To be losing the will to live re head lice?

[OkPedro]

I'm sorry to post this here but I'm desperate
My dd (9)got head lice for the first time lucky in June
I did the usual treatment and combing, bloody endless combing for 2 weeks
She then came home with them the last day of school
I've not used a treatment since but I've combed using the nitty gritty comb and picked the eggs and nits from her hair every day since the first day of July!
Today I find adult lice after combing
What am I doing wrong
I'm losing the will to live

My daughter told me that she was sitting behind a girl in assembly and she could see “crawlies on her head moving”
I was speechless when she told me and I went into the school the next day and spoke to the deputy head who informed me that they were aware of the situation and were dealing with it but had a problem as

the lice can only stay alive on hair
This is your mistake, they certainly can survive 24hrs on items other than hair.
Believe those that suggest washing all and anything “hair” has touched.
Use chemicals and treat the whole family at the same time.

Continued
The family of the child do not speak English and their child has head lice and they don’t even know how to treat her.

Thanks hp straighteners will be used tomorrow!
avamiah
I went to school with two sisters who had lice crawling down their forehead to their eyebrows
They were severely neglected
I always remember the day their "aunt" collected them from school
We never saw them again

OkPedro,
I can believe it,very sad.

Thank you grasslands
I will be fumigating all soft toys, bedding and hats
I'll be replacing all hair brushes too

The family of the child do not speak English and their child has head lice and they don’t even know how to trwat her

Is the school genuinely suggesting that there is no means of communication between this family and education/ health services??

If this is the case, surely they have a safeguarding responsibility. How does the child access health care?

How did the child even get enroled in school in the first place?

Comb every day with nitty gritty comb using conditioner of course. However put a few drops of tea tree oil in the conditioner. After a week reduce to every other day and then tail off your combing until you’re no longer finding nits or eggs. We did this for my DD, took a whole summer holiday but unfortunately it turns out she doesn’t itch with them which is why it got so bad. After you’ve got rid of them do a once a week comb with the nitty gritty in the bath or shower, making sure you put a few drops of tea tree oil in the conditioner every time. Don’t bother with chemical treatments, the nits are immune! Whilst you’re getting rid of this infestation make sure to change your child’s bedding regularly. Good luck

Are you treating the whole household? As Sunnyjac says some people don't itch with them. You do need to usually do the repeat treatment. The first treatment gets the live ones and the combing gets rid of some but not all of the eggs. Repeating the treatment after 7-10 days should kill and babies which have hatched before they are old enough to lay more eggs. Bung on some Hedrin, pop a swim hat on, watch a film then wash it off. Repeat two weeks later. The summer holidays is a great time as they are all off school so less likely to see whichever child has them. When they go back check their heads regularly.

goes off to scratch head

I've always found the overnight one to be most effective. I hear every time I find a live louse. You need to get every single egg out, thats the tricky bit

My dd has long, thick tightly curled hair which is an absolute bloody nightmare to comb wth the nitty gritty. Hair straightener is your friend here! She got nits from a “friend” at preschool whose parents evidently weren’t bothered about it so would come home every week with new, giant ones that couldn’t posibbly have grown that big since the night before (nursery tried to tell us that’s what had happened🙄) hair straighteners got rid in one go, was super.

This was us last summer holidays! DD has thick long hair and I got so fed up with the conditioner and comb routine and so did she. I got hedrin from over the counter not on the shelf and sectioned the hair into tiny sections, it worked thank goodness.

Tea tree oil in your conditioner to keep them at bay is a pro tip.

They can live away from the head. As a child my Mum picked a live adult out of my hair. She put it in an egg cup to take to the school to complain (!) and it lived for a week in an egg cup!!!

Hoover around her bed and change her sheets!

You can get rid of them, even with very long hair & just using a comb. I used conditioner & a Nitty Gritty comb on DD who has very thick, almost knee length hair. They are now gone. You need to section the hair, work from the front & go down/backwards each time. Thoroughly detangle first with a wide toothed comb. Use a large claw clip, or two, to keep the rest of the hair coiled up each time. When one section is clear, drop it down the front/side (in a little clip) & move on to the next section. It takes me about an hour to comb through her hair fully in this way each time. She is very good at sitting still, though, & I put a DVD on for her & tell her the alternative is that we cut it all off...