Flaming Nits!

[Muddays]

Aaaargh! Please can anyone tell me the best way to get rid of this head lice scourge.
My kid is one year into primary school and has finally, apparently inevitably, invited these new unwanted friends into our lives.
We share a hairbrush so I now have them which is why I'm awake right now. Will vinegar work as a temporary solution?
Obviously I will peg it to the pharmacy as soon as it opens!

Conditioner and a nitty gritty comb/ full marks. You need to comb and treat every 4 days for 3 weeks in my experience. Good luck!

Nitty gritty comb, a bottle of cheap conditioner and a roll of kitchen paper. Soak the hair, smother it in conditioner and comb. Herring also works.

We are also infested. In the past only vamousse has worked for us (very thick bushy hair) But I can't get it anywhere. Has anyone found another chemical solutions that works?

Hedrin works.

Nit comb is the only effective way to get rid of them. Safest too.

I’m that desperate after three months of non-stop nits that I would have doused DD2’s hair in stinky tinned fish!

You'd think there would be an effective treatment that didn't need the incessant combing. Back when we were kids they just treated them with chemicals and killed them, yes there was some combing too but it wasn't quite like this. I know they developed resistance but you'd think modern science could come up with something better. They are a total nightmare and you have my sympathy op! For what it's worth, I find nitwits, which you can buy on amazon, to be one of the better treatments these days.

Herring 😂😂😂😂 i didn't notice the autocorrect

I don't blame you @EmmatheStageRat!

The best I found for dd1 who had waist length thick curly hair as mouth wash- listerine I think it was called.
Pour it all over the hair. Because it's as thin as water it soaks in quickly. Then put the hair under a shower cap and leave for 15 minutes. Then wash off as normal. The nits float off!

You have to repeat it as it doesn't kill the eggs but it's pretty painless and much cheaper than the chemical solutions as a bonus!

I've tried all of the not treatments and Nitwits was the one that finally ended it for us. We had them on and off for a couple of years, it was awful. We treated and combed on repeat but we just couldn't get rid. Either we didn't manage to get the eggs, or another child was reinfecting is.

Since then we've been using the Vosene nit repelling shampoo and we've never had them since.

I hope you are feeling better Muddays. Have managed to treat me and my son with full marks this afternoon, will repeat that in 7 days but might try some nitwits too after that. I just know if its a case of combing them all out I am not going to manage it.