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Title says it ll really... She has beautiful thick thick shoulder length hair & is extremely phobic about me touching it.... This is going to be an absolute nightmare isn't it

I feel your pain. Actually it's not so bad, and the shampoos these days are pretty effective. You just need to make sure you get a good nit comb and take a 'we're all in this together' approach. I had to do all 5 of us last time. Also buy some tea tree shampoo and conditioner, it really does repel the little blighters, and use it regularly. Good luck.

Conditioner conditioner conditioner - and a decent nit comb. Bought a cheap one and regretted it.

Her hair will be so beautiful from all the conditioning that maybe you can convince her that its all OK?

I love Hedrin.

Comb through with loads of conditioner and a nit comb while you're cuddling watching a nice film. Blow dry and then ghd to fry the rest.

thick hair -avoi hedrin, it's pretty much impossible to get all the hair and it's a bloody nightmare to wash out -comb comb comb!

We grappled with nits for months, dd got them and kindly passed them around the 5 of us. Months of misery - consant conditioning, nitty gritty, hedrin, full marks, tea tree - you name it we tried it. Dd has incredibly thick wavy long hair.

In despair one day I asked the pharmacist for the heaviest duty chemicals he had. One dose and they were gone <phew>

If it ever happens again I shall call in the big guns straight away.

Ahhh thank you for the replies!

Have said that we will wash her hair, puts lots of soft stuff in it & come downstairs to watch a film while we comb... She is saying yes at the moment..!
Kicking myself, because I noticed a slight rash at the base of her neck last week & thought it was a heat rash.

Will see how we go tomorrow morning, but fear we may just go straight for the heavy duty stuff.

I used the comb more to be able to separate and see each section, it didn't actually pull the nits out. I picked/dragged off each egg with my fingers.

Heston once is pretty good, supposed to kill the eggs too.

Watching a film def helped when I've had to do my dd.

Scratch, scratch

I use Hedrin Once (on both occasions my dds have had nits) and it was very effective - with minimal combing.

Good luck!

Oh I'm itching..can't tell if it's real or not

My fabulous Eastern European childminder tried to smuggle some seriously heavy duty nit powder from Moldova for us and it got confiscated by customs! Can't buy it here at all.

We've all got them and they Will. Not. Die. What are the big guns, Verity????

The one that worked for us was Derbac M. You leave it on overnight and wash out in the morning. Hope it does the trick for you

You need a nitty gritty comb.
Shampoos kill the nits but not the eggs
Buy good leave in conditioner and comb in
Sections EVERY day for 2 weeks.
I did this and after 10 days I was still finding stray eggs and baby nits.
Remember they grow and lay 200 eggs in about 4 days so if you miss a few days combing you are back to square 1!
It took 10 WEEKS to get rid of DD nits. Nits are immune to many of the shampoos now!

Wentworth...is that instead of using chemicals? We spent the best part of 2 hours last night, and I thought I had done a good job, but can see more this evening..