I vacuumed my hair trying to get rid of lice

I used lots and lots of conditioner (cheapest you can find). Wet hair, soak hair in conditioner, leave for a minute or two to penetrate, and then use a nit comb, I had a big swab of kitchen roll to collect the conditioner and clean the comb in between strokes. Wash hair with shampoo after. Do that every day for 2 weeks.

Dye your hair. Seriously. Nit stuff didn't do anything for me or my kids, but hair dye kills anything alive up there.

I feel your pain!

We kept getting them when the DCs were small but with eczema and asthma we weren't allowed to use any treatments, just combing.

My hair is curly but fine so pretty easy to comb but the DCs are half Indian and inherited DH's hair. It's lovely but not great for nits!

DD has medium thick, very curly hair and DS's is wavy but VERY thick. Nightmare.

Dd has never had nits. I was all prepared with special comb as well.

I use vosene shampoo and i spray her hair with vosene spray every morning before school.

Shes year 5 now so hoping it stays that way.

Reading all of these is making my scalp itchy. Thank god my son never got nits in school in primary or secondary. As I said before my mum always put a drop of vinegar in our hair when we were kids and must have kept the nits off.
I got them once as an adult when living abroad from a friend who was friends with a family whose kids had severe nits that you could actually see crawling in their head as so bad and not treated. So spent a romantic weekend getting rid of nits and in the heat was severely itchy, was horrific.

I use the nit not oil on DS's thick, curly, long hair. The pesticide ones stung, and were hard to comb through, I prefer the oil because whilst it's hard to wash out of his hair so he looks greasy for a few days, his scalp is lovely after, and it's nicer to spend the hour or two combing oil through his hair than mucking about with hedrin.

Try the Skin so soft oil spray - it washes out really well.

Takes the stick off the eggs.

Wouldn’t use anything else

When I last had lice, none of the treatments worked.

In the end, I straightened by hair repeatedly for a fortnight and that finally did the trick.

Did you use neat tea tree oil? You need to dilute it in a carrier oil or it will damage skin..

We bought an electric comb. It electrocuted the nits.

Plaster thick conditioner on your head before bed and then comb out your hair upside down over a white towel in the morning.

Wash out your hair and then use straighteners to fry the last remaining eggs. Repeat this routine for next few weeks & lightly spray your hair with tea tree oil, they can't stand it.

I think they're called face mites actually, what I'm thinking of. Tiny tiny bugs that eat dead skin - smaller than headlice, but harmless

I was in a panic last night reading this thread but I've woken up calmer (to feed the baby) and now I wonder if maybe the pp who kept seeing lice under the microscope may have been seeing skin mites (which are normal and most adult humans have them).

You need the overnight treatment that smothers them, not the two hour one as they become resistant to that. And a nitty gritty comb every day for weeks. Leave in conditioner.

Going through this now. One dc has super long thick hair which makes combing a nightmare. I was doing it every other day but I guess I now have to do it daily. I am still itching but not finding anything on the comb. Will try vodka and then derbac!

Nitty gritty comb and conditioner. Constantly, daily - that's all that is going to work. Chemical treatments are a fallacy, spend lots of money to think the lice and the eggs are dead, only to find the eggs were not dead after all!

Comb comb, comb.

There's always going to be one parent that doesn't / can't be bothered...

Wankers.

I am both freaked out by that, @Okayornot, and also wish I had a microscope for the inevitable nit epidemic that will hit when the Easter holidays end 😂

I get a mug of just boiled water and dip the comb in it - the heat kills the lice on the comb - oddly satisfying.

I never had any luck with chemical treatments, because it's not so much not killing the lice on the kids that's the issue. It's that they just keep re infecting themselves at school. Hence, ongoing combing with conditioner.

Does hairspray work?

The only thing that really does work is combing round the clock! (I did like the vodka idea though).
You eventually get all the adult lice out (who layed the eggs), then the teenage lice which can't lay eggs yet, to the hatching baby lice so basically working the generations out your head!

Why do they even still exist in this day and age!!??

And now my head is itching like mad!

Never used any treatments, I don't think they work reliably. Only ever wet combed with conditioner to remove nits, it's annoying and time consuming but actually works. Just make sure you get your timings right, I missed one of DD'S seasons and we where almost back to square one.

I used to sit DD in the sunlight and pick out the eggs/lice with a nitty gritty comb, stick them on a piece of sellotape. Super satisfying.

The sun illuminated the eggs on her hair.

My niece is now in her 30’s. She’s mixed race and my sister was having a nightmare trying to get rid of them. The chemist told her to try vodka as they said they were finding that the the lice had become resistant to all the OTC treatments.

Hearing every 7 deserves for a few weeks!

op have you tried mayo and vinegar itl make your head smell like a burger but I swear it works tried on my lot after a tip from a friend, after using all the treatments and still getting them back again. have been lice free (touch wood) for years now !