Sorry-boring nits question, help needed please[grin]

[jollymum]

Ok, found one huge nit wriggling in Ds hair. No others, combed through loads but lots of eggs {?} stuck to hair shaft. Obviously he's got this nit from someone at school and it's been laying eggs for England. Do I treat him with the "stuff" or what, loads of black poo there too. It's really hard to pull the eggs out between your nails and frankly, I don't have the time or inclination {'cos I'm poorly, not a crap mum!}

Any suggestions, please . He was due to have a haircut today as well

Get a nit comb. and look at nitty gritty

Oh yes the lovely nits! I would treat with the stuff and comb and comb and comb........ Hard work but the alternative is worse.

Not the best task for when you're not feeling well [sympathetic smile]

we had a nightmare with nits and dd. She has very fine hair and the nit comb didn't really work. In the end we bought an electric nit comb and used a combination of aromatherapy oils which my sil made up. It had tea tree and sage in it. Its smelt much better than derbac too.

Even if you treat with chemicals, you will still have to get the eggs out. Get someone else to do it if you're not feeling well. It is a rotten thing to happen. Sorry to say but check your own hair and others in the family too, there may have been more lice to start with...

shave his hair off. no hair means no place for anything to live in. and he can wear a trendy baseball cap to school. the kids will all think he is the coolest

we have constant problems with nits, which the children pick up at school (Grrrrr..) but have found the various lotions to be unreliable.

The best method is to dampen the hair and slap on loads of cheap conditioner and then just comb and comb and comb

If you do this every three days, you will break the cycle.

A pharmacist told me that on the first comb-through you will remove all the live ones and a few of the eggs. Then if you do it three days later, some of the remaining eggs will have hatched but the lice won't be mature enough to have stated laying their own eggs, so you wil get rid of them too (plusa few more egg) and so on.

It takes a lot of patience but it did work for us (4 children including two girls with long hair)

They are little shits though (the nits, not my children ) but best of luck

Thanks, but if I use the stuff, will it kill the unbornm nits sitting in the eggs? How on earth do I pull about 30 eggs off the hair shaft. Every time you move, they disappear back into his hair!

the problem with the lotions is that they don't always work and the nits/lice become immune to them.

Even when you do use lotion, they recommened that you comb through afterwards with conditioner and then again 7 days later.

With the conditioner method, I have never had to comb through more than three time (spaced three days apart) with the benefit of having avoided the use of pesticides of my childrens hair