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I can't get rid of these stupid nits

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BestUseADifferentName · 04/08/2019 19:56

I'm using a nitty gritty comb with conditioner, but DD's hair is so fine I can see the eggs go between the teeth with the hair and they don't come off. I'm trying to just individually pull each one off I see but it will take the rest of my natural life if I carry on like this.

I've used Hedrin Once, which killed the remaining live lice, but didn't get rid of the eggs (I didn't really believe it would anyway).

I have been blow drying her hair and I'm going to straighten it.

Do I need to wash her bedclothes every day?

Any more advice is welcome because I don't know what to do. This has come at the shittest time for me, I feel like I'm losing it.

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Ilovesweatybollocks · 05/08/2019 18:57

@surreysnapper not heard of using straighteners but I'm gonna give it a go. Anything to get rid of the vile little cretins

surreysnapper · 05/08/2019 19:00

another technique I used was to douse the hair in conditioner and then wrap it up in clingfilm for half our before nitty gritty combing it, washing drying and straightening.

im no expert... though, it's just a combo that worked for us

PriestShame · 05/08/2019 19:07

Went though this with my eldest for years. When she started blow drying her hair at the highest heat age 12 they went. At the time I thought it was more to do with the fact she was older so not as close contact to other kids..
However then I went through the same thing with my youngest and thought I’d have a go at the blow drying and it worked! It has to be on the highest heat. My youngest was 8 when we did this so it’s not as if she was at the stage where she wasn’t as tactile with friends.
I mean, it could be coincidence, but worth a shot for you op?

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newtb · 05/08/2019 19:31

We found that, after spending a fortune on malathion (16€/time), that bog-standard head and shoulders shampoo and the nitty gritty comb worked a treat.

RuffleCrow · 05/08/2019 19:39

I tried evrything with my kids. Bloody frustrating. Then found DGJ lice repel shampoo (got mine from Waitrose) and used that in between doses of hedrin. Kids have been nit free for months

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