To feel utterly defeated by nits ?

[Biggadyboo]

Have two kids with learning disabilities. They have both had nits since January. Which means I have too.

Treated them first with Hedrin, three times every seven days, wet combing mid week.

still there

Then tried nitnot , no difference.

was advised by a GP friend to try Lyclear as different active ingredient. Have done that three times now. No change.

the kids both utterly hate having their hair combed. Their learning disabilities and sensory issues make it a stressful battle.

But nevertheless I’ve been fucking combing it with conditioner as much as I can the last two weeks . Almost every night. It’s utterly hell, screaming, crying, horrible. But I’ve been doing it

and today there are still literally hundreds of the bastards. I literally can’t comb them all out. There’s just too many

i don’t know what to do😭

That’s what I’m afraid of!

Once cleared long hair needs pleated and put up in a bun or similar. Lice don't jump like fleas so it's only when the childrens heads/ hair are close together that the lice can migrate, that's why it's normally younger children that get them as the play close together.

I send my 4 year old with her hair tied up every morning … she never comes home with it up, no matter how many times I tell her not to take it out because that’s why she keeps getting nits.

Mine have had their hair in a plait or bun every day of their school lives and they’re still on their 4th louse infestation (3 since Christmas!).
I got a bit cocky because pre this term only one of mine had ever had lice and that was when she was in pre school (she’s year 6 now). I was convinced it was because I always tied their hair up. Well obviously not 🙄, because they’ve all been ridden with the fuckers since Christmas.

I so feel your pain. There is clearly at least one kid at school who is not being dealt with and I can get my kids clear of the fuckers for a few days at a time, but then it's right back to square one. It's driving me completely crazy. Nitwits works best for us. I also fantasise about the hoover people, but it's not getting rid of my kids' nits that is the problem for us, it's the fact that they get them again and again. I think it's a lot worse this year tbh. No scientific evidence, but it's impossible to keep them clear now.

You need a Nitty Gritty comb, it’s excellent. It’s made from stainless steel (I think), and the teeth are long and grooved the whole way.
So, they grab the little bastards and pull them straight out of the hair.
Buy some cheap conditioner and you’ll be grand.

My bills have gone down since youngest went to secondary. Hedrin is expensive but she infected all of us!!! I'm being flippant, sorry... you've had some good advice here and wishing you the very best.

No idea if this works but someone once said about straightening the hair slowly so it burns them

What Herdrin are you using OP? Shampoo, Liquid? There's a few different types. We used the liquid and there were gone after second treatment.

Edited for typo's

I shaved my boy's head and cut my daughter's hair really short bob, I got a pixie cut

I just couldn't deal with combing, we all had long hair, it just kept coming home from school.

Once short, the combing wasn't agony

It's crap. Worst era of school.

If it lived in a jar for two weeks, it wasn't a headlouse. Or your Mum was telling fibs.

Total rubbish. Only a very weak headlouse will fall off a scalp, eggs are glued extremely firmly to the hair shaft, and a newly hatched headlouse which hatches on a stray hair will not last long at all. The chances of it successfully climbing onto someone's head are practically zero.

If it lived in a jar for two weeks, it wasn't a headlouse. Or your Mum was telling fibs

Wouldnt be so quick to call their mum a liar. I had one I stuck in a sealed specimen container as an experiment. It was most definitely a nit/head louse. Can’t recall exact time it lasted but it was definitely over a week. We nicknamed it The Terminator.

Ours in a jar died in 24 hours.
There will be a distribution. One of you should collect 100 in 10 jars, and record all times of deaths. Would be publishable (if no one's done it).

Blow drying hair every night was the best treatment I found. Conditioner and nitty gritty comb through in the bath, then a really thorough blow dry. But as others have said it only takes one or two parents not treating their child for it to be an on going problem.

I feel your pain.

ND daughter here with hip length thick hair, mine is as long and curly, DH is curly, too.

Hedrin Once. Buy multiples. DROWN everyone's hair in it - if it's not dripping, it's not got enough on.

Comb through, rinsing the comb after every pass.

Leave overnight - sleep in shower caps - comb again.

Fairy liquid neat straight onto dry hair, give it a couple of minutes, rinse out, shampoo until it suds up and then condition.

Blow dry and straighten, tight plaited bun.

Comb through with conditioner on days 2, 4 and 6, repeat the whole thing on day 7.

This has never failed us.

Keys are:

Hedrin Once - no other version.

Drowning the hair

Combing with it on - and it takes a good hour per person.

Repeating on day 7.

DD had an on/off friend who was the nitty kid. Her parents clearly just didn't bother. Every time they were friends, we had lice. When they weren't, we didn't.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/head-lice-and-nits/

Interesting that the NHS are no longer recommending tea tree oil,it's all they banged on about at one time.

Feel itchy reading this thread. My kids had best friends who were siblings. Lovely mum, but she was an anti-chemical type, believed in the mayonnaise theory which is absolute bollocks! The only thing that worked for us was stopping the kids’ sleepovers, nightly nit-combing with Hedrin and tea tree. Kids used to learn their times tables while we did it for cash rewards. Every cloud and all that.

@Biggadyboo the whole class and their families and teacher need to be treated at the same time. every night is a must really. get the tugs out with a brush and get them sitting on the floor watching a video. 2 weeks and they should be gone!

You’re never going to get the whole class and their families to treat, let alone all on the same day. There is a girl in my daughter’s class who has them visibly crawling over her hairline and forehead and her parents don’t treat them.

Poor kid.

Get in touch with a mobile hairstylist who can come to the house.
Explain that you have an infestation of head lice in the entire family.
Short hair cuts for everyone.
nitty gritty comb.

thats a bloody shame!! just neglect.

Yes, it’s hideous. Poor child.

This worked for me - slightly unconventional approach
Nitty gritty comb and a ton of cheap conditioner. Pass the comb through getting right at the roots. After every swipe, wipe the comb on kitchen paper, dunk in clean water and pass through again.
Now this is the part where I went nuclear. I got a hand held usb microscope that the kids used to look at leaves and bugs - very inexpensive bit of kit. I then passed that through the hair and over the scalp. It lets you see the really tiny eggs the comb missed. They look like tiny bits of rice on the microscope. Kid watched the laptop screen as I did this and were fascinated. I was able to pick off every last little bit. This took hours as my dc had very long hair. Hair was then washed again in the shower to get last bits of conditioner off. Hair blow dried, straightened (I thought the high heat would be good just in case there was anything left). Hair was braided and styled to reduce contact with others.
good luck!