to hit the bottle at 6.30pm due to headlice?

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Have just shelved my good intentions of not indulging in a midweek glass of wine tonight because found another bloody head louse.

Sorry am becoming a total headlice bore and borderline alcoholic but need collective wisdom please..

Slathered my daughter in Hedrin at weekend and have also been slavishly combing in the hope of getting rid of the little bastards before we go on holiday next week. Used the famous Nitty Gritty comb too and after obsessive-type combing have found another large headlouse.

2 questions, has anyone else found that wet combing repeatedly still makes you miss some?
And surely if Hedrin had worked (used Sunday) I should not be finding big motherf***s on Weds. I should only have wee babies?

Could she have picked up a new one today?

If you used Hedrin on Sunday and have found big beasties today then they are probably fresh from someone else's head.

Comb once, send to bed and open the bottle!

Perhaps she picked it up from another child,it could be from same kid she originally got them from?

YANBU to hit the bottle at 6:30pm for any reason

Have you tried leaving the Hedrin on? If you get the lotion sort, it makes the hair all nice and shiny - and, afaik, continues to suffocate any of the buggers that have the temerity to hatch after they're supposed to be dead.

drink a bottle of booze and tip a bottle of hedrin or easy peasy on dc head

the egss can lay/hatch etc for 2 weeks so use and comb through every day for 2 weeks after you think you find the last one

only takesone little bugger and it all starts again

Hedrin is rubbish, imo. Get some Derbac-M and count the bodies in the morning - it was like Hiroshima on dd1's pillow the other week.

I second that - use Derbac instead. Brilliant stuff. When my DH was in his first year of teaching he managed to bring some headlice home from school for me. I put the Derbac on and what looked like hundreds of headlice fell into the bath! I wet combed for days after that but didn't find any more. Very traumatic experience. DH has never brought headlice home from work since! Oh, and 6.30 is never too early for wine.

I'm shocked at the 6.30. Watershed 6.00 in our house.

Not in the slightest, risotto was my excuse

Finding a mouse in the cereal cupboard at 4.30pm yesterday was my excuse

Bin full of maggots - 6.00pm cork pop for me.

Are you using the comb that comes with it, or the metal Nitty Gritty comb? Have heard recommendations.

Is it a blood type thing?, my DS' mates have it every time, but as their best friend he never gets them. Their mums' actually get a bit p*ssed off with me, as if I am in denial about them, but we check and he just doesn't get them. Scabby lips every winter - yes! Lice - no!

My watershed is when baby goes to bed. Sometimes he goes to bed at 6pm. Honestly nothing to do with me wanting a glass of wine...

DD has them at the moment. Again. everytime we think they've gone, a load of teeny baby ones hatch out. She said her bottom was itchy tonight, I'm thinking we might have a double ended infestation. I haven't hit the bottle but did at the weekend when the inlaws visited with their opinions.

Once they are in the setting they start going round in circles. I am a practitioner and havethis problem an I get them all the time. Its annoying but there isnt really anything you can do but keep treating them. I have had them 3 times this year!

Aaah, littlebrownmouse - worms! Mmmm, my favourite. We hit the tablets at least twice a year.

I'm sure no-one warned me kids were such disgusting parasite-infested creatures!

We (ds and, this is so disgusting, I) had nits for six months on and off. They were called "Bob". They necessitated continual tippling (reckoned sufficient alcohol in bloodstream might cause them to fall off)

Bloody headlice...my DD has had them twice and has only been at school a year.

I used full marks, I think its the same people who make derbac. It suffocates lice and the eggs then you comb through.

It was horrendous (and oddly fascinating ) combing all the critters out after, but it really did the trick.

I then wet combed with a nitty gritty daily, then every other day and now twice a week.

Oh and the vosene repellent shampoo is ace, DD only caught them when we had run out.

Me again I also wet combed everyone and hot washed everything, duvets etc.