to want more than a 3 week gap with no nits?

[carrieboo75]

Tonight I found nits in my 3 boys hair yet again.

They first got them in October and since then the longest time we have been with out them is 3 weeks. I am pretty sure they have been reinfested rather than me not clearing them properly as I have been putting in hours (sometimes up to 3 hours a day before I cut ds3's long curly hair)with the tea tree conditioner and the nitty gritty comb. I have spoken to the school (I think it is someone in youngests class as youngest is always the most infested), cut 2 out of 3's hair short (eldest refused) and told the boys not to put their heads next to others but still we keep getting them.

Am I kidding myself to think we should be able to go more than 3 weeks with out nits even if their is someone in the class that is not being treated?

What can I use as a preventive to try to make the gap bigger or is it a lost cause right now?

lice with posher methods?

lice who say please?

Yes, and they wear tiny little blazers and boaters darling

thankyou. I have to nit comb tonight. I'll have a little smile while I do.

I think we are really lucky here, we get letters home every week about nits in the class and loads of the other parents have said their kids have got nits again.

Mine have never had them. So we are either the people spreading them around or we have some natural nit immunity

Thanks onebatmother

Really that much WorkingItOutAsIGo! I have washed thing but not sealed them all away for 3 weeks. I thought that the washing would kill them all. My washing machine is broken at the moment and I am having to take everything to my Mums, also they can't go a day without hats, coats etc in this weather, so I will have to wait a bit before waging war on all their clothes and belongings. Thanks for the advice though I will do it as soon as I can. Does everything have to come out of circulation for 3 weeks or just the duvet and pillow?

mii, I think some people do seem to have some sort of nit immunity. We also have a 17 year old foster daughter and the boys are always climbing on her/cuddleing her and she does placement every other week at the local preschool and yet she has not caught them through all of this, where as DH has been rarley at home over the last few months yet he has caught them. We all use the same tea tree shampoo and conditioner the same stuff to wash our clothes etc. yet for some reason they do not take up living in DFD's hair. Maybe I should star spraying the boys with her perfume!

at posh nits, maybe if they asked politely if they could stay I wouldn't mind so much but unfortunatley our nits are deffinately the rude type and so out with them I say .

Does anyones school in the UK have a stricter poilicy re nits? i.e. can it be done or are their hands tied in what they are allowed to do?

Bloody nits.

I heard, last week, that mayonnaise does the trick. Smother head, sleep in shower cap, wash out and comb through the next day.

Are they winding me up or has anyone tried it? Because I've tried everything else and still plagued by the little bastards...

I looked on the threads about how to get rid of them and there was the same thing said but with any type of oil, so I guess the mayo is used as it is oily. It was also done with vodka and gin!

There seems to be loads of ways of getting rid but not much advice about keeping them away.

Do they share hats at school, DD's class has a box of hats for children to wear if it is cold, can't think that would be fab if lots of the children have nits

Plus I tie her hair back v tight into buns so no hair flying around

Mii, Not that I know of in terms of winter hats, but I guess they do have dress up stuff .

We have nits almost constantly I do every other day with the Nitty gritty comb with leave- in conditioner. I have cut DD1's hair to above her shoulders but I wish I could just shave it all off!

i hate nits!they love ds1!

we comb every 3rd day.can i ask though(as in i must be doing something wrong because they keep coming back)should i be washing all the bedding,coats etc as my mum keeps telling me i should every 3rd day?my reasoning not to is that they can only live on hair.so surely cant live on coats,bedding etc.am i really wrong and a bad parent?

I think the thing is that lice can fall off the hair and end up in all sorts of other places, and eggs can too, and then if they hatch then you are back where you started.

So just combing the hair out is not enough - at the same time you need to wash everything the hair could have come into contact with, and anything you can't wash you need to bag up for three weeks. I guess in that time any eggs hatch and the lice die as they have no nourishment. Basically if you don't do that all your combing efforts can be in vain and your newly clean hair can be infected again.

As I write my daughter's duvet and pillow are sitting in a tied up dustbin sack in her bedroom, with a large sign on it saying 'Don't throw away'!

I am really confused with the bedding, hats etc. I have automatically washed beding once nits gone but never hats coats etc (as washing coat leaves it none waterproof!). I thought they could not live anywhere else but a lot of comments on MN say about washing everything to catch eggs, so I thought ok I will do, that but then when I told my Mum she said no it is a myth re bedding hat etc. Now I just don't know .

welllll I have to say we never had nits when we were kids but my mum was v strict with making us tie hair back tight in plaits/buns and not ever sharing hairbrushes/hats with other children

but I think we may just have some immune type gene or something

DS1 at private school and when I was doing my precautionary comb through at bathtime noticed he'd got a few nits.

He'd been clear for 6 weeks - back at school a couple of days and here we are again.

I'm not sure about the washing everything they've come into contact with - how long can they live when not on a head? I didn't think it was very long at all.