I vacuumed my hair trying to get rid of lice

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Fedup with scratching and the treatments haven't worked so while I was hoovering the house I got so annoyed I held it to my head it felt really good 😂
Everyone else thinks it's very weird.

This is genius.

Imagine greeting the parcel delivery guy arriving at the 2hr clingfilm stage though!

Another vote for the NittyGritty comb. Regular combs, even really fine-toothed ones just don’t work.
After years of trying everything, this is the only thing that always works.

We had a cat that loved the vacuum cleaner, he had long hair (and probably fleas) it made his grooming so much easier and I'm sure got rid of a lot of fleas, flea dirt and eggs. He was an absolute pain, as soon has you got the vacuum out he was under it.

You need one of those electronic zappa combs. My daughter used to use it first thing when she got in the house after school. Well passed that stage now - but when she was in primary school - it was a constant issue.

Yes, I’d second the electric zapper comb. Less messy and more effective than all the lotions, and it’s quite satisfying frying the little bastards.

I used to look through the hair especially around the nape and cut each hair off with an egg with nail sissors and throw it away. It ended up being the best way but hard to do it on yourself.

Fucking hate lice, going through them yet again now. Combed the whole house, DS1 appears to be patient zero, seems to have only spread to me. I've had dandruff issues for twenty years, so an itchy scalp doesn't make me think "lice!"

Got Hedrin 8 hour treatment for free from the chemist (yay, Wales) and it appeared to be killing adults way before the 8 hours were up!

If I could choose two species to go extinct, it would be lice and fleas, fucking things!

My mum used to soak our hair in brown vinegar. Absolutely stank and stung my eyes 😂 but it worked x

Update: although just Googled and apparently it’s entirely anecdotal and doesn’t work 🤷🏼‍♀️ well my whole childhood has been a lie. Maybe I still have nits 25+ years later 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

@CammyChameleon can we add thread worms to this 🙏🏼 DD had these recently and it was 🤮

I don’t have lice but I think I’ll hoover my head just for the novelty 😂

I can understand why you wanted to do it, but not sure it will help! Good luck shifting them.

There’s a place in Wandsworth that will charge you £120 for hoovering your hair to get rid of lice (not just for fun). Results in our house have been achieved using NitWits spray & the white lice comb from Superdrug on DD (most effective one I’ve come across to date), otherwise smothering the wee shites in hair dye. I also treat DD routinely every 4-6 weeks after one of her nursery teachers mentioned that the staff anecdotally keep the lice at bay using this method.

Professional lice treatment companies like Hair Force hairforceclinics.com/ do exactly that. Vacuum the hair. Check out their videos. They have special attachments as I recall. I've taken my kids there when they were young. They also go through the hair with a Nitty Gritty comb after vacuuming. I suggest you "re-vacuum" in a week and keep using the nitty gritty comb if you can. It's hard with curly hair but with some Moroccan Oil (or similar) it may become easier.

Near where we live is a super expensive swanky clinic salon type place that vacuums out nits for you.

https://g.co/kgs/YTfzm9Z

I have thick wavy hair, so I sympathise. I remember one time resorting to bleaching my hair blond to get rid of them. However last time 2 doses of Hedrin worked.

it is weird. however, if it feels good ... just be aware that nits (the eggs) are sticky and not so easily removed. get a nit comb on the job!!

Hedrin once (but use it twice maybe 7-10 days apart). Nit comb. Check free circa a week after second application. Treat everyone in the house.

As I said earlier, you won’t kill any of the LIVE eggs as they're less than 1mm from your scalp which is too close to get a hair straightener! Yes you'll kill the actual lice but not the live eggs! So in 10 days - 2 weeks they'll hatch. All you're doing is cementing the dead eggs to your hair

Well if its good enough for people to pay over a £100 I'll use my hetty hoover and hope for the best! I usually pick them out of the kids hair so know that eggs are difficult to get but the lice are easy to move from the hair but very fast so tend to hide.

I'm with you it feels so nice..my dad used to to it to me as a child and now I do it to the kids too lol

Me too. I'm going to join this thread for the solidarity because I'm losing sleep over it.

We definitely, I mean I think definitely, eradicated dd's headlice about two months ago and then she caught a fresh load last week. She hates being combed

I didn't catch it the first time but I'm so itchy now, I'm convinced I've got them.

But last time she had them none of us caught them... I still scratched my head raw just thinking about them, making me think I had them.

Like Lady Macbeth scrubbing her hands till they bled because she thought she saw blood on them! Aaargh

Ps the "me too" was the dandruff/lice issue!

I actually miss nits. I used to love combing them out. I'm a bit strange like that.

Tea tree oil neat has always worked here. 15 minutes on and then comb comb comb with conditioner every day for a week. You need to wash the oil out with fairy liquid before water or it never comes out!