Headlice

[weaningwoe]

What’s the best treatment?

Conditoner and combing every 2/3 days here, nearly at the end

vigilant(e) combing and smothering in oil or conditioner.

I have a Merck manual - if they could sell you a drug they would - and it states that eradicating nits/lice is down to 'manual' treatment. That means combing, combing combing.

The treatments themselves admit that the little evils can become resistant to the chemicals but good old fashioned suffocating in oil and rigorous combing will clear them.

Sorry you're stuck with this over Easter. It's a pain.

The comb has to be a nitty gritty. The others are too gappy

Agree with combing being the best way. Nitty gritty comb and lots of conditioner. My dd is now rid of them but I now comb her hair once a week with the comb and conditioner to keep a check. She's not had them in quite a while and I've been using a teatree spray when I do her hair each morning. Could be coincidence but I'm gonna keep using it. The chemical products only kill.live lice so I don't trust them as the eggs that have been laid could hatch at different times and you're still left with the empty eggs anyway. Combing really is the best way. Every other day until comb runs clean through all the hair

I thought that would be unanimous.

My SDC went back to their Mum Wednesday and she’s phoned tonight to say they were crawling and she treated them last night. I didn’t see anything Monday Evening in the bath - can so many hatch so quickly? Feel very guilty for potentially not noticing.

I’ll order a nitty gritty. Second lot of lice this year.