...to ask for actual effective NIT solutions?

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My DS (6yo) school is apparantly riddled and the children simply can't stop themselves from rubbing their heads together! I found a live nit in my 3mo head the other day! Help! Have tried various Hedrin preventers and nukers, and a nitty gritty but still they come!

How often do you use the nitty gritty?
It always worked for me.
With white conditioner.

We use it when we have seen eggs / nits so maybe once every 2 or 3 weeks. Shiuld it be regular? Is the white conditioner so you can see the eggs? Thats clever!

Nitty gritty comb through wet hair and loads of conditioner, wash the comb out into a tub of warm water after each brush. Once a week. I would stick on a cartoon for them took about 20 minutes. Spray the nitty gritty defence spray onto their hair before school every day

I did leave in Hedrin on everyone then smothered in really cheap conditioner and nitty gritty. Every other day for a week. If you're only doing it every 3 weeks, you're probably not getting rid of them all. And have you checked you haven't got them?

Loads of hedrin - indecant it into a spray bottle.

Spray and comb with the nitty gritty wipe it on damp kitchen roll so you can see what's coming off / out.

Repeat the combing for a week. Every day!!

Repeat the spray and comb a week later.

If they keep getting them then I'd be combing twice a week as a check.

This is a really useful site:

www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/theliceprogram/

You have to de-nit and comb once and then a week later to catch the newly hatched before they reach breeding age and start the cycle again.

I used to use the silicone stuff that suffocates the lice, then comb the next day for good measure. Then again strictly according to the instructions.

This is all amazing advice! Thank you everyone!

Hedrin has always worked for us, the spray one you leave in for about 20 mins then wash out. I do that then comb through with conditioner and a nitty gritty comb.

Make sure her hair is always scraped back with a nit defence spray and implore her not to touch heads with anyone else or play hairdressers etc. When my DD’s got nits last time I found out they’d been playing hairdressers with some other girls at school, nit heaven!

It’s boring but being persistent is the only thing that works. Slather with Conditioner and nitty gritty comb every night for us.

The only thing that worked on my daughter was an electric nit comb.

Nitty gritty comb every other day for a fortnight at least. Also a serious dose of social ostracisation for parents who think it’s acceptable to send young children to school with long hair loose. Nits are not inevitable and I would quite happily see the return of the nit nurse.

Long Hair must be tied up neatly in plaits or buns

When my five-year old-got nits, he screamed at the nit comb and headrin. We offered him the option of cutting it very short (DH has a grade 2 as personal preference). 5 year old opted for the haircut. It definitely worked - bugger all hair means nowhere for the eggs to hide.

I appreciate that's a drastic step, but short hair/tied up with hairspray does work as a preventative measure.

Nitty Gritty comb has never failed us. It's a pain but doing it very methodically every other day for at least a fortnight does the trick. Otherwise if you miss any eggs, they hatch out after a week and you're back to square one. Stick the DC in front of the TV while you do it and it's not too bad then.

You need to use the Nitty Griity forensically too - make sure you comb right from the scalp to the end, section hair so you know you haven't missed any bits. Some people don't comb from close enough to the scalp. DC hate it, but learned quickly not to put their heads near the ones which constantly had nits in their class.

Don't knock till you try it my whole family use it and it's a lot less scary and messy than everything else.
Dog flea shampoo puppy friendly gets rid of them in one then use it a few more times job done.

I went through a period of a few years of routinely using combing and conditioner twice a week for very long haired DD while at primary school whether she was itching or not as she repeatedly kept getting them. Didn't take long as I became expert at it!

3 x DSs have never had them funnily enough but I would have kept hair at number 2 level short until secondary school if they had!

Nitty gritty comb every other day for a fortnight after spotting the lice. Then once a week just in case.

Agree with the loads of conditioner, combing every other day advice. Definitely put DC in front of TV/film/distraction.

We used to comb the DDs in front of an open fire then take great delight in chucking the kitchen roll with lice & eggs into the inferno. Less chance of the little buggers coming back...!

We've never had to use any of the ointments.

weekly checks of the hair, three days of twice daily conditioner/comb and pick if we ever find an egg or crawler.

Hedrin Once, and lots of combing worked for us. Eventually.

They had kept coming back though, I was really upset as I thought I'd done everything right, on the girls and me. Turned out DH was harbouring the little bastards, because even though he claimed to have treated himself he bloody hadn't. He just used the comb on his dry hair once and thought that was enough.

We all treated ourselves together and combed properly (him included) and we got rid, finally.