Found that DS had lice last weekend (lots of them...) Did the whole wet combing thing, and got lots out - went on until I could go through his whole head and not find any.
Also combed mine, DD's and DH's hair as well (DH also has them).
Since then I have wet combed DS's hair really really well every evening, with a nitty gritty comb, and every evening there have been more lice - and not just little ones. This evening (day 6 of nightly combing) there were I guess 15 lice, and of those 2 were really great-grandfather sized ones: proper monsters.
So far it feels like the combing is creating the head lice - i.e. the more we do it, the worse the problem gets (no fewer lice, and getting larger).
Any advice? There were nits at the beginning, but I've not seen any of them for a while now.
Is it really possible that he's getting reinfected at school every day? Or am I doing something wrong? I've not been using conditioner every time because he, DD and the baby all share the same bath, and the other two have eczema, and I don't like them getting stuff all over them every day. For the same reason I don't want to use any of the medicated/chemical stuff, and I'm also fairly suspicious of neem (says not to use if you're pregnant/BF, which I am)
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every day there are more head lice - any ideas?
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forgottoremember · 12/10/2012 20:01
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