Head lice help!!!

[MarshmallowX1983]

Help me please! We noticed DD had headlice on Sunday, treated the whole house with Full Marks and went through and combed them out with the comb provided. On Monday my husband insisted on doing another treatment, this time Lyclear, but he didn’t do it properly (he wet the hair first rather than put it on dry hair).

Ordered a Nitty Gritty in the meantime and went through her hair with it one day later on the Tuesday, this time just using conditioner. Still full of them.

A pretty thorough check yesterday (Weds) showed no lice and I thought we might be in the clear, but this evening I spotted another egg and then I pulled another live one out from her dry hair using the Nitty Gritty. My Mum is now combing through again as I’m starting to lose the will.

My question is - should we now do another treatment of Full Marks or Lyclear? Or wait till 7 days as the box says? I’m desperate to get rid of these things!!!

Use Hedrin. The one you leave on for 8 hours. Comb through whilst it's on and then repeat in 7 days

When DS got them I combed his hair with the nitty gritty using conditioner for a week then a couple of random times the next week. I don't think I needed to do it so often but I was a bit paranoid about missing some. That got rid of them, I didn't use any of the treatments since the school said they didn't work as well as the nitty gritty.

Malt vinegar is the best thing to get rid of head lice. I was told this by a pharmacist when I was buying Hedrin.

My kids seemed to have permanent head lice when they were younger thanks to kids who were never treated...I tried every treatment going, but to me Nitwits is the best. Its not cheap but it kills both lice and eggs, some only kill the lice so if you miss just one egg you're back to square one again.

Even the smothering treatments are shite and don’t work properly, I’ve been battling the fuckers for 6 weeks now (3DDs with long thick hair plus myself!). Nitty Gritty comb, loads of conditioner, comb every 2nd day. It’s drained me but the last few times there have only been tiny lice, no adults and a few eggs.

We don’t use anything. I just comb everyone’s hair with the nit comb every day until we are clear for 2 weeks, then once a week I do the kids hair. Just soak the hair in conditioner and comb it through again after washing it off.

Wash hair. Put conditioner in. Separate into sections and comb each section through with the nitty gritty comb. Rinse out conditioner when done.
Do this daily until you don't find anything and then once a week.

You need to do the treatment twice as per instructions. First treatment doesn’t kill the eggs (unless nitwits, although this didn’t work for us). . You wait a few days for them to hatch … the second treatment is timed to kill the newly hatched ones before they start laying eggs themselves.

Between treatments you will still see eggs and some lice.

The best thing to do is just to comb hair every night. It is really draining but it's the best way.
Put their awful videos on YouTube so they sit still and pour yourself a glass of something

I used to pull the eggs out with my fingernails (and then scrub under my nails)! The eggs are so embedded to the hair you need to pull them out manually because even a comb can't tug them out.

Just think, one day you might look back fondly at the nit days and enjoy the quality time you spent together

Thanks guys. Seems like I’m doing the right thing. I just genuinely didn’t realise that it’s a process that takes 1+ weeks and naively thought it would be dealt with in one treatment (that season 3 episode of Motherland was misleading!)

Another question - I have been obsessively washing pillow cases (and initially the entire bedding of everyone in the household), and every item of clothing she has worn, is that going too far? It makes me feel better but all the extra laundry in itself is starting to get really draining given it’s been 5 days now.

You don’t need to wash pillowcases etc, lice can’t survive on anything other than humans.

Oh, and the last time my DDs had lice, around 7 years ago, it was just one treatment, comb the fuckers out, done.

It’s not been the same for me this time Despite doing exactly what it says on the instructions for the Hedrin and Lyclear.