To have spent £50 on head lice treatment and still have NITS ARGH

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Help me! please - I need collective MN wisdom on this earth shatteringly boring and repeated subject.

We have had lice in our house for 3 months. 2 bottles of hedrin, 2 bottles of lyclear and a bottle of Full marks and I have just fished out about 100+ lice from dd's hair. My son had a fair few (million) and I had one in mine.

Tomorrow I am buying Lyclear again and a nitty gritty comb...
What else do I need to do? I wash bedding each time...do I need to set fire to my home

I never use the chemical treatments anymore. What I do and suggest may work for you is wash hair, apply conditioner, leave it in and wet comb through section by section. Each time you find a louse squash it to death - much satisfaction will be had.

Two days later repeat process, the two days later for a total of 2 weeks. This ensures all new hatched eggs/lice are detected.

I find lots of people do one treatment and then think they are reinfected when in fact it's new hatchers.

HTH

Nitty gritty comb, shedloads of cheap conditioner and comb every day. Thats the only thing that worked for us and we tried everything.

Thank you so much for just confirming what I need to do. I haven't nit combed regularly enough I think.

I must set the time aside to keep it up like you say for atleast 2 weeks.
I have repeated the treatment a week later as it says but it LIES on the box. They do not kill lice and eggs. They absolutely do not! If they killed eggs I wouldn't be poor and still lice ridden............

Please please use the wetcombing method

I cannot link but google The Lice Program which if followed to the letter works perfectly. All household to be treated.

Buy listerine the yellowtail gold bottle that contains alcohol. Cover hair and put on a shower cap, leave for two hours. Repeat in 7 days. It is so easy and the ONLY thing that worked for my family.

So myname and fransan - this actually got rid of them all? How do you know you havnt left any eggs? Or is a Nitty Gritty comb that good?

You need to stop relying on chemicals and treat them correctly,using the only method known to get rid of them.

Comb comb comb comb and keep combing until you have seen no sign at all for weeks.

Op I had tried every method before the listerine and they only worked a bit because if you miss just one lice it starts again. Listerine kills them all !

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Electrocute them

McNew that buzzy comb gave my sticky out ears lectric shocks lol

You know they have gone when you get no more on the fine toothed comb and that takes about 2 weeks.

The nitty gritty comb will get them if you use it often enough.

The nitty gritty comb is that good. The amount of eggs that came out of dds hair the first time after me using treatments and the normal combs for weeks were astounding.

I did it every day for about 4 weeks, but she was clear after about 5 or 6 days.

Now I do a comb every couple of days and she has had the very occassional one, but its never turned into an infestation again. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Yes be careful around the ears.

Luckily ds or dd hasn't had them yet, but I got that comb and do it every night.

Second vote for the listerine, worked for us too!!!

DD had a really bad infestation at the end of her nursery year and we spent an hour every day during the summer holidays with conditioner and a nitcomb. By the end of the summer holidays, there was no noticeable improvement. Two applications of Hedrin combined with a nit comb and she was nit free. Finally.

Comb, comb, comb. It really is the only way. I catch them in a ramekin and then toss them outside to die.

I also suspect that blow-drying kills them, because I've caught them off the kids a few times but they never get established on me; I also started blow-drying DD a few months ago and she then remained nit-free despite DS regularly bringing them home.

What about if you have them yourself?

And wouldn't the alcoholic Listerine be dangerous on a child's head?

www.nittygritty.co.uk/site/home.asp

Loves how the official site says its recommended by MN

Take a look at this website

www.chc.org/homedir/thebugbusterkit.cfm

Explains it really well and it has worked for me.

Comb and condition vote here - don't stop until 2 clear weeks and then repeat weekly

I just wet combed with conditioner in the bath every night whether they had them or not .
My DC had beautiful shiny hair

As everyone else has said, you HAVE to used a proper fine toothed nit comb, and constant vigilance. But I have thick long hair and never once got them from my son, because I regularly used hair straighteners. A friend also confirmed that scorching the little blighters worked for her and her girls!

Op does your family share combs and brushes by any chance.