Please please help - head lice. Worst infestation I've ever seen

[LEMtheoriginal]

I am horrified and disgusted. My poor dd

We had visitors just before Xmas and we used headrin two weeks - sorted. Or so we thought.

Just done DD'S hair with here in once as she was itchy and I've never seen anything like it

I have been combing them out of DD'S hair since 7pm and it's horrific. Like millions of them I am mortified. Like a black film of nits and it's never ending.

I need to know what to use or should I take her to the Dr? I feel we need something stronger but what??

Not ref recommend but I had lice on and off until. 16 finally got rid of them by hot washing everything and using hair dye with hydrogen peroxide in. I hate lice I'm dreading DD ever going to school.

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Can I just say Wow to all the mums out there who are fighting nits so diligently. You deserve medals. My sister and I have long thick hair and went to a rough primary school and never suffered but I'm reading with admiration and interest. One set of sisters I knew couldn't come to a sleepover of mine because of them. God bless caring parents!

Thanks for the tips - will remember them.

Apologies if anyone is offended by 'rough primary school' I realise they relish clean hair just felt like it was relevant

So I did my hair this morning with the nitty gritty and nothing I've been itchy though.

Full marks or hedrin to suffocate the buggers. We have had a bad headlice infestation and it took months to evict the buggers! Combing, hedrin, more combing, even tried mild hydrogen peroxide (my son how has highlights). I swear they were getting them back from school! You

The chemicals don’t work.

They absolutely do. But you have to repeat it.

I won't rely on just conditioner in case I miss a live one.

The biggest issue is those parents who just won't check and treat.
There is no excuse, especially when the letters are given out.
They even sell the combs in homebargains for about 35p

As I understand it (having looked it up) Hedrin is a silicone and the nits can't be resistant to it (so I take back what I said).

Apparently it interferes with their ability to get rid of water, so they become waterlogged and die!

It doesn't get the eggs though so you have to wait to see if any hatch and then use the Hedrin again.

Combing with conditioner definitely works, but with long hair it's a complete pain.

STAY AWAY FROMTHE CHEMICALS - LICE HAVE BUILT UP RESISTANCE TO THEM!!!

Think about putting nasty chemicals on your head, your children's heads! NOT GOOD!

You need to break the lifecycle- only way to do this is to manually remove the lice before they can have chukka-chukka. Wet hair, loads of conditioner, Bug Buster comb. Do this every 3 days for 2 weeks and you will sort the problem.

Of course they can be caught again that is why getting the school to run a program that educates on this helps. Look up Community Hygiene Concern - a healthcare charity that has programs for schools.

Anyone else itching reading this?

Another one to say nitty gritty comb and actually the nitty gritty lotion is rhe one that did the job for us (after weeks of headrin, lyclear, olive oil etc )

In yr 7 my daughter had an infestation that lasted a year. Every single night in the bath I combed them through, I used everything I could buy, nothing worked. In the end she was actually seeing a Paediatrician about something else and he was horrified. He said she's begun to go toxic and prescribed some highly potent stuff only available from the hospital pharmacy. No idea what it was but it worked.
My children had never had nits through primary school, hundreds of sleepovers, parties etc etc. I'd checked religiously and then she gets to secondary school!

Love the idea of adolescent nits. Do they wear baseball caps and hang about in groups? Bet they'd love the vodka treatment .

STAY AWAY FROMTHE CHEMICALS - LICE HAVE BUILT UP RESISTANCE TO THEM!!! Think about putting nasty chemicals on your head, your children's heads! NOT GOOD!

I think that is out of date info? The lotions etc that you can buy are mostly silicone, which suffocate the lice. This has been stated a few times on the thread already.

Eeeek childhood memories are flooding back, I have never been so glad that dd goes to a small rural school! I still insist that dd's hair is up out of her face at all times.

As a child, I remember having to sit every night and have my hair combed with conditioner as the girl who sat next to me would come into school and tell me ' Mummy says I have nits, she is going to kill them with vinegar and brown paper tonight'. It drove my Mum crazy, she asked for me to be moved, but as I was the only child in the class who was kind to her, nobody else would sit with her (poor little girl).

The constant combing prevented any major infestations, it wasn't until I was in the Academy that a louse fell out of my hair causing me to scream. My poor Mum sobbed the entire time she deloused me (I had taken over doing my own hair and hadn't been continuing the louse protocol) it was that bad! I sobbed along with her, crying 'get them out, get them out!' it was pretty traumatic for both of us. Thankfully that was in the days before the buggers became immune to pesticides, so my Mum nuked the sods and continued to comb every night to be sure they were gone. My Mum took over doing my hair again. I remember the mortification of my Mum calling all my friends Mums to tell them, I honestly wanted the world to open and swallow me whole!

Being a glutton for punishment I went on to become a teacher. I used tea tree and mint shampoo and conditioner (from original source) and fine tooth combed my hair every night whilst keeping my hair in a bun or braid. I also kept a healthy distance from pupils heads. I thus avoided any further infestation.

I hope that you manage to get them all out of your daughter's hair and that you and the rest of the family are not too badly infested. I too am currently itching my nit free scalp which sets on fire at the mere suggestion of headlice!

Another mammoth combing session only juveniles thankfully dp came home with full marks instead of hedrin. I might give that a go tomorrow

Hedrin Once, and a nitty gritty comb.

@LEMtheoriginal LYCLEAR! why is everyone suggesting hedrin? Lyclear suffocates the eggs and lice so it gets rid of them in like 20 minutes. You just have to come the dead ones out and repeat in a week.

Its like 14 pounds but I always have some in my cuboard

@LEMtheoriginal take the full marks back it is only a 5 minute treatment and it say 'eliminates eggs'. it needs to say 'kills lice and eggs'. Swap it for LYCLEAR and make sure its the one that says this. I don't understand why they haven't been eliminated in one session? if you get the lyclear that kills both eggs and nits then it literally is like an hour job however many nits she's got.

Good luck and avoid hedrin if shes infested basically

@LEMtheoriginal

www.superdrug.com/Lyclear/Lyclear-Shampoo-Head-Lice-Treatment-Shampoo-200ml/p/623250

It's reduced and I suggest getting three boxes for future use, its the bomb you will never look back so if she gets them again you will literally pay anything for it. Stock up while its on offer