GS has visitors in his hair again! best treatment?

nit comb twice a day over a white sink or a sheet so you can see when you are not catching any more beasties. Two weeks should do it.

Slathered in hair conditioner and thorough use of nit comb I'm afraid. Use cheap conditioner and do this very regulary washing hair after treatment.

It's a bloomin' nuisance and rampant, I'm surprised this is only the third time. Good luck.

Must say I have never ever seen a nit/lice...my girls never had it but GS seems to pick it up easily even though his hair is short.. ok thanks all will see if he will sit still long enough lol and catch him before he dashes off out to play.

Would agree with the advice on regular use of a nit comb and lots of hair washing and conditioner. When my GD picked up head lice at school the treatment from the chemist was messy and nowhere near as effective as persistence with a good quality comb.She was clear in about a week.

Biker DD uses a leave in conditioner on the hair and it seems to work quite well, I've not heard her mention the problem for a while she also uses a comb on a weekly basis just to make sure.
Why when you are reading about head lice do you automatically start scratching your head

I'm surprised the little blighters manage to live! going off the amounts of hair gel he plasters on! but then he never puts it on the back of his head and that's where the liitle beasties are (although have not seen one personly yet) but I am curious, so will take reading glasses today)

lol @ glammamama the whole of GN will now be itching lo sorry ...


I myself am convinced I have them now!

biker the back of his head is the warmest part of his hairline (just above his collar) they like it there for some reason Luke used to always get some there,he now has a very short haircut so DD can spot them at 50ft. lol.

My kids had this more than once. It's no good just doing the children though, all the family members need to clean up at the same time.

To check if there are any, brush you hair vigorously over a piece of newspaper and the hatched lice will drop out.

Or as my HV said strong brushing breaks their legs so they can't mate, which is funny but I don't think its strictly accurate.

Great panic on our French campsite last year when it was found that GD and her French friend in the next door caravan were both infested. A rumour went round that lice could survive in the swimming pool. The site owner soon scotched that one! The girls had been trying on each others' hats.

biker just a thought !! when you have got young man clean from the dreaded beasties buy him a new pillow for his bed and change his pillow case as often as possible just to be sure he stays clean.

ok thanks glam and all..will nip round now and take his bedding off, (glam that is exactly what other DD said last night about the nape of his neck) got my reading glasses/magnifying glass.and conditioner at the ready! roll on 3-30 lol.

DS lives in a nit infested area, so every afternoon DGC are routinely combed with a nit comb when they get in from school. It's just part of their lives and the lives of their friends.

My gc's in Oz have them constantly. DD is at her wits end - as fast as they are cleared, the next one comes home with them. If only every parent in the school would treat their offspring, the problem might be solved. She has tried every remedy in the book and even paid for a 'nit' lady to treat them too . Oooh, I feel all itchy now just thinking about it.

Use Full Marks [solution] easy [10 mins] and up to 4 applications in the pack. Works really well.

Whatever you do don't use the horrible chemical washes - full of malathion (for killing greenfly!) and made me very ill. I had flu-like symptoms for over a week - and there was no flu doing the rounds.

Reminds me of when we used to have to go and see "Nitty Norah" the school nurse at school,anyone coming out of her office with a white card was deemed infected as the card gave instructions to take home to your parents that night,oh the shame !! but now it is just a common occurance and part of every day life,remembering derbac soap and that hard metal comb with terror

Mishap you obviously had a bad reaction to something[or it was sheer co-incidence] but we have all used Full Marks lots of times with no ill effects at all.

NB Getting rid of head lice is not a "clean up". The wee beasties do not limit themselves to dirty heads.

If other members of the family nit-comb their hair too, the nit comb technique works fine. There is no absolute need to use conditioner, nor even to have wet hair. The combs remove lice, not the eggs (nits), which is why you have to do it over a week or two – as the eggs hatch your job is to remove the lice (or break their legs so they can't lay more eggs) before they lay more eggs.

Metal combs are better (stronger) than plastic ones.

When the boys were young, I heard that lice preferred clean hair so I was slightly concerned that my two never had nits! Now, having read this thread, my scalp is tingling...

They seem to be pretty robust nowadays. DGD1 has long fine hair and seems to be always itching despite DD being vigilant. I read that the lotions and potions are much less effective.

My three older kids had them just the one time, but it was enough to drive me scranny! We went to the chemists, and were sold some lotion called Suleo, but it had to be left on for 24 hours, so the eldest had to stay home from school for the day, then the hair had to be washed with a special shampoo, then combed through with the nit comb. I`m afraid I couldn`t face the comb through, hubby had to do it. I believe that there are much quicker and less messy methods nowadays, thankfully.

They absolutely hate Tea Tree Oil. When at work in a children's unit we found that Tea Tree Oil shampoo followed by the same in conditioner worked a treat. Conditioner left in also works as the little bliters cannot grip onto slippery hair.

I must say that when this happened in our household, I found nightly hair washing and the nit comb and conditioner combination worked well, and broke the cycle very quickly.

I think the "breaking their legs" thing is a bit of a fallacy.