£100 to get rid of my family's supernits {shock]

[lavenderkate]

£12 a bottle of Hedrin x5 people (make it 4, we'll share)

Then repeat in 7 days.

Holy cow thats almost £100.

and yes before you ask i am an expert in delousing in the ususal manner with great success.
Had nits here countless times in the past but these are mahoosive and refusing to die.

Anyone any better ideas please?

thats supposed to be !

In fact, by now I am bloody well

I can do me and the kids with one bottle of Hedrin and dd has v curly thick hair and needs most of the Hedrin, I have long hair and ds has well boy's hair. So you won't need 4 bottles I imagine.

If they are mahoosive - will a nittygritty comb not shift them?

Our pharmacy has a minor ailments service - we got Hedrin for free for both children - 4 small bottles, totalling £16.

Alternatively the Dr will "prescribe" something, and if its for children, its again FOC.

wow, never heard the the minor ailments thing,

can I ask whats covered under it? cough medicin? calpol?

Go see GP and get it on prescription, you will still have to pay £7.20 for you and DH but cheaper than £100.

In the meantime use the combing/conditioner treatment.

You don't need a whole bottle per person per treatment. You only need to spray on enough so that the hair is completely coated when you comb it through. I did a family of 4 with a bottle and a bit (and I had to do 3 treatments because we couldn't do it 7 days apart so we had to do it 5 day and then another 5 days).

It works like a dream, the bastards died. [evil grin]

it's such a waste of gp's time (something like nits)

it's no wonder I can never get an appointment!

Each bottle does 2 people twice - so it's £24. I can't work out how you got to £100.

yes, true tree.

Alternatively, just shave everyone's hair off.

Actually, I did a family of 3. I remember now that it was before we got DD that we had the nit outbreak.

hedrin's complete waste of money. must have taken me £100s to realise that (following advice on here ). doesn't bloody well work or no better than smothering yr head with any other (cheaper) such substance conditioner/baby oil etc.
Don't bother with it!

Pop in your local pharmacy and ask if they do it. Our pharmacy had been running the scheme since April, but no-one knew.

As for wasting the GP's time, I mentioned it when we were in there for something else, and he prescribed it. Then it was just a question of requesting repeat prescriptions.

I'm back, sitting in shower cap with hedrin allover hair and scalp.
have saved a bit for ds but would certainly not cover the other 2 long haired dcs.

minor ailments scheme ?

Fantastic will go tomorrow for everyone else's.

Bran- try telling dd13yrs that we are about to shave her long hair off

Thanks for the advice.