Best head lice treatment in your experience?

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DS seems to be running a very successful Headlice Hairbnb for the past few weeks. We have treated him (and ourselves) four times and God, I am itchy just writing this. So I'm off to the chemist this morning to get something that will evict the feckers for good.

Appreciate all recommendations.

Headrin I think its called, the one that suffocates the little gits.

Buy a nitty gritty comb and a bottle of cheap conditioner. I them put the conditioner on and comb thru hair every other night for 2 weeks that gets rid of them. After that to keep them at bay repeat once a week.
Chances are there is someone in his class who is treating.

Who isn’t treating

Hedrin once treatment and a nitty gritty comb. Job done.

He’d run, nitty gritty, repeat, done.

Nitty gritty and conditioner. Do this every night for 2 weeks to break the cycle. And then weekly to make sure they aren’t coming back. It’s a total nightmare if one parent at school isn’t keeping on top of it because they’ll always come back!

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Definitely nitty gritty comb. And tea tree conditioner. Works better than any expensive nasty chemicals we’ve tried!

Conditioner and nitty gritty.
We were told a few years ago by a mother of kids 10 years older than mine that she uses tea tree oil shampoo as a preventative measure. I did since then too and we've had none despite lots of appearances in both classes. Not sure if that's coincidence but I am too afraid to stop!

Hedrin once and mousse used as per instructions and combing in between and regularly afterwards with a nitty gritty comb and lots of conditioner.

Pesticide formulations which actually kill the lice lead to the lice becoming resistant to them.

Hedrin once.

And shampoo with tea tree in or a tea tree spray. I find help.

Good advice from other posters:

• washing/conditioning/combing daily

I have a Merck (big pharma company) manual. If they could sell you a product they would but even they admit that frequent and effective combing is the best way to eradicate both the nits and the lice. The cycle is several days long so you have to keep up the hard work for at least 2 weeks.

• don't waste money on formulations

As per above and also there is some evidence that the lice/nits are becoming resistant. Smothering/suffocating them with conditioner or oil plus combing is the best way.

Hugs and sympathy - it sucks big time!

Nitty gritty all the way.

conditioner, combing out, very frequently
hair in a plait

Not treating is abuse. Ive seen kids sitting in class just going out of their minds scratching and mum has the cheek to say “oh i checked the ither day”. Lazy parenting, thinking its not your problem. Comb and conditioner and lotion.

Nit Comb and cheap conditioner every 4th night for 4 sessions. Lice will get progressively smaller. If you find a big one after the first session it's a new one from someone else outside the family and you have to start again with the four sessions.

14 days is not enough to break the life cycle. Combing every few days for 3 weeks would be better than only treating 1 week apart. Products are not good at killing the eggs so you need to catch hatchlings before they are big enough to mate and lay more eggs

www.chc.org/for-parents/ explains more about the life cycle

Another vote for nitty gritty and conditioner

I know parents who say they comb but I just dint think it catches them all.

We do hedrin to suffocate the lice, then again a week later to get the newly hatched ones and it works. We have an untreater /comber in the year we are sure as it keeps going in circles in our year.

Has anyone tried "protect and go?" Its cheaper than headlice treatment but i cant work out if its basically killing stragglers that come onto the head, and by using it weekly youre basically treating weekly (and if so as ita cheaper couldnt we use that rather than treatment)

Im thinking of trying it as my youngest gets them every few months.

Once you have cleared them (I concur with PPs - Hedrin and a conditioner/nitty gritty comb combo is what I go for) then the nitty gritty people also do a repellent spray which has tea tree, lavender etc in it. Works brilliantly and we never suffered whilst we used it. Just a spritz on the hair every morning before school - it smells quite nice but clearly appalling if you are a nit. You just want the feckers to avoid your hair and go onto someone else’s!!

Cheap conditioner and a nit comb. Every night for several weeks then once a week.

I used to do it on Sunday evenings at the same time as I cut their nails. That made it a routine so they didn't complain.