Are these nits? (Sorry, pic attached)

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I am going absolutely crazy. I have used hedrin shampoo three times now. I can't see any lice but my head is still itching every night and when i nitcomb my hair it's full of these white drop thingies. Dh thinks it's the just dandruff but I'm convinced it's nits and ive probably got lice too but just cant catch them. I found 4-5 live lice in ds' hair a couple of weeks ago but after using hedrin twice he seems to be nit and lice free.

Oh i don't know how to attach a photo. I just copied it from the clipboard but it doesn't seem to get posted.

Looks like they are under review. Maybe a lovely sight for people to wake up to tomorrow..😔

Photo is still being approved.

Do you mean hedrin treatment or a shampoo? Did you fully coat all of the hair and scalp and follow the instructions about the time gap?

Hedrin irritates scalps so makes you feel itchy and dead eggs will stay clinging to your hair for months. So the presence of eggs doesn’t mean a current infection.

Hedrin shampoo. The first time it was with hedrin shampoo that was past its expiry date by about 3 years though. I think i coated all of my hair but then my hair is insanely thick. And I definitely left it on for much longer than the prescribed 5min.

The last hedrin treatment was on Sunday. And ny head has just been itchy throughout.

Also does hedrin kill nits? It doesn't really say for sure on rhe packet. I suspect it just kills the lice and then you are dependent on catching the newly hatched lice with the next treatment.

How is a picture of potential nits sensitive content ?? 🤣🤣😑

I just thought some people might find it a bit gross so wanted to give them a moment to think if they really wanted to see it..

So did you see it? Are you saying it's definitely nits😱

Are you sure thats not just dry scalp because those shampoos are quite harsh if you use them a couple of times?

Conditioner on and thoroughly combing through with a nit comb every few days is the only thing I've ever found that works with nits.
I'm not sure the shampoos kill the eggs properly - they seem to get the live lice, but not the eggs.
I remember all the children getting them, and we just couldn't get rid of them. We'd use the shampoo, and then a week or two later they's be crawling them in again.
Conditioner, nit comb, every time you wash hair for a good few weeks.

My hair is very very thick. It takes over an hour to go through it with a nit comb and even then I'm sure I'm not catching every strand. How on earth am I going to catch all of them?

When you use conditioner do you wash it out before nit combing or do you comb your hair with rhe conditioner still in it? I have tried both but leaving rhe conditioner in it while combing made combing very difficult.

I just want to get rid of all of my hair but I can't even get a hair cut in case I have got lice. Uggh.

We cut ds' hair with a long hair trimmer to about 4mm as apparently lice need about 6mm of hair to hang on to. Is that true?

I see no lice in that photo…

I sympathise OP, I also have thick curly hair and caught the little blighters off the DC!

Yes, conditioner on, don't rinse & comb through. Rinse the comb every time. Then rinse conditioner out. It's infuriatingly time consuming, but IME the only thing that works. I actually remember being on holiday and combing through the DC's conditioned hair - argh.

Maybe others have better advice, but I remember it so well - an outbreak at DC's primary school, everyone had them - the shampoos got rid of them for about a week, then they came back. This was the only thing that worked for me.

I'm itching now just thinking about it!

Oh every day’s a school day, lice and nits aren’t the same thing!?! I’m nit convinced there are eggs in your photo either though, it does look more like skin flakes but really hard to tell from a photo. The itching could be psychological if you’ve convinced yourself you have them!

Looks like skin to me too. Have you seen any actual bugs?

Nits are the eggs, the lice are the insects.

When I was about 8, I remember coming home from gym club and having seen one as I did a forward roll, asking my mother if it was normal to have insects in your hair...

No that looks like dandruff to me.

Lice have legs - and you would see them = nits are oval like small grains of rice. those look flaky,, google nits

It's a really bad photo and I think there is dandruff as well on the comb which doesn't help. I've never had a problem with dandruff but apparently having lice can cause dandruff as well.

The reason why I think they are nits and not skin flakes or dandruff is because they are tear drop shaped and kind of firm and smooth rather than flaky. 5hey are about 1mm in size.

I think I found a single louse when I first checked about 3 weeks ago but then I never found any lice again.

I did Google what they look like But I'm still not sure. Most pics I find show magnified nits (or so tiny i can't compare them to mine).

You've probably aggravated your scalp with the comb and/or the chemicals.

I'd give it a rest for a few days and then do the combing just with conditioner for a bit.

You can go to a hairdresser, they'll check it through for you but if they found anything they might stop, or just refuse to dry it as that makes the eggs hatch apparently! 🫣

if they’re oval and firm they could be dead nits. Do they make a little popping sound if you pop them? If not, they are dead

The lice look like tiny insects crawling around. They resist hair washing by clinging to an individual hair. The shampoo kills them.
The nits are the eggs - the white seed shaped bits that are attached to the hair. The eggs are laid close to scalp, and hatch out. The shampoo often doesn't seem to kill all the eggs - they're like little white dots on the hair.
I'm somewhat embarrassed I know so much about them! I did a lot of research at the time! But fortunately not been troubled by them for well over a decade.

I tried to pop them but they are too small and don't seem to pop. If they were all dead then why is my head still so itchy? Could it just be irritated from combing or hedrin?

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I found a few lice in ds' hair so now I know what they look like. I'm sure ds was patient zero but thankfully we seem to have got rid of them in his hair but im so worried I'll pass them back to him, which makes it very awkward when he comes for a cuddle.

I can't find any in my hair, which worries me because I think they are just too fast for me to find but something must be laying all those eggs. Unless they really are all dead or hatched nits.

The fact that you can remove them from your hair with the comb also suggests they’re dead. Live nits tend to hold on for dear life. The shampoo and all that combing could have caused skin irritation. Give it a few more days, see if it settles

That’s looks like flakes to me.

In my experience my head is super itchy for a day or two after I use Hedrin so that could be the culprit.

Yeah - it's the eggs you need to get rid of, before they all hatch out.

That's what the combing does, either by combing out the lice themselves before they can lay anymore eggs, or by actually combing out the nits themselves. You need a proper nit comb, and do it religiously every few days/ every time you wash hair. Everyone in the family. They'll go - give it a month.

Thanks everyone. 🌺