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Has anyone tried Hedrin?

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FrannyandZooey · 04/08/2006 19:06

Does it work? Is it a one dose thing? How much does it cost? Does it really have no side effects (even tiny little ones that organic lentil weavers would object to)

I don't think I have lice atm, but I did find one egg in ds's hair yesterday and my hair is so long and thick it is totally depressing to be nit combing it "just in case". If this stuff works, is safe, and not too pricey, I might just bung it on every time there is a possibility we might have lice. What do you reckon?

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spangles · 04/08/2006 21:47

LOL Franny

SpaceCadet · 04/08/2006 21:47

franny, no delacet is not a pesticide, i wont put pesticides on my childrens hair, its tincture of larkspur, tea tree, lavender and vinegar, the vinegar being the all important ingredient i think. when i washed the dcs hair, the dead lice were dropping out and it kills the eggs too.

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FrannyandZooey · 04/08/2006 21:50

You know Spacey I was thinking of an insecticide, sorry. I guess it must be an insecticide if it kills lice, though? And vinegar doesn't kill lice, surely, or we would all just be using that and saving our money?

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juuule · 04/08/2006 21:53

We have used Delacet and..........it worked. Think it's great. As SpaceCadet said the dead lice just drop out in the rinse.

SpaceCadet · 04/08/2006 21:55

the normal head lice lotions contain a form of insecticide/pesticide. i cant remember the exact ingredients of the delacet but it is not a pesticide or an insecticide, the vinegar, loosens and neutralises the eggs, preventing them from hatching.

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FrannyandZooey · 04/08/2006 21:57

Yeah, but...

insecticide means "something that kills insects"

what's in the delacet that kills the lice if it isn't an insecticide?

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SpaceCadet · 04/08/2006 21:58

info about delacet

SpaceCadet · 04/08/2006 21:59

well lets for arguments sake say..its not a chemical insecticide, but a herbal one.

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FrannyandZooey · 04/08/2006 22:00

when people say "let's for arguments sake say that"

I know I am being a PITA

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SpaceCadet · 04/08/2006 22:03

read the link franny!!!
its 100%natural, no chemicals, pesticides, insecticides of a chemical nature, not a jot, not tested on animals either.

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FrannyandZooey · 04/08/2006 22:05

I don't think these things from the Delacet website are true:

"For the infestation to stop, all head lice and eggs (nits)must be killed at the same time."

"Nit combing with conditioner is purely a cosmetic procedure where live lice, which are tangled up in a conditioner or shampoo are manually removed."

"Head lice can survive outside a human body for up to 48 hours and no prolonged contact is necessary to get infested"

I do agree with this though:

"Prolonged nit combing damages hair and roots. It may lead to irritated and broken skin, secondary scalp infection and dandruff." Nit combing ruins my hair and damages my scalp quite badly I am definitely intrigued by the Delacet SpaceCadet, thanks for telling us about it.

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SpaceCadet · 04/08/2006 22:09

the only one i dont beleive is the one about lice surviving for up to 48 hours, with no blood to suck they cant possibly...however, have ejected a louse from my daughters hair before which we kept(sickos) and it was still wriggling around several hours later.
it was dead the nest day though.
nit combing cant be good for your hair, my dd had a really badly irritated scalp from nit combing.
i tried the delacet when all else had failed and couldnt beleive it when it worked.

cat64 · 04/08/2006 22:21

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JennT · 04/08/2006 22:42

Have heard (but never tried) Neem oil works as a herbal insecticide. In fact never tried any.....

matnanplus · 05/08/2006 09:48

Delacet looks really good.

I agree the endless combing is a pain and bore to the recipient and an armache and bore to the comber.

Just keeping a towel on a likklehead for several hours, me feels the need for some of those nifty towel turbans.

As a repellent we have sprayed tea tree oil in water on the hair before school daily and have seen less infestations, the lice don't like tea tree it seems.

Thanks for the link Spacecadet.

pecka · 08/08/2006 10:20

Can anyone tell me how much you get in a bottle of hedrin?

Need to do my DD with shoulder length hair (shes 6) and want enough to do short haired DS if necessary too. Is 1 bottle enough?

isabellammm · 15/08/2006 16:32

Hedrin is great! Really easy to use, no chemicals (it works with silicon which coats the hair and 'shrink-wraps' the nits, so they drown) It is odourless, takes about 2 mins to apply and no combing needed - fantastic! You wash it off in the morning by which time the nits are dead - you can see them on the pillow if you really want! You MUST do it 7 days later as it doesn't kill the eggs which may hatch in the meantime. Tip: get it on prescription as there is not enough for the whole family in 1 bottle (I definitely recommend everyone doing it if you want to get rid of nits completely) It costs £13 but worth every penny if you do buy it...

southeastastra · 20/08/2006 17:33

after a week combing, after first using full marks mousse, i am now going to try hedrin and a nitty gritty comb. my ds(5) has been through it with me combing this week and i still seem to be missing one or two. is anyone else out there finding this to be a big problem that doesn't seem to shift at the moment.

my son can't stand much more of this, but i comb for ages and the next day still find one or two i've missed. i'm going nit mad

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mamanopapa · 26/09/2008 09:29

I have tried hedrin on both of my girls last year, and had to wait around for hours on end. Last week there was another outbreak at the school and one of Chloe's friends mums told us to buy full marks solution, it was brilliant, it only took 10 minutes and you get a little comb for free to get rid of the dead critters. Has anyone else used it?

mammya · 26/09/2008 09:37

Hedrin is great! It is the only thing that got rid of my dd's infestation. Of course combing with a nitty gritty comb works too but you have to do that every 2-3 days for a couple of weeks, and because my dd has lots of very curly hair it takes ages every time. As I work full time I could never do it often enough. I didn't want to use heavy duty pesticides on my PFB's darling head. Two treatments with hedrin at a week's interval did the trick.

Why did you have to wait around for hours mamanopapa? I just put it on in the evening and wash the hair next morning. No waiting involved!

OrmIrian · 26/09/2008 09:39

It works brilliantly! You see lots of their little dead bodies all over the pillow the next morning! Very satisifying . And they advise you to use it a week later to kill any that have hatched since. It doesn't kill the egds (but I've yet to find any chemical treatment that actually states it 'kill' eggs - they usually say they 'eliminate' them and I guess that happens when you comb afterwards ).

But...I have had reinfestations after using it and I suspect that it wouldn't do any harm to comb through a few times with conitioner between treatments just to be on the safe side.

I think that it's quite safe in the lentil-weaver stakes

OrmIrian · 26/09/2008 09:44

It needs to be on overnight btw.

A large bottle does about 3 - 4 heads of hair - DD and DS#1 have shoulderlength hair, DS#2 and I have shorter hair.

Boots had a special offer recently - don't know if it's still on. And it's worth trawling the internet for offers - it's not cheap!

MrsRecycle · 26/09/2008 09:45

Seemed to be the only thing that works for us. For years have used conditioner and comb treatment, so thought I'd give it go and was really easy to use. Two lots of it seem to get rid of eggs. We've been nit free for 3 months now.

seeker · 26/09/2008 09:47

Bedrin is fab. But WHY is is so incredibly expensive? It takes a bottle and a half to do the four of us - two long haired, one medium and one short.

But nothing kills the eggs - you either have to physically pick them off or nitty gritty comb off the worst of them, or be a slack mum like me and leave them but Hedrin again on a regular basis to get the little sods as they hatch.

It's called throwing money at the problem. Often the only way!