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On the nasty subject of nits ...............................................

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mosschops30 · 26/03/2007 16:16

Does just combing through with conditioner really work?

found that dd was crawling on the weekend so combed through with conditioner on saturday morning, then treated with lyclear saturday night, then combed through again last night.

Now I find that I have them which means dd probably has them back, and the treatments are very expensive and not great for you.

Justr wondered what the current trend was with these things

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Blandmum · 26/03/2007 16:18

yes.

But you have to do it every 2-3 days for 14 days in total, until you have cleared all the lice.

Every time you comb them the lice should get smaller and smaller. If you suddently get another big one, it means the person has been re-infested, and you have to start from scratch (no pun intended)

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mosschops30 · 26/03/2007 16:21

mb love the pun
can I use the same nit comb for each person or do we need new ones for each comb through for each person?

and does it matter whcih conditioner we use

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Notquitegrownup · 26/03/2007 16:22

Yep - echoing MB. We cleared them off by weeks and weeks of conditioner plus combing. (Apparently the conditioner makes the hair sticky, so that they can't hang on!)

Once you have developed a technique which avoids getting water in the eyes, we all found this process strangely satisfying. Much less smelly and cheaper than conditioner, and actually they haven't come back since.

clayre · 26/03/2007 16:25

i don't know about the current trends for getting rid of them but in scotland we get the headlice treatment free from the chemist under Direct Care, dd hasn't had them yet but they doing the rounds in the nursery so i'm watching the threads on here for info.

Blandmum · 26/03/2007 16:28

buy a big bottle of cheap conditioner. Some say that teatree helps to deter the lice, but I have never seen any trials of this.

Headrin smothers the lice, but from what people have said on MN you need a lot and it is quite expensive. But at least it isn't an insectacide. I'm not the 'greenest' person in MN, but even I don't like to think about putting insectacide on my kids heads!

As an interesting aside, lice fart their way out of the egg sac. Female lice sometimes cement themselves to the scalp while they are laying eggs. Good, I hate the little bastards!

TinyGang · 26/03/2007 16:29

Once they've gone though there is no rest.

I started this thread the other day.

Good luck. They're 'orrible little blighters.

Spidermama · 26/03/2007 16:30

Hedrin is fab.
It's supposed to be non toxic too.
Just comb it through. At first it looks nasty and oily but eventually, after several hours, it evapourates. The lice really do all die.

Repeat in 7 days to get any hatchlings and you're sorted.

Trust me I'm an extremely experience louse hunter.

You can get in on prescription too.

LieselVentouse · 26/03/2007 16:48

I found a really good way - dont ask me how I found this out - cover their hair in mayonaise and then wrap in cling film - leave on for an hour then comb through and wash out

Notquitegrownup · 26/03/2007 17:05

LOL Liesel. You can't not explain that!

nikkie · 26/03/2007 20:14

You can get headlice stuff on perscription if you don't want to pay!

Grapefruit shampo/conditioner is supposed to be good too.

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mosschops30 · 27/03/2007 14:29

would you believe I have just phoned the dr to ask for a prescription for headrin (sp) so that I dont waste an appointment, and they asked me to do the following:

write down the names, ages and date of birth of each person to be treated on separate cards, then find a louse in each persons head and sellotape it to the card and then take it down the surgery

WTF!!!!! I will bloody go and pay for it instead of all of that mallarky, obviously deemed to weed out the people who would like it on prescription (ie would rather not pay) and those who absolutely have to have it on prescription.

Anyone would think I was after a years supply of morphine

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Hathor · 27/03/2007 14:35

LOL @ sellotape them!!!!!
Making me scratch now.

Notquitegrownup · 27/03/2007 14:37

Lol at this Mosschops!

Buy a bottle of the stuff, but look on the bright side. When you are combing them out, if you find some, then you can do the sellotape thingie then. That will give you a spare bottle for next time.

earlgrey · 27/03/2007 14:40

and [draw dropping emoticion] WTF??? Why on earth would you want it if you didn't have to treat the little bleeders? Besides, if you wanted a shedload of the stuff that badly you need only one head with lice on it - hl aren't going to own up and say "actually I came from X's head, not Y's". What planet are they on?

I'm going to 'phone our surgery once they open and see what they say. Took me 2 weeks to eradicate them from dd2's hair and now I've noticed eggs (but no live ones yet) on dd2's hair.

ComeOVeneer · 27/03/2007 14:43

Does anyone know if dry combing is effective? DS won't co-operate in the bath or out of it whilst I treat DD's hair and as dh is only home at the weekends in time to help out inthe evening I am struggling to do it every 2 days.

Boco · 27/03/2007 14:47

Dry combing doesn't work - they can cling on to the hair! Bastards.

My friend said she combed several lice from her daughters hair, wiped them onto a reusable nappy, boil washed the nappies, hung them out over night in a frost - and the next day as she was getting the washing it....she saw one, and it was still moving! Aaaarrrggghhh.

I always use a nitty gritty comb with my dd when i comb her hair, and last time, i didnt' find any lice, but lots and lots of these weird things - smaller than nits, brown, with a kind of prong sticking out - what could that be???? No legs or anything, just a brown case with prong. I'm seriously obsessive as i have long thick wavy hair and treating it is a nightmare.

earlgrey · 27/03/2007 15:19

Well, GP just phoned me back, and the only debate was whether I needed 150 or 300 ml! Where abouts in the country are you, mosschops? The more I think about it the more bizzare, no, stupid it sounds.

marketing Hedrin on the black market!!!

earlgrey · 27/03/2007 15:21

Eggs, Boco. Tho' I haven't yet worked out whether what you describe are the vacated ones or the still-to-fart ones.

Boco · 27/03/2007 15:26

but the eggs are white, these are brown, and what's with the wierd prong? maybe they're the post farted then - but found no nits!

Mumpbump · 27/03/2007 15:34

Dead eggs are brown, I believe...

earlgrey · 27/03/2007 15:48

dd2's are brown, too. I think the prong thing is a bit of cement left over from the parent attaching the egg to the hair shaft - like grouting gone wrong.

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mosschops30 · 27/03/2007 15:57

earlgrey I am in cardiff. I'm just peed off that I now have to spend £20 or so buying it for us all. Its not like I'm at the surgery every week begging for stuff.

Its starting to get on my nerves now the more I think about it.

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Mhamai · 27/03/2007 16:03

Sorry nothing to add per say but did misread thread title and thought it read, On the nasty subject of tits!

nikkie · 27/03/2007 17:55

we have to ask 3 days in advance for perscription so I get some when I run out soI have it for next time.

earlgrey · 27/03/2007 18:32

I'd write a letter to the Practice Manage explaining just how daft their stupid rule is .... FGS you've got years of this to come.