Nits/Headlice (help!)

we had lots of foster kids and they all came with them............the best and cheapest treatment is the comb..........but you have to use it correctly.....get the one for $10 (i think) with the thin wire one not plastic and have a piece of paper......comb hair hit it on to the paper.......just do this morning and night instead of using anything else and disinfectant on everything........we tried everything and found that alot of the ones for younger kids had way too much chemicals in and not even we could stand it in the room let alone the kid with it in there hair.......and then it was back again.........if you do want to use one its in a blue (or pale blue a) and white tube i think it starts with P.......that was the best for the price. how old is the girl? cause if she is over 5 then there isnt any difference in OTC and docs...........actually by the time you pay to see the doc it will be cheaper OTC........hope this helps

Thanks everyone... lol thankfully they already know and are onto it!

omg i loove the moov stuff, eucalyptus is very strong smelling but great. depends on how much $$ they have but then also, how much they don't want them back as sometimes the shampoos etc aren't quite as effective. but them alot of people just use that and don't spend the time to remove all the nasties. Wet-combing is really important, we did this before we treated to get rid of all visable ones, and let the treatment stuff kill anything that was (hopefully not) left over. and re did the combing with each treatment.

we ended up spending about $60 all up because you are supposed to do the treatment again after 7 and 14 days, and the stuff cost $20 a bottle.

Wet-combing works well to, wet the kids hair, I did this with a spray bottle, and use a very fine toothed comb, i pretty much did it strand by strand almost, and you can see where they are and use fingernails to strip the nit off the hair, or like i did, grab the individual hair and pull it out.. i know nasty mum but some would just not come off.

Some places say not to worry about washing bedding and hats etc, but i did, all the bedding and their hats and the clothes they had been wearing too.....

I now check nearly every morning when doing their hair and when i brush at night time too.

lol.. oh, and T, how nice of them to know their child has headlice and not tell you when they leave her with you to babysit.

Edited by mum2paris

You've seen Maya's 'fro, she screamed for the entire hour and a half

I have also been told to use a bottle of cheap conditiioner on the hair (the whole bottle) and then cover the hair with plastic for about an hour and then wash it out then comb. Meant to get rid of them. Haven't had the nits here yet.

I saw a thing on the TV that showed using hair straighteners as a chemical free alternative, it kills the adults and eggs and gets right down to the scalp. would definitely be the route I would take, I hate chemicals.

I think if there are still some live ones you could get them.

Ewwww gross Lou

Ha Ha what a dag you are Lou.I like your attitude!!things like that fascinate me too!!!!!Well much to my horror two weeks ago was bathing my kids and saw somthing dark in my lil boys white blonde hair.and on closer inspection found couple of lice and nit eggs.then on daughter too!!!!yuk.thought my kids would never end up getting them...dumbarse eh!!anyway I freaked out and used neighbours nit comb that night and then next day to chemist I went.our chemist makes up there own solution.basically its meths without the purple.It really did nuke the buggers and we havent seen anything since.My boys school is rampant with nits at the mo.and teachers arent aloud to check for them so basically Caleb could end up catching them again and again because couple parents arent treating there kids.sux.