To think nits have mutated in to some super bug?

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Been lucky until now.
8 yo ds crawling with them. Put 'debac' (sp?) on over night but the buggers are still running round.
What is the best thing to use?

Nitty Gritty metal comb and lots of conditioner. Don't bother with the plastic combs, nowhere near as good.

Oh no, he cried enough when I tried to comb it this morning. He could do with having it cut but its catch 22, will a barber notice?

Yes, some nits are pesticide resistant now. He smothering agents (some Hedrin and Full Marks) should still work, but you do need to comb. Oodles of conditioner does make combing easier, and if you can get through it once (try bribery?) then the load should be lessened enough for a barber to be ok with it.

You can't take him to a barber with nits. I'm a dentist and I notice when kids with nits come to see me.

Try Hedrin it suffocates them.

Agree, Hedrin and the nitty gritty comb. For long, thick hair, the nitty gritty comb can be very painful.

Can you cut some of his hair off yourself?

Conditioner and combs day in day out is the way to go. The conditioner stops them and the eggs from sticking to the hairs so well.

I suffered from nits for years as a tween/young teen and it was horrendous. We couldn't shift them. Conditioner and combs was the only thing which worked.

A barber will notice and they won't cut it. I'm a hairdresser and we have a blanket policy on customers with nits. We don't cut the hair. No exceptions. We even have a notice up by the till informing them that even if they are found mid haircut we have to stop (and frigging disinfect everything). In 15 years I've had a fair few people pretend not to know. To get rid of nits you have to be very intensive in your attack. Lotions do not work imo. Cheap tea tree conditioner, nitty gritty comb and repeated swipes of the comb are all that you can do. Oh and hairdrying kills the eggs but I don't use that method in the summer. Make sure girls have hair plaited to the head at school to reduce the chances of getting them.

A lot of people forget to use the treatment a week later (to get rid of any eggs etc that may be left) which I think is vital? Feel free to correct me.

Yanbu, I too feel headlice are becoming resistant to the treatments. Have you a hair trimmer at home?

Put him in the bath. Wash his hair, very well. Rinse with shower. Repeat. Load his hair up with conditioner. Comb with nitty-gritty comb all over. Rinse. Blast his head with a hair dryer until his hair is completely dry and quite hot.

Regular treatment is vital to break the life cycle.

Finger nails

I have tried everything and spent hundreds
I have resorted to going through mm by mm and picking everything out with my nails

3.5 hours it took Friday night
Then another hour double checking on Saturday morning
That'll be her clear until she goes back to school (off ill today)

No combs with conditioners or anything else has worked and all it takes it one missed egg or tiny one

Oh and I've frontlined myself as I have no way of going through my own hair. The comb doesn't even go through my hair

My dd has only had one nit in her hair since starting school and I caught it with combing, but does anyone know, does using conditioner after every hair wash stop nits from laying eggs? My hairdresser thinks so, but have never heard this.

I've been using conditioner in Dd's hair since she was 2.

I use a normal, metal cat flea comb (available from anywhere that sells pet stuff).

Nitty gritty comb just breaks my hair, and hurts a lot. We use hedrin or full marks (I think hedrin works better)

You don't need a pesticide, just the oily stuff. I leave hedrin on as long as possible. Washing it off is easier than full marks (you need washing up liquid for that stuff!)

Comb through gently, use a brush first to get tangles out.
Then make sure you do it again a week later, the life cycle meansthat any eggs will hatch within the week, but not be old enough to lay new eggs themselves. So it HAS to be exactly a week later.

Most people don't realise this...that's probably why the treatments fail so often. Also reinfestation through school etc.

Conditioner and hot air hairdrying are both useful for keeping lice and nits at bat.

Ah probably explains why DD seems much better. She has long hair that matts easily so dreading combing her hair through. Will try Hedrin and conditioner in bath

We were plagued throughout junior school. I thought I must be doing something wrong (conditioner, comb etc).

They went away with their little suitcases the very day my dd started secondary school. I kid you not.

YANBU! My daughter used to be plagued with them, we used Hedrin too. I found the best thing was the Nitty Gritty comb and Wilkos own brand of nit shampoo (it's about a fiver).

I had a recurring problem with my daughter who was constantly being reinfected by a child in her class.Her head was getting sore from all the chemicals. Switched to conditioner and nitty gritty, but also I bought a Robi comb and did her hair every night when she came home from school, that way we caught the buggers before they could cause a full on re infestation. It was weirdly satisfying to hear the zapper working.

I'm a recent convert to Hedrin, having been a Full Marks user before. They both work. But Hedrin washes out afterwards much more easily. Though I still like Full Marks on long-haired DD as it doubles as a deep conditioning oil treatment, and as her hair is normally tied back it doesn't matter if it's still lank/greasy the day after.

Pure neem oil and a fine tooth comb. Smells absolutely horrid though. Nits will stay away but so will everyone else .

My YD's best friend has changed schools and miraculously the headlice have gone.
Having said that though, my DD's haiir is so fine that even nitty gritty wasn't bringing out the eggs, so we were treating a lot. The one smothering treatment that really worked for us was Nyda. It smells like petrol but the nits were literally jumping out of their hair onto the comb to get away from it as it covered their scalps, and it's so slippery that the eggs come out really easily too, either with a plastic comb or a nitty gritty.