Is there a way to remove headlice when you have no headlice lotion?

[zebrachick]

Can't get to the shops til tomorrow & found a few on my son...
Conditioner & nit comb..
Is this going to remove most of them? Any other tips? Any tips sooooo welcome!

Conditioner, nit comb and pick them out with your nails.

When I had nits as a young adult (I blame the tube) I got rid of them by putting my hair underwater in the bath for ages while rubbing it vigorously to drown them, then nit combing with conditioner. Good luck!

I only used this method, doing it consistently night after night until there were no more new hatchlings/ hatchees...

I have only ever used conditioner and nit comb, usually every three days. I have never been comfortable using a pesticide on developing bodies esp since will now know what pesticides can do to the natural world. But thats me.

You don't need any special nit stuff, most nits are resistant to it anyway!

I swear by dousing hair in conditioner and combing the little buggers out with a nit comb. Then rinsing and dousing with any oil (olive, sunflower etc) and leaving it overnight - this smothers any lice you didn't get. Tomorrow comb with bit comb again and then wash his hair as normal. Repeat in two days to get any new hatchlings.

I use olive oil and nit comb. Oil suffocates them more reliably than conditioner. But unlike head lice medicated lotion, nothing else kills the eggs. So you have to repeat this every three days for two weeks to completely get rid of the lice/catch new ones that hatch.

I used to put on loads of conditioner, then put in a shower cap (wrap the head with cling flim) leave as long as possible - preferably overnight. Then comb.

Ooh you lucky thing. I used to love combing DGD's hair looking for nits. She kept catching them from her best friend. When friend moved a long way away my secret pleasure was no more .

A fine nit comb (nitty gritty is the best IMO) and loads of conditioner, go through in small sections a few times each.
I’ve heard (but not tried) that coconut oil dissolves the outer shell on them if you smother it on the hair and scalp and cover with cling film overnight. Then comb out with nit comb, shampoo in neat to emulsify the oils and then wash normally.

Nitty gritty comb and plenty of conditioner.

Brill, thanks everyone!

Is his hair long enough to use hair straightners on?

I don't understand why people are so keen on the chemicals - nitty gritty and conditioner is honestly much more effective

Yes hair long enough for hair straighteners...will that kill them?

Definitely conditioner and comb. Repeating a few times a week until they're gone.

That expensive headlice shampoo was absolutely useless on my daughter's long thick hair (and mine once I caught them from her).

My dd had them every single day for 6 years-two parents at school just didn’t care if their children had them/passed them on

And of course it was my child the teacher used to sit the pair of them next to even though I’d asked her not to

Their hair moved with lice as big as flies at times

I heard one mum say that ‘I work full time-I don’t have time for nits’

I used to brush through her hair,section it off,pick out as many of the adult lice as I could get out and then I’d use the cheapest conditioner I could get,comb that through and comb like hell to get the eggs/any adult lice I’d missed

Repeat everyday and slowly you’ll get them all out-if you have one a nitty gritty comb is best but failing that a metal toothed comb-the white plastic ones are awful

My record was 569 adult lice in one sitting-she’d been to her dads and he ‘didn’t notice’ until she’d come home and it turns out he’d caught them from her (all my fault,ovs)

DD had nits when we had the 2007 floods and consequently little water, so washing was extremely limited, especially hair. I eradicated them by using a nit comb three times a day.

@JoanOgden

When I had nits as a young adult (I blame the tube) I got rid of them by putting my hair underwater in the bath for ages while rubbing it vigorously to drown them, then nit combing with conditioner. Good luck!

Lice can survive for hours underwater, sorry

Just as everyone else has said. Cheap conditioner slathered on, nit comb. Best way.

Another one who recommends hair straighteners, frazzle the little b*ggers :)

Conditioner and nit comb work great.
Headlice only drown after 16 hours so not a workable approach unfortunately.

Straighteners .. another vote here. Never used any other method after using them

I got rid of my daughter's headlice by combing m with a nit comb Anything that looked suspicious was either combed or pulled out with tweezers. I used conditioner some of the times but also combed just wet hair (meant I could see them better).

We liked the Alberto balsam tea tree conditioner which is 99p for a massive bottle in Tesco, Asda etc and the nitty gritty.

For the sake of 24hrs I’d go and stock up with both and comb those buggers out.

Put a towel the neck, wash and towel dry, slather conditioner on and sit in front of a film with a clean towel in your hand and comb, wipe off. Comb, wipe off.

Clean towel over pillow, wash out tea tree conditioner in morning.

Repeat on day 3 and day 6. Longer if you are still getting live lice.

If they are a general issue in school use the nitty gritty weekly after a hair wash. Theoretically using that particular comb breaks the cycle of hatching at that frequency (see their website for info!)

Neat vodka poured over hair and bagged off for some time, then combed through and rinsed off as a nuclear option, is what I've read.

Some swear by combing mayonnaise through, if no conditioner...or vodka