Head lice - what to use and can school sort it at all?

Don’t use a treatment, they mostly don’t work and it sounds like your DD could react. I know a girl who developed alopecia from using it. Just comb with nitty gritty and conditioner every 2 days and you will get rid of them, keep going every few days even when you think they are gone. Admittedly I have boys and combing is quick, I know it takes longer for girls

School can't do much, but our school do send out texts and emails telling parents to check whenever nits are going around.

Make sure her hair is up every day, french plaits if you can. We also use the 3 in 1 kids Vosene, which has tea tree in it and is a lice repellent.

Hedrin Once. It works and you don’t have to faff around combing for hours. When I lived overseas my mum used to bring me two bottles a year when she came to visit. It was the one thing I’d always be reminding her about the week before 🤣

I've never used a treatment. Just get a nitty gritty comb and comb hair every other day until you see nothing. Then check every Sunday for eggs etc.

Primary school and girls was a nightmare for nits. One of my DD’s friend had them all the time. I suspect they weren’t treating them properly as when they moved house and she left my DD never had nits again

I remember sitting next to my DD and spotting a louse, it was bloody huge! I totally freaked out and DH managed to grab the crawling bugger! Squished it between his nails!

I then felt itchy and guess what I had them too!

First things first - Hedrin Once!

Leave that on then wash out.

Then use a nitty gritty comb, rinse the comb each time.

Then head torch and look through all the hair starting from one side and pull out any missed eggs and squash them between your nails.

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Please explain how our immune systems kill nits.

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This one. It’s fab. And we are a family with tonnes of very thick hair.

I didn’t pay anything like that I’m sure!

They used to say headlice only like clean hair , buy it doesn't seem to make a difference. They do seem to prefer some people, like how some people are more prone to insect bits.

My dd had them and had very long hair. I found cheap tea tree conditioner, combed through dry hair worked better than expensive treatments. Then dry the hair and snip off any strands with stubborn eggs still attached.

It's just one of those things OP, it's no one's fault, we've had it twice here. Get a bucket of cheap conditioner and a nitty gritty comb. Cover hair in conditioner on wet hair, and comb every other day for 10 days. Wipe the comb every time to remove the nits/eggs. Wash bedding on hot wash. Tea tree shampoo and always tie back for school.

NitNot oil and combing through very well 2-3 times with a few days between is the best for us - the Hedrin style treatments are just unpleasant for everyone (smell, feel etc)

Then I use a conditioning spray with some tea-tree in for the next few weeks to try and stop him getting re-infected while the other kids are sorted out (hopefully)

For prevention we use a spray every day. Two drops of tea tree oil in a little spray bottle of water. Has worked for the last 7 years - nit free thankfully.

Ask the phamacist which shampoo to use. They alternate the treatment to prevent the nits become immune from any particular treatment, at least thats what we were told years ago. Adults can get them. When we were kids, schools were visited by a nurse who would treat whole schools if there was an infection, but that was dropped before school milk. Nitty Nora the bug explorer, they were known as.

DD had nits in 2019. Really hard to get rid of. What worked best for us was Nitwit solution and twice weekly combing with nitty gritty comb and LOTS of (cheaper) conditioner in hair. It coincided with her getting her hair cut in a longer bob so she had to wear hair down for school, before that her hair was tied back. After, we got rid of them, I did used to comb through her bob with leave in conditioner which had tea tree oil in which is meant to deter them?? Her hair is now longer and tied back for school. Plaits also help as they find it harder to catch on.

Just conditioner and nit comb.
Do the whole family though.

Hedrin,follow the instructions,do the whole family at the same time.

I honestly think the reason it's so rife is because people use conditioner and a nit comb and don't spend anywhere near long enough doing it,it takes ages doing it properly and so it spreads.

Schools used to send kids home and you weren't allowed back until you had the all clear. Now parents can't be arsed, along with everything else so it becomes 'acceptable.'

of course adults get infested, what part of the immune system do you imagine could work against head lice!?

Adults tend to have shorter hair and keep their heads further away from other people's so there is less transfer to and from adults, but they obviously can very much get them

We use full marks solution done in 5 minutes...,it also removes dandruff

Catching headlice doesn't have anything to do with your immune system. They're tiny insects that set up shop on your scalp and hair if they get the chance, not internal parasites.

The reason adults mostly don't get infested with headlice, is simply because we're more fussy about personal space with non-relatives, and so we don't engage in head-to-head contact with them. Headlice go round school classes, because children do have head-to-head contact with their friends. Naturally, children also have head-to-head contact with their parents, so parents of young children catch headlice off their own children all the time.

Best thing to do as others have said is conditioner and comb hair, l used to just stick kids in front of tv and do it, if she's scratching she's defintinatly got more than the two you can see. The school can send out letters but some people never treat their kids so you might be in for long haul. Once you cleared your DD just make sure you check at least once a week.
Don't forget to change bed and wash sheets abs towels.

School can do nothing except send out general letter to say please check your child. We’re not really supposed to inform individual families and cannot enforce any kind of treatment.
It is quite possible that your Dd may get them more than once.
It would only be reported as part of a much wider picture of possible neglect. Not treating for nits on its own is not

Which one moglet? I'm yet to find one that was worth the £25.

My daughter caught them (aged 18) in a nursery, doing work experience. We used special shampoo; didn’t help. Nothing helped, except regular combing.

There’s a reason these fuckers are everywhere. We’re delicious. Combing every 3 days is the only thing that actually works.

Schools can’t do anything. You have to do it yourself.

My kids went through a couple of years of constantly picking them up at school. It was gross. Use the bit shampoos but I suggest not using the spray as it turns your whole room into an ice rink. What was a game changer for us was the electrifying comb I got off Amazon. It really does work! You just comb it through the hair and it kills lice and combs out the nits. It beeps when it comes across them too. Used in combination with the shampoo and a normal bit comb it means you don’t miss any, even in very thick hair. It’s great for catching them early in future too- just comb it through once a week or so - we definitely caught one before it had a chance to lay anything!