NITS - how can I get rid without using lotions?

[tegan]

My dd1 is suffering terrible since going back to school. I am having to check her every night. How can I get rid of the buggers - she has eczyme and asthma so she can't use the lotions on the market - please help.

The Nitty Gritty Comb, No lotions needed, Just comb through every night untill they are gone. Costs about £10 from chemists.

nit combing every few days. you get a comb at the chemists. but according to all the previous threads on this there's a special "nitty gritty" comb which really works.

we have recently had our first infestation. have to say the nit combing is a pain we have lots of hair between us so it takes ages. but apparently combing is as effective or more than lotions.

i have yet to be convinced, the little b***s keep coming back.

Tea tree oil at the base of the neck, wash hair with tea tree shampoo and conditioner and comb through section by section with nit comb until all the blighters are out, but you need to keep doing it everynight until all the eggs have gone otherwise they will just hatch and reinfest.

I never use lotions just the above seems to work for us

they hate tea tree so wash hair with tea tree products inbetween too

olive oil with a couple of drops of tea tree or lavender oil - but ONLY if she's not likely to react to the oils as they smell quite strong. Leave in for 1/2 hour then use nit comb. failing that just chuck loads of conditioner on her hair and keep combing until all the nits have gone. Usually takes a couple of goes as the really tiny ones slip through the comb so you'll need to redo it - I used to do it every other day for about 4 sessions (DD had very long fine hair & tons of it!!) worked for me! Good luck

Wet comb with any old cheap conditionaer and lots of water. You have to do it every three days for two weeks or until you are clear. The nits will hatch but the child can't pass them on as the are too small. The lice should get smaller and smaller with each combing. If you get another big one you have possibly been re infested

i use tea tree conditioner and a leave-in spray. and nitcomb every day.

When I was teaching infants I used to get nits all the time. I hated the chemicals, as they made my eyes sting and my chest tight, so I resorted to conditioner wet combing. Did it every time I washed my hair, and sometimes on dry hair (though it is well conditioned and straight so didn't hurt or cause too much damage - I'm sure it's not recommneded by hairdressers!). Always did it over the edge of the bath, or white paper, or white bed sheet (when dry combing) so I could see exactly what was coming out. I used to get tiny tiny ones that way, and I did always get rid of them in the end.Used a metal comb, not the plastic ones.

Labourious, pain in the butt, but it works, and I always got rid of them. I'm not sure how this would be doing it on a child, rather than yourself, so sorry if inappropriate.

Parents used to swear by the electrical zapper combs - didn't ever use one myself, but others may have experience of these....

Remember that the lifecycle is about 3-4 weeks from one big 'un laying eggs, to eggs hatching amd growing big enough to lay eggs themselves, so you do have to keep going for a while once infected....Miss one tiny one that's just hatched and in 2-3 weeks you are crawling again.

You have my sympathies HTH

I bought one of the battery zapper things but every time I killed a nit I gave my dd an electric shock so we don't use that method anymore