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.

My daughter has incredibly thick hair and it took a lot of combing and several treatments. Make sure you hot wash towels and bedding too. They do look like eggs on the photo but it can take months to comb them all out as even after they're all dead they cling on to the hair. I think just talking/thinking about them makes your head itch!

Yes that's what I do. I wipe the comb on toilet paper. Phew. Just nit combed dd's hair. Took over an hour but she is definitely nit and louse free.

Now I will do my hair. Ivd got another treatment from rhr pharmacy called lyclear that is supposed to kill both lice ahd nits but the instructions are really weird. You are meant to apply the shampoo. Wait for 15min. And then nit comb your hair before washing out the shampoo. Why do you have to nit comb it before you wash your hair? Is it just like a conditioner? I just want something thst kills the zoo on my head.

And yes I've got the nitty gritty comb.

Lyclear works by paralysing them and/or physically suffocating them. You nitcomb afterwards to remove all the little corpses. Then you wash your hair to remove the Lyclear.

You need to use the Hedrin treatment. Apply it liberally. Its oily and the lice can't escape and the nits come off on the nitty gritty. Reapply a few days later (I can't remember the instructions) and then reapply again a week later until its all clear.

It is expensive though esp when you have to use a couple of bottles each time to treat four people - parents and kids but its the only thing that works for us.

Wash hairbrushes, put them in the freezer to kill anything. Wash all bedlinen, coats with hoods, hoodies and towels.

One of my DC had them repeatedly about five years ago. Someone in the class didn't treat at all which I know for a fact as they had a sibling in my older kid's class and when my older kid was complaining about having to spend an hour being treated, the sibling replied that her mother didn't bother treating them.

We ended up treating with Hedrin treatment and then using conditioner every second day and spending hours combing through four heads. Its so time consuming and a horrible job. I put on movies while doing my kid's hairs so they were occupied.

Its like trying to keep a candle lighting in the wind when some parents don't bother as the cycle repeats.

It's 2.24am and im exhausted but the lyclear treatment is done. I combined my hair while the lyclear was in it but I didn't find a single louse. Not even one. My combing technique is not very efficient and quite haphazard but even then im surprised I couldn't find a single louse. There weren't that many nits ( or what I believe to be nits) there either though maybe yhat is because i nitcombed a couple of days ago. My head is still itching. Though maybe that's the repeated treatments. Also im allergic to nickel so maybe im reacting to the nit comb.

I think I'll give it a rest now. See if the itching gets better or worse. Why can't I find any lice? Something must be laying all those eggs. Unless they are not nits but pieces of my brain that have fallen through all the holes the nit comb has made in my head.

The picture is too blurred to see if they are the tear shape of nits, but they could be.

If you've found lice at any point then they may have laid and it's taking a while for the nits to come free.

When I had lice after DS got them I found they loved hanging out on the crown of my head. There and behind the ears/ on the hairline are the classic places to find the insects, in my experience.