Best chemical treatment for headlice

[Liceylicey]

I want to blast these buggers

Hedrin Once and a Nitty Gritty comb

Physical combing is better than chemicals.
Nitty gritty comb every couple of days with a mountain of cheap conditioner.

Sorry to jump on the thread but we are struggling with the same issue. We have done the combing for hours every 3 days to the point where DDs long hair is breaking off but must be missing some as it's been a month. We've tried lyclear and Hedrin. Is there anything out there with a proper insecticide in please?

If you use the hedrin you leave on for ages it smothers them. But you need to use it according to instructions.

Hedrin used properly always used to be the best. And the little buggers couldn't develop immunity.

Sadly we've done it absolutely according to the instructions and yet still can't clear it. I think part of it was reinfection from other kids at school but now it's the holidays we did it again night before last and yesterday I spotted one crawling. We've said no play dates until it's sorted but it horrible for her.

All the labels I've seen say non insecticide. Does anyone know one with insecticide we could try please? We are desperate now!

I'm after advice on getting rid of headlice. I've been infested with these little pests. No idea where I got them. My daughter who lives with me works in a school so maybe they came home with her. We both have very thick hair and have used two different brands of treatment. I have also been bitten by the little blighters on my neck and hairline. Any advice please.

My dd was crawling a few months back and the rest of the family got them too. The only thing I used was the nitty gritty comb and olive oil or conditioner every other day for 2 weeks, plus washed all clothes, coats, bedding plus hoovered back of sofa, car seat etc I then used the nitty gritty comb once a week just to make sure for a few more weeks

Oh and to say you have to comb through for at least an hour. I would sit there with the telly on and comb through with a bowl of water to rinse the comb and paper towel to wipe the comb. You need a lot of patience!

Hedrin. It's not chemical but it's absolutely the best.

You also have to wash bedding, sofa cushions, soft toys, hoover etc.

Don't do either or, do both.

First comb with nit comb and conditioner for a few days, divide the hair up into sections.

Then apply chemical.

Follow up again few days after with nit and conditioner again.

I think people make the mistake of relying on one.

This.

We have parents at school who,only do the combing every few days. It's rarely ever enough.

I'd use both - and treat more than once.

Then once clear, use the comb and conditioner method each weekend.

Even now - as a 50y adult and no child at home - I run the nitty gritty comb through my hair, with conditioner on, each weekend. I work with small children and it's not uncommon to spot head lice and nits on some of them. So, I do this each weekend usually and so far, so good.

The chemicals do not work. As you will have seen when you find very alive headline post treatment. Essentially they all rely on nitcombing anyway

a nitty gritty comb alone does work. Without ridiculous boiling/washing Bedding coats etc.

Nitty gritty comb every day (with cheapo conditioner which they can wash out after if they want but we never had enoughleft to bother), continue for a fortnight after you find your last nit. After tge first fortnight you can miss the odd night and it won't take as long, you cannot miss more than 2 nights in a row

In reality that might mean realistically you are combing for over a month.

My girls (now aged 15 and 8) have been magnets for head lice throughout primary school unfortunately. At one point I was getting rid of them and then a couple of weeks later there'd be a couple of giant adult lice picked up from a child at school.

Hedrin is by far the best, it was 10 years ago and it still is now! I usually use Hedrin once gel that you leave on for 15 mins (or something like that) but recently I used Hedrin from the pharmacy which is a mousse you leave on overnight and it was fantastic and washed out with only 2 shampoos! The gel takes so so many shampoos, is so greasy and stings the eyes if it drips down.

The Hedrin is always followed by a meticulous nitty gritty combing session and then I do a less meticulous comb after every hair wash and conditioner as more of a checkup.

I've used all the other brands of lice stuff and they range from pointless to only half effective. There's often live lice left when I combed afterwards and some brands don't kill the eggs so it just prolongs the effort and stress.

You should continue combing for 3 weeks as that's the life cycle. 2 treatments 1 week apart is not enough so I'd do another one after the 2nd week. Or comb every 2-3 days for 3 weeks so you catch all the newly hatched lice before they are old enough to reproduce