To want pharmacy companies to develop somethig like front line to deal wiht nits?

[soandsosmummy]

Nits, nits, bl**dy nits.

We de-flea cats and dogs by shoving chemicals on them once a month that not only kill the fleas but prevent them showing up for another month. Yet we de-nit our children and back and back come the nits.

Why can't we have something that allows us to grab them by the scruff of the neck drip on a few drops and relax for another month?

Get your act together pharmacy companies surely there must be a formula out there?

Would you offer your kids up to trial it?

the mood I'm in right now quite possibly!!!

I would! Anything has to be better than my dd having a swollen weeping scalp due to being allergic to nits!

Isn't vosene for kids supposed to have some kind of thin in it to reduce the chance of headlice?

A pharmacist recommended it to me to use once or twice a week on dNeices and they have not had a reoccurrence

Granted it could be a coincidence lol

you can use frontline spray (not spot on) I think

look at the ingredients

Really Tenderly - I'll make enquiries.

to be honest if I could grab the little girl in DD's class who everyone knows to be the source of the re-infestations and de-nit her I would. Poor poor little girl you can actually seem them moving about in her hair and she's constantly scrathing herself she's literally crawling with them and as far as anyone can tell her parents neither notice or care. Would it be very bad to invite her over for tea and do her and DD at the same time (I know it probably would be but I feel so sorry for her)

I share your pain. Had DS' hair cut shorter than usual in the hope of keeping them at bay but we still seem to get an infestation every other week.

Try a spray bottle with water and a few drops of tea tree - spray in morning before kids go to school - nits hate tea tree and will hopefully choose someone else to infest! Also, leaving conditioner in the hair deters them too.

HTH

Tip I learnt but haven't tried out yet: Dove conditioner, one full bottle per head, leave on for as long as the child can stand it (a couple of hours?), wash away. The idea is to suffocate the lice with something that it gentle on the scalp. Comb after. I hope it works.

BTW - I used Vosene with anti-lice on two of mine and so far, so good. Might be coincidence.

Stalk her with a Frontline pipette

Frontline does not work in many cases. All tiny critters become resistant to the things that are supposed to kill them - tis evolution. End of the world is not going to be caused by over-population or global warming or meteor collision or nuclear war, imo, but in bacteria resisting all attempts to control them!

Hedrin is the best thing for nits. We prefer the mousse over the lotion (washes out better).

blimey don't frontline your kids!

i would have a word with the school it's pretty bad for the poor girl to have to live with it and i would worry about a school that didn't mention it to her parents tbh

You can get nit stuff free from good pharmacies that offer a Minor Ailments scheme. Nobody has any excuse for letting their kid walk around like that.

And obviously free from the GP.

YABU. Lets face it, nits are a pain in the arse, a complete nuisance and bloody irritating but not actually serious.

Anyway, it's not the product thats the problem, it's people not getting rid of them properly and still living in your environment. They don't just magically reappear in hair like a reoccurrence of an illness.

I'd rather pharmaceutical companies spent money on cures for cancer or medicine for long term diseases than waste time, money, effort and resources on bloody nits.

Thank you for the various suggestions I'll try to put together an arsenal this weekend

goforthandswivel - my OP was by way of being a bit light hearted and obviously I'd rather the companies focused on the things you mention but lets face it a cure / prevention that actually worked for nits would not go amiss.

Nooo what they need is Programme.. a little tablet to sterilise the little blighters of course the nits not kids