You are a lazy fcukwit, voseene shampoo does not prevent nits .

[droves]

Person who shall remain nameless had me .

Dd4 (asd) had caught nits. I found it in time and it has been treated and cleared , and has not spread to any of the other children.

Phoned around everyone who has been in recent contact with dd4 to inform them , and ask them to do head checks on their children ( and themselves) .
Have even offered to buy them treatments if they need it.
Most people were very nice about it actually .

Except one nutter who told us that it's ok ,as she washes her ds with voseene shampoo , but she doesn't really care as all kids have nits anyway .

No wonder nits keep doing the rounds if thats the attitude of some parents .

It's not hard to run a bone comb through when your bathing the dcs is it ?
Am I bu ?

shit I never check - thought it would be obvious? I have 3 dc, 2 at school (7 and 4) - never had nots as far as i know? One of them has long floppy hair at the moment! panic panic! I get there hair cut once a term, due to go tommorow - the hairdresser would tell me wouldn't she?!?!?!?!

are nits really that bad? I only ask as nobody in my family has ever had them, not me or my siblings or any of our kids?
genuine question

My DS is four and has short blond hair but he has lots of it so it's very dense. I didn't see them until it was washed and they all appeared Luckily the nitty gritty comb sorted that out easily.

Recently I have scalped him given him a more extreme haircut so I hope that'll help. DD is the one though. She has fine, bobbed hair and I've heard that pubescent girls are more susceptible due to hormentals. Not sure if that is true but seems to be in her case.

I use vosene kids shampoo that is meant to be a nit repellent for me and dd (2.7) and comb her hair weekly as nits are an issue at her nursery as some people arent treating them. It doesnt get rid of them its just meant to repel them!dd has not had them yet but she only goes twice a week!

I have also read on a previous thread years ago from one of our male posters that cheap neat vodka on the head works wonders.

Wouldn't recommend it on a school-night though

You'll probably find most minor ailments schemes are now being de-commissioned, in some cases PCTs will have made the decisions, in others GP Clinical Commissioning Groups will have been involved but will have had little choice because of the pressure to cut budgets.

Nits prefer clean hair that isn't brushed a lot.
My mother was obsessed with nits when I was little. My db and I had them quite a lot, mostly because they became immune to the eye watering chemicals our heads were regularly doused in regardless of whether we were infested or not.
They are boring to get rid of, so as well as checking often, don't wash your dc's hair so much, and brush brush brush!

It's not hard to run a bone comb through when your bathing the dcs is it ?

YABU by assuming said parents bath their children regularly!

Is the nitty gritty comb NOT the one that beeps when it hits a nit? I had that once and it was crap, it buzzed every time it hit a tiny little tangle or bit of grit. My daughter was treated in the last week of school but the other day I found more . She was absolutely crawling with them. I'm assuming they were immune to the Lyclear I used. Treated her again, and I'm STILL pulling the little fuckers (live) out of her hair. Really at a loss now. Lyclear has always worked in the past so I genuinely wasn't expecting her to (still?) have them or to have been reinfested so fast.

befuzzled oh yes, your hairdresser will not only tell you, she will announce to the whole salon that she is 'not legally allowed to cut certain people's hair'
or maybe you have a different hai

• or maybe you have a different hairdresser to me...

This website ought to be compulsory reading for all new parents

NO "treatment" shampoo or lotion will eradicate lice totally. You have to break the life cycle (21 days) to make sure they are all gone. droves you are right about them surviving a nuclear war the little feckers are indestructible!

My 2 DD's had terrible lice in pre-school until my SIL put me onto that website link above once I understood how the buggers breed I could follow a plan to iradicate them & keep them away.

However as many parents are too fecking idle say they're too busy to sit & comb through regularly THAT's why they come back, even if the head is clear one day, if you've missed a few eggs (easily done) then hey presto they're back.

If your child is clear then every 3 days or so is good, & the more often you do it with your child, thick hair or not, the easier it becomes.

bottle of beer

There isn't a product on the market that will clear lice in one dose. If you are going to use chemicals you need to repeat it two weeks later, and in some cases another 2 weeks after that.

Breaking the life-cycle is all very well. Twenty-one days. That's fine. But when the DC are in contact with other untreated children then it becomes impossible.

Perhaps we might be nit-free in August

There are plenty of one off treatments. Lyclear, Full marks mousse etc...and they have always worked in the past. Of course I re-check their hair after treatment and she appeared to be clear after the last treatment. Saw her scratching again last week and here we are. This is the first time Lyclear hasn't worked (I'm presuming anyway, it may be that she's been re-infected since then).

I long ago stopped bothering with the ones that needed to be repeated because they just didn't work - Derbac, Hedrin....

ZX I know it's SO frustrating but keep combing.

bottleofbeer keep combing!

It's such a bind, isn't it.... We are coping with in the school hols but I imagine how much more of a nightmare when you are both working and have multiple kids to check and comb etc. Keeping combing! PS Check out the thread about them with the info on using lavendar water, it's really helping me to get tough on the eggs.

I've also just read that thread again and have ordered a Nitty Gritty, can't wait!!! : )

I can thoroughly recommend the Nitty Gritty. It looks quite terrifying, but actually zips through conditioned hair very easily, as long as you'be brushed it first.

My two have long hair - DS has had a few walkers and a few eggs, but DD is unbelievable. One day I got almost 100 eggs out of her hair (this is what makes the Nitty Gritty so good, it takes out a good percentage of the eggs with each combing.

Honestly, she actually likes the "buh-bah hunt", and likes to look in the pot of hot water that I dip the comb in after each pass.

I kid you not.....when she's had them badly, that pot looks like Wembley Stadium by the time I'm done!

I comb them both every other day, regardless of infestation, although when DD has them badly I go nuclear and comb at least twice daily. I even clamp a small torch between my teeth and pick out individual eggs missed by the comb.

Swines. As for their purpose - they have none, they're bloody parasites, and that's that.

DS1 last got them when he was 14. 14!! I was moved to ask him what exactly it was he was doing that was taking him into such close contact with Heads With Nasties.

I gave up on all lice treatments in the end and just used lots of conditioner and repetitive combing. Mind you, had I known about the vodka I might have tried that one with the odd tot for me of better stuff

greygardens they are blood-sucking parasites on your head, and their poo on your scalp causes you to itch. Some people seem to be more sensitive to their droppings than others, too.

minouminou - you are hardcore!

If only every other parent was as responsible.

scalped DS has arrived home and looks clear so far...

I last got them when flatsharing with The Girl Who Did Not Wash. Fortunately, she was brave enough to warn us all before they got really established. I was too poor to afford the shampoo, so I nitcombed my hair every night for half an hour every day for a few weeks, and I dipped my hair in scalding hot water, almost to my scalp. Not something I'd recommend with a squirmy child!

But it worked well for me. Please don't try it at home. I don't want to be sued!

It's not so much that I feel a responsibility (although obvs I do), but the fact that I. Hate. Parasites.

Every time I see one of the little bleeders on that comb, I really enjoy sending it to its scalding death. I even mutter silently to myself as I dip it into the hot water....."I bet yer wish yer 'ad wings NOW, don't yer, yer bastud...."
Thing is, though, on a practical note, make the experience of the bug hunt as fun as poss,,,,,if my two were less compliant, I wouldn't be able to be as diligent.