I vacuumed my hair trying to get rid of lice

... just applied the 8h Hedrin.

When I was doing the pre-application combing, I showed my dh the comb (and must have looked a bit manic with the whites of my eyes showing all round) see! See!

Dh - they just look like little specs of skin. Have you seen a recognisable louse in your own hair yet?

Me - ah but a mumsnetter was just saying she's seen bits of skin that are actually lice under the microscope. Just now, honestly, it's a current thread. Baby nymph lice, honestly

Dh looked concerned. About me, not the lice. I'm losing my mind.

But I've got the hedrin turban on so it's all good

OK I'm inspired to put on the hedrin 8h stuff tonight.

Dd has been full-marksed and combed with the Nitty Gritty 2 days ago, I can't see a single speck in her hair and it looks gorgeous and clean and swishy.

@Okayornot has terrified me that what I think is dandruff in my own hair is actually microscopic lice and I've been reinfecting my poor dd aaargh.

Dh thinks I'm paranoid in the style of Lady Macbeth as outlined above.

But he'll be sleeping next to a Hedrin-turbaned wife tonight. Wish me luck

I don't think any of the OTC treatments work if you only apply them for the short period of time on the instructions. Ive found if you leave them on overnight they sometimes do the job (or at least get you 90% of the way there).
We had a nightmare when our DDs all with very thick long hair (ie over an hour to comb each properly) kept passing it around. One of them had a child's microscope and it was incredible how often little bits of skin or dirt, viewed under the microscope, turned out to be tiny lice (and then they would attack each other on the slide!). But it at least meant we knew when the infestation was truly over, which took a lot longer and a lot more combing than we had hoped.

I had a really bad case of them years ago. I didn't know any kids at all, so where they came from was a mystery.

I dyed my hair, and that seemed to do the job.

Saying that, I used to love spending hours combing them out and squishing them.

Yep me! I'm still traumatised from the mice infestation we had in our loft and kitchen last autumn, took months to clear, now endless headlice! I'm cursed with pestilence.

Not helpful but it anyone else scratching their head now! We had them last summer and I’m traumatised from it!

Turkish lemon cologne. You can buy Duru in a spray bottle or buy it in a litre size or more and secant into a spray bottle.

Works and makes your hair smell lively and the smell deters them from coming back.

Awwww @SerenityNowInsanityLater, that’s adoreable! I wish my cats would let me hoover them 😂

Tea tree oil neat has always worked here. 15 minutes on and then comb comb comb with conditioner every day for a week. You need to wash the oil out with fairy liquid before water or it never comes out!

I actually miss nits. I used to love combing them out. I'm a bit strange like that.

Ps the "me too" was the dandruff/lice issue!

Me too. I'm going to join this thread for the solidarity because I'm losing sleep over it.

We definitely, I mean I think definitely, eradicated dd's headlice about two months ago and then she caught a fresh load last week. She hates being combed

I didn't catch it the first time but I'm so itchy now, I'm convinced I've got them.

But last time she had them none of us caught them... I still scratched my head raw just thinking about them, making me think I had them.

Like Lady Macbeth scrubbing her hands till they bled because she thought she saw blood on them! Aaargh

I'm with you it feels so nice..my dad used to to it to me as a child and now I do it to the kids too lol

As I said earlier, you won’t kill any of the LIVE eggs as they're less than 1mm from your scalp which is too close to get a hair straightener! Yes you'll kill the actual lice but not the live eggs! So in 10 days - 2 weeks they'll hatch. All you're doing is cementing the dead eggs to your hair

Hedrin once (but use it twice maybe 7-10 days apart). Nit comb. Check free circa a week after second application. Treat everyone in the house.

it is weird. however, if it feels good ... just be aware that nits (the eggs) are sticky and not so easily removed. get a nit comb on the job!!

I have thick wavy hair, so I sympathise. I remember one time resorting to bleaching my hair blond to get rid of them. However last time 2 doses of Hedrin worked.

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Near where we live is a super expensive swanky clinic salon type place that vacuums out nits for you.

Professional lice treatment companies like Hair Force hairforceclinics.com/ do exactly that. Vacuum the hair. Check out their videos. They have special attachments as I recall. I've taken my kids there when they were young. They also go through the hair with a Nitty Gritty comb after vacuuming. I suggest you "re-vacuum" in a week and keep using the nitty gritty comb if you can. It's hard with curly hair but with some Moroccan Oil (or similar) it may become easier.

There’s a place in Wandsworth that will charge you £120 for hoovering your hair to get rid of lice (not just for fun). Results in our house have been achieved using NitWits spray & the white lice comb from Superdrug on DD (most effective one I’ve come across to date), otherwise smothering the wee shites in hair dye. I also treat DD routinely every 4-6 weeks after one of her nursery teachers mentioned that the staff anecdotally keep the lice at bay using this method.

I can understand why you wanted to do it, but not sure it will help! Good luck shifting them.

I don’t have lice but I think I’ll hoover my head just for the novelty 😂

@CammyChameleon can we add thread worms to this 🙏🏼 DD had these recently and it was 🤮