To shave my head to get rid of lice?

Wear a hat and a scarf for the school run and I'm pretty sure nobody would notice? Especially if you don't linger.
I would just say, if anyone asks, that you have a friend going through chemo and you did it in solidarity!!

We had this problem. I used hedrin once, vamousse and nit wits on rotation every 10 days. Like you I seemed to be really hyperaware.
My child changed schools. Haven't had them since. I used to be constantly on at the school to send emails out and ask all the parents and they always said 'oh it's not us!' I once treated the entire family and clothes etc one day. Didn't go out. Had a sleepover and the next day the kids were infected again. The mum told me shed 'checked' before. Yeah right.

https://hairforceclinics.com/

Try Nitnot. DD has very thick hair and one treatment of this did the trick. I never found another louse after and I still comb weekly over a year later. I used it on myself too. Combed out one dead louse and never found another. And I also added a load of tea tree oil to our conditioners.

Vamoose was the only thing that worked for me. I had waist length curly hair and it was a pain but after 2 treatments all gone!

You had another thread about this a few weeks ago?

Are you absolutely sure? Because between that thread and this, enough time would have passed for eggs to have hatched and grown big enough to easily comb out.

If you're not finding any nits, you probably don't have them. Itchy scalp can be psychosomatic from thinking you have nits (almost everyone gets itchy when they think about nits). You also sound like you could of had a reaction to the Hedrin (the rashes) which could also cause your scalp to be itchy.

Nitnot is amazing. One treatment and all the fuckers were blitzed.

Don’t do it. It won’t stop the lice from coming back, even if it does make it easier to treat.

As someone who was plagued with lice as a (neglected) child, I think you’d know by now if you definitely have them? I used to itch my head and they’d fall out, or be under my fingernails. Surely you’d see the lice and not just nits in the comb? Can your DH not help you comb?

Are you sure you actually have them? You said it’s been a month since your DS bought them home, if the treatments weren’t working you’d be crawling with them but now. If you keep treating and combing to the point you have then yes, you’re going to get an irritated scalp. The rash on your forehead and scalp are probably an indication of this. It sounds like you’ve become a bit fixated on it.

I would get a treatment for a dry scalp from the pharmacist and see if that relieves your itching. And get your DH to check you for nits? It’s far easier for someone else to check you.

I'm working on something right now and just clicked for a short change of focus so cannot RTFT and apologise if this has been said but there are lice clinics (I think mostly london but have a look) who have a kind of hoover to hoover them out. I think they are called the Hairforce because i thought what a good name.

You could try the hoovering but they might also be able to give you a basically decent shorter cut to fix the issue with easier combing, then you can get it tidied thereafter. I'd try that first.

I also have thick hair. Hedrin didn’t clear it for me, also I was relying on DH combing the back which he wasn’t good at.
in frustration I covered my hair in coconut oil, put a shower cap on for an hour, combed it all out, and they never came back. It was tricky to wash out but was so slippery I don’t think anything could hold on.

You’ll almost certainly find a hair dresser who’ll cut it for you. Either a salon based one or one that comes to you.

If you want to go wild, do it. But do it for tye right reason.

When you’re using treatments, are you using enough? With that much hair you’ll need a lot more than a child does.

Have you googled nit treaters near you? I think there’s somewhere near me that will come and treat your head for nits - like in motherland. Or possibly you go to them. But then you’d know it was done properly. Or could your husband not do it properly for you?

Shaving your head sounds so freeing though!! And it’s hat season.

Shave your head, wear a hat for a few weeks (it’s winter, no one will comment), then go and get the lice-free regrowth tidied into a pixie before Xmas. Job done!

In terms of what people think: say you’ve done it to raise money for charity. Even set up a gofundme page and raise a few quid for your fave charity for real.

Good luck I reckon shave it and go from there

Just cut you’re own hair in a crappy short style, treat the problem and then go to hairdresser to get the hair neatened up!

I will probably get flamed to hell and back for even mentioning this, but we've used puppy flea shampoo a couple of times to kill the buggers stone dead. Cat/kitten flea shampoo is even milder, but we just used what we had in the house.

Use a hair straightener, the heat will kill the eggs.

This, absolutely.
You need to know for certain whether you actually have lice.
I used to catch them from one of my kids and regular wet combing (with a proper nit comb) does work... do it over a white basin or a white towel so you can see if you have "caught" anything.

When we had this issue my hairdresser said I should have gone to her. So long as she was warned it would have been fine she would have dealt with it.

Has your hairdresser specifically said no?