Hi,
I have 3 children (DD 3 and 7, DS 5). At the end of the last term they picked up nits and we just can't get rid of them.
We tried using conditioner and the gritty nitty comb but DD7 is a major problem because she has very long, thick and often matted hair. She's a tomboy and has never liked having her hair brushed and it seems to cause her physical pain to brush, worse if we find a knot (which is often because she won't brush daily, or even weekly). Nit combing her hair takes hours of her just crying. Even brushing it before putting in conditioner doesn't work because it manages to knot itself up and then the knots cause her lots of pain when trying to brush and comb through later. I did manage to get her into a bit of daddy/daughter grooming time where I'd sit her down and brush through her hair and she did start to enjoy this so I might try that to get her more used to having her hair done, but dry smooth hair is far easier to brush than using a tiny comb on conditioned hair.
I bought some Full Marks 5 minute solution while my wife and children went away for a week and that worked great for me so I did the whole house when they came back and dozens of them dropped out of my DD7's hair without doing anything but unfortunately they are back again and we've now found out that they don't kill the eggs.
I really don't like to torment her with painful combing every few nights but want to get this sorted. Has anyone got any ideas.
My current thoughts on an approach is to use the Full Marks to kill the ones that are alive now and then see if we can get a combing regime in place but I just don't know how to tackle my eldest.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Nits in long thick hair
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GarthNader · 22/08/2016 09:18
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