Head lice prevention tips please

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I'm experienced in getting rid of the little blighters, but my dd keeps getting reinfected as soon as she goes back to school it's very wearing .

Her hair is long so I put it in plaits every day for school, what else really works? we've tried coconut conditioner spray and tea tree oil sprays to no avail.

Please, I know you're all probably as bored of it as me

coat entire head in vaseline?

I don't know how it's done in the UK, but at schools over here childrens' coats (etc.) are kept in bags or covered by a special capes on the coat pegs, rather than hung up 'loose' like they used to be when I was a child.

Nits do seem to be less common here than they were when I was at primary in the UK.

Here's your typical row of coat pegs at a school, these are the capes.

Oh come on, someone must have a fabulous routine that works for them? Please

nitty gritty do a preventative spray (natural stuff I believe). Don't know if it works.

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Keep your child locked up away from all other human heads?

Plastic bag over their head?

Shave all their hair off?

Tea tree oil leave in conditioner. Spray onto hair and comb through. Nits dont like it apparently.

www.auravita.com/product/Vosene-Kids-3in1-Headlice-Shampoo-Conditioner.NETW11593.html?RefId=220&adid =NETW11593
Seems to work.

I think having shorter hair helps but I guess just because preventative conditioner and combing is so much less hassle.

they hate hair gel. If you rub in gel each morning that'll keep them at bay.

Mine aren't allowed gel in hair so I have sprayed them with hair spray.

MadameMoe I'm facinated by these capes...are they to stop nits?

Which country has these capes?

(Have name changed...)

Yes they're to stop nits, should have said that more explicitly really . The children aren't expected to wear them (should have mentioned that too), they stop the little blighters transferring between childrens' coats when they're hung up together on the pegs. They really do seem to work from what I've heard.

It's in the Netherlands that I've seen them used but they may well be used in other countries too. Coat peg nit protection (either the capes or the bags) seem to be standard issue in primary schools here.

'tis the logical solution really.

Might be coincidence, but we hardly get headlice any more (last 2 years, touch wood) since DD uses a tea tree oil conditioner as detangler. It's a rather cheap conditioner that we buy in local drugstore, too.

Well, it's only since I stopped sraying the pillows with diluted lavender oil that DS has had nits.