Nits!!!!!

[DomesticG0ddess]

Just washed and dried DS' hair and he has nits!!!! There was a sign at preschool last week. And my head has been really itchy too (had put it down to pg reaction to shampoo as have itchy skin in places too). So gutted as had managed to get hair app for tomorrow before my holiday, the only time I can go. Obviously can not go to hairdressers with nits!

So, what product should I use? Thanks.

Bane of my bloody life. I use a Nitty Gritty comb, conditioner and tee tree oil.

Agree, nit comb, conditioner, comb every night. No need for horrid chemical products.

It's not that bad, it just happens.

So no special product? And is it right I have to comb all the eggs out - they won't wash out? So will DH have to do mine? And I thought all the romance was gone out of our marriage.

Hedrin nukes the buggers quickly

I used Full Marks, it did the job and only required one treatment.

Of fabulous. Just get conditioner and a nit comb and carefully scrape through all the hair, go through section by section. I always used to put DC in front of a DVD.

It happens, do it today then tomorrow then again in a few days.

Do yourself too!

According to some brute on another thread, you can use hair straightners to kill them all and then just comb the little buggers out using conditioner.

Bizarrely (sp?), I'm looking forward to trying this method!

Thanks everyone, have spent the last hour combing through my hair, lots of tiny things, but only 6 big ones and now nothing coming off. If I do it again in the morning do you think I can go and get my hair done???

I think for DS I will have to go and get Hedrin or something else that is a non-insecticide one because he is v touchy about me touching/combing his hair! Will maybe have a go first thing. What about going to preschool? I mean he picked it up from there in the first place, but should he go?

LostArt, that sounds interesting, but not sure how that works cos the lice are actually on the scalp?!

Also, forgot to add, head no longer itching which is nice after a few days of it - I thought I was allergic to Pantene and was going to use it as an excuse to buy myself some expensive Weleda natural shampoo!

Funnily enough, I did the kids tonight because my head is itchy, but I've seen no lice or anything. I'm not sure if I have dandruff or nits. I need to do my own but I have such thick hair it's going to take hours

Is there any way of knowing decisively if I have them or not. I can't find anything but I don't know exactly what I'm looking for.

Domestic I did wonder if a burnt scalp was too high a price to pay!

whomoved I'm not sure what I'm looking for either. DD has come home from school with serveral 'nit notices', but I've never seen anything in her hair. I'm hoping she is immune.

Well I've just done mine and discovered.....dandruff but no critters or eggs (hurrah!)

Have doused it in tea tree oil just in case. Didn't see anything in the kid's hair either but am still itchy. I think I've probably just got head lice on the brain (better than the scalp methinks ).

whomoved, just so you know, the casings (known as "nits") from when a louse has hatched can look like dandruff.... but if you didn't find anything else in that time then I am sure it is fine.

Also from the Bupa website: "It's also possible to develop 'louse phobia', where people feel they have an infestation because they know of others who have been affected." Perhaps you have this ?

btw, how do you cover your hair in tea tree, do you put it in something first or just add drops to your scalp and massage around?

If you com thoroughly tonight and tomorrow morning with a nitty gritty comb, you can still go to the hairdressers tomorrow.

I put it in a spray bottle with water, shook it and then sprayed it in, then combed in through. I smell like an Ozzie hospital though

I took the bits of dandruff out of the pyrex bowl I rinsed the nitty gritty in and examined them under DD's microscope and they deffo were not egg shells, they were definitely skin flakes. Completely flat and scored like skin cells.

Hedrin, washed out with tee tree shampoo. Nitty Gritty solution didn't work for us but the comb is great.

Well, got my highlights done!! And am just hoping that as she didn't mention nits, that there weren't any! Combed all through DS's this morning - he had loads poor little thing - but have also bought some stuff to be sure. Though if he keeps getting them he will have to get used to the combing because it is going to get expensive! (and I need the money for my highlights .