at the end of the school year last year. We had a really hard time getting rid of them because she had dark, long, extremely thick hair. After using Nix about 5 times, dh looked on the internet and ordered LiceRX. It is all natural and the shampoo smells like oranges. The leave in spray smells like insecticide. We finally found something that worked! I highly recommend it. After picking through her hair nightly for weeks, she doesn't want to catch them again. She's even reported a little girl at school after she saw them crawling in her hair....ewwww!!!