Head lice treatment.

Lyclear Cream Rinse: 1 Wash hair in normal shampoo and rinse 2 Smother hair in contents of bottle and wait 10 minutes
3 Rinse thoroughly.
The only lice left will be dead‘ns
Job Done (repeat on every other member of the household)

SirChenjin

Forget the treatments, they often don't work - combing small sections of hair using a nit comb and lots of conditioner is the best way of dealing with them. The NHS website recommends 1, 5, 9 and 13 to catch any newly hatched head lice and then checking again that everyone's hair is free of lice on day 17.

Or even baby oil, which is also a good treatment for hair.
Wet the hair, rub in some baby oil, brush through then get that nit comb through it!
Once finished, shampoo as normal.
This is a bit like the hot oil treatments. And you can see more of the little buggers in the oil!
Remember to let the school & other parents know that you have treated the children!

Oh and change pillowcases.

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Wish I knew about conditioner, when my granddaughter was little

Reported knockoutlice.

rubysong

Yes, nit comb and conditioner. I think the Victorians were onto something with their '100 brush strokes every night'. A teacher friend used to say, "If you break their legs they can't lay eggs." (That was the legs of the lice, not the children.)

That made me giggle!

I remember the Lorexane lotion, which had to be left on for about two days, and I even remember my granny dousing my hair in paraffin.
I always thought the ‘nits’ were the eggs, and the beasties were called lice.

First wash the hair.

Comb through conditioner and use a nit comb .

Rinse off .

Slightly towel dry .

Mix in a few drops of tea tree oil plus
lavender oil in a leave in condioner and apply generously .

Read the post bymokrena THIS POST WAS STARTED IN 2019

What does it matter if it’s an old thread? My Gdcs are currently being treated for nits, and I picked up a few while they were staying last week, so I’m interested to read of any treatments. We’ve gone for conditioner and nit comb so far.

My daughter in law got rid of head lice in her children by a combination of fine tooth combing with the help of conditioner, and tea tree shampoo. She had to persevere of course as the eggs(nits) hatch out into beasts and so it takes a little time to comb these out too.

You will find the eggs (nits) mostly behind the ears. These can be removed manually with cotton wool saturated with vinegar. You slide the cotton wool and vinegar down the hair shaft and the vinegar dissolves the glue that sticks the eggs to the hair so they slide off easily.

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Agreeing with all those that talk about the conditioner method. It's years since I had to do this for one of my sons, but plastering with conditioner, leaving for a while, I guess to suffocate the lice, then combing through with a fine nit comb worked so well. Less chemicals involved too