I CANNOT get rid of nits!

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So - two DSs at school. For the last term they have had nits every week at least (I suspect they have never gone). I treat them with shampoo every week and comb them. I have just got a nitty gritty comb too.

We went on holiday for two weeks and I took the nit shampoo with me and they still have them. I have used headrin, lyclear and full marks.

I am also treating myself. I am totally at a loss. HELP!!!!

We used to live in Canada and over there they still have nit checks at school. Kids with eggs or live are sent home and not allowed to return until they are not free (and verified by school to be so)

If that's the way nitty gritty works they need to do something about their advertising! I have found it no more effective than the combs sold with Hedrin etc.
This combing every night with conditioner also isn't really viable for those of us who get home from work after bedtime! As I recall I doused ds with the Hedrin once on two or three consecutive evenings. That did it.

Easier to get rid on boys ....really really short hair (Yes we really did grade one!) Then nights of conditioning and really careful combing
Long hair on your head is way more difficult...you really need someone to help you. Again lots of conditioning and really careful combing
A magnifying light made things easier.
Thankfully we only had them twice!!
Good luck

Lots of girls with long, thick curly hair made nits a nightmare.
Full marks lotion then I sat each in warm bath playing with various toys.
I used shower to wash off lotion and then conditioner by the bottle load and a plastic nit comb. The double sided plastic ones were most effective as teeth were closer together. I then combed in tiny sections until all,hairs was combed. I used clips to keep rest of hair out of the way. It took a while so I topped Bath up,with more warm water. Then when out of bath and wrapped up, we curled up on sofa and I went through hair strand by strand pulling any remaining nits out by sliding them along the hair. I repeated the bath and cuddle nit removal daily for a fortnight. It was onerous and time consuming but it worked.

Sorry to hijack - if you've been combing every couple of days for a week and found nothing, is it ok to stop? This is after using Hedrin once and the follow up a week later.

Yes if nothing found you can stop.
I used to comb mine after school each day, just to make sure, but once a week is ok.
When they have a bath just look at their wet hair, you can soon see if there any of the little buggers.

If you find nothing for a week or two, you can stop the every other day combing but still do it once a week so you get in at the start of an outbreak, not when you are infested!

If all else fails try quassia bark. A handful of the wooden chips in a pan with a pint of water, boil for 10 mins then steep overnight. Strain off the chips, add some essential oils to cover the slightly odd smell then use as a leave in treatment. I also used to spray it on my daughters hair as a deterrent. It works by preventing the lice from feeding. Worked a treat for many years on my daughter with curly waist-length hair. It's much cheaper than commercial treatments, less messy and works just as well.

Following!

Boil wash bedding, wash or vacuum all soft furnishings. Bag up soft toys and leave them in shed for a couple of weeks

No need for this. They don't survive without their host.

My friend with dreads used Quassia Bark, apparently it's very good.

Hedrin leave in lotion. Put plenty on at the temples, back of neck and all edges of the scalp. Do it once, then next day sit at a window, get some hair clips and reading glasses and go through each section of the hair. Pull off any remaining eggs with your fingernails.
Carefully search the hairline at nape and temples for tiny live louse there where it's warm. This process will take about 1-2hrs but it is worth it as you will get rid of them.
In 3 days time, search all the hair again. You will know if there are new eggs as they will be very close to the scalp in batches. This means you need to do the treatment again. I would do the treatment a second time anyway at the 3 or 4 day mark. A week later is too late if you missed some live ones the first time.
Hedrin is not a pesticide, they can't become resistant to it. It works in in a physical way, smothering them, not in a chemical way.

It's got to be easier with boys surely as you can just keep their hair really short? I'm relying on that being the case btw as I just can't be arsed to constantly be dealing with bloody nits.

I find it so much harder with my boys. Shorter hair means combing with the nitty gritty hurts more and it's more difficult to get 'in' properly to the base of the hair without the comb slipping off

*Slather on Cheap tea tree conditioner and comb through. Repeat daily.

Boil wash bedding, wash or vacuum all soft furnishings. Bag up soft toys and leave them in shed for a couple of weeks.*

Totally unnecessary. Lice don't live on beds/toys. Even the NHS website says this is not needed.

You can reduce incidence by the old fashioned idea of 100 brush strokes every day on long hair. The theory is it damages lice and they die before they can lay eggs.

Boots do a tea tree spray. Used to use this every morning and DD always had hair up for school

This makes for interesting reading.. www.headlice.org/news/index-2017.htm

Wash their hair every night without fail. I do with my boys, and despite numerous letters saying nits in class over the years, they've never had them a single time.

At least with boys you don't have to blow-dry, just towel dry thoroughly and comb!

We jad this problem for ages. Eventually I remembered someone told me years before to use something called quasia bark (available in health food shops). It worked and the little nasties stayed away! Take about a handful of the bark & put it in water in a saucepan (about half a small pan), simmer for 15 mins, strain & pour over as a rinse after washing hair. Go through with a comb. I used to put it in a spray bottle & spray it on before school. Nits don't like it.

I have a new tip! Comb the kids hair outside in good light then you can spot every single teeny tiny little egg and pull them out with your fingernails. They are sticky buggers and get through most of the combs. Discovered this while camping this summer that I could see more going on whilst combing my DD in the morning outside the tent. The eggs glint in the sun. Touch wood, she is nit-free now - until next week and school of course.

I would just shave their heads and concentrate on my own hair if you have boys 😳

The only thing that worked for us was using a nitty gritty comb every day plus keeping hair tied back and slathered with Hedrin when visiting the (otherwise lovely) family who had a major problem and thought that mayonnaise would do the trick.

Wash their hair every night without fail. I do with my boys, and despite numerous letters saying nits in class over the years, they've never had them a single time.

Hair washing has no effect whatsoever on nits. They can survive total submersion the fecking bastards

Repeated combing with a nitty gritty and gallons of cheap conditioner every 2-3 days forever at least 3 weeks whereupon they will get reinfected

Neem oil is great!! It stinks, but it's all natural and does the job!! Have a look on Google for suppliers and instructions xxxx

Our proper nit comb was rubbish I used a cheap plastic flea comb and it worked a treat. Also this may just be coincidence but I have always washed the boys hair in Voscene 3 in 1 shampoo, conditioner and tea tree oil as a nit repellent. They are 10 and 7 and we have only had 1 instance of boys in only 1 of the boys and that was after he was literally rubbing heads with an infected child.