Lice

[Lilou]

Re: Does anyone have a good Anti lice remedy?!!!

She must be getting re-infected. You have to be really fastidious about cleaning all the bedding, pillows, combs/brushes while you are treating her hair. A clothes dryer (or the sun) should kill all the lice and the eggs, and if you have a hair dryer, you can use that on your daughter to do the same. I'd still use the anti-lice shampoo and comb too.

Thank goodness my kids never brought any home, but I've known others who have suffered with them. It takes a lot of work and effort,consistantly to get rid of them. Good luck, zim!

p.s. Do you have dogs/cats or other small pets in the house? They could also be infected.

 

[zim]

Re: Does anyone have a good Anti lice remedy?!!!

You have to be really fastidious about cleaning all the bedding, pillows, combs/brushes while you are treating her hair.

I have change it, all the bed sheets, combs pillows like 3 times in a year!!!

and if you have a hair dryer, you can use that on your daughter to do the same

Hair dryer, hair iron, sun !!! :/

Do you have dogs/cats or other small pets in the house? They could also be infected.

Umm yes both, I never thought that them could be infected too I will know the next sunday that they will be castrated.

:( or me is a terrible battle since they back always, although I have done several things to take them away !!!

 

[webglider]

Re: Does anyone have a good Anti lice remedy?!!!

To loosen the eggs so that they can be pulled off the hair smear butter all over the head and cover with a shower cap and leave it on overnight. My daughter had lice a few times when she was in elementry school, and I tried this remedy as well as others. Use old sheets when doing this as the shower cap gets dislodged during sleep and the butter drips on the sheets. Do this for yourself as well as lice can easily spread. There is nothing like waking up in the morning, looking in the mirror, and watching butter run down your face into the sink. Margarine works also.

I think that there are some products out there now that also loosen the eggs so that you can peel them off one strand of hair at a time.

There are special lice combs to remove eggs if I remember correcctly.

If I remember correctly, you also have to wash the clothes in hot hot water, put them in a hot dryer and then seal them in plastic bags for awhile.

The hair dryer is a great help as well if you use it regularly. I was also told that hair color kills lice. Then there are some people who pick lice off kids' hair as a way to make some extra money. I got their names from my daughter's pediatrician.
Those people are the unsung heroes of the world.

Also, go to your child's school and make sure that the teachers are taking this issue seriously and not allowing kids to try on each other's hats, coats etc. There should be no rug for kids to sit on in class during story time. The best thing is for kids to put their coats in separate bags when they go to school instead of hanging coats together in the coat closet.

After the second time my daughter got lice I showed up in the school in a somewhat frenzied state and insisted that every kid in the class get their head checked by the nurse. I would not leave until this was done. I was always one of those pushy embarrassing parents.

Some parents with boys just shaved their sons' heads.

Good luck with this and stay strong!!!!

Just to look on the bright side of things, as bad as lice are, bedbugs are worse.

 

[cassandra]

Re: Does anyone have a good Anti lice remedy?!!!

Getting rid of all the nits is also important. They can be tricky to spot, so use a strong light.
Also washing and blowdrying hair every day thoroughly should help a great deal.
Good luck, they're a pain!
Edit: for clarification

 

[Chu]

Re: Does anyone have a good Anti lice remedy?!!!

There is another thread on this topic with lots of tips, zim.

Check it out: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,23289.msg256026.html#msg256026

And good luck!

 

[Adaryn]

Re: Does anyone have a good Anti lice remedy?!!!

Every time I put all the treatment but the animals back in days, no other of my kids have those small animals only her !!!!

Once you've gotten rid of all the nits, you could use a lice repellant with essential oils, and spray it on your daughter's neck and near the ears, to avoid them coming back:
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/safely-eliminating-head-lice.html
The thread linked by Ailén above is also very useful.

 

[zim]

There is another thread on this topic with lots of tips, zim.

Check it out: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,23289.msg256026.html#msg256026

And good luck!

Yes I have read today all the thread on this topic and I´ll begin to look for those oils thanks Ailén!!!! :)

Every time I put all the treatment but the animals back in days, no other of my kids have those small animals only her !!!!

Once you've gotten rid of all the nits, you could use a lice repellant with essential oils, and spray it on your daughter's neck and near the ears, to avoid them coming back:
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/safely-eliminating-head-lice.html
The thread linked by Ailén above is also very useful.

Thank you Adaryn I hope get rid of all animals and nits!!! :/

The hair dryer is a great help as well if you use it regularly. I was also told that hair color kills lice. Then there are some people who pick lice off kids' hair as a way to make some extra money. I got their names from my daughter's pediatrician.
Those people are the unsung heroes of the world.

Thanks webglider, I had used my Hair dryer but I think is very old since not much hot on it!!!

Well around us there is not people who pick lice off so I must do it, I hope with oils she can get rid of all !!!!


Now the oils are from aryuveda? Since I never heard about neem oil?

 

[Graalsword]

In my case, with the neem and olive, I just could get rid of them recently, one year after getting them, that is a few weeks ago :/

The lice had already reached middle ages, built castles on my head, developped agriculture.... They all finally died out after several induced cataclysms,

 

[cassandra]

In my case, with the neem and olive, I just could get rid of them recently, one year after getting them, that is a few weeks ago :/

The lice had already reached middle ages, built castles on my head, developped agriculture.... They all finally died out after several induced cataclysms,

Sorry, but had to laugh. Glad you finally got rid of them!

 

[zim]

In my case, with the neem and olive, I just could get rid of them recently, one year after getting them, that is a few weeks ago :/
The lice had already reached middle ages, built castles on my head, developped agriculture.... They all finally died out after several induced cataclysms,

It appears your lice and my Daughter´s lice had built good places to live !!!!

 

[Laura]

In my case, with the neem and olive, I just could get rid of them recently, one year after getting them, that is a few weeks ago :/
The lice had already reached middle ages, built castles on my head, developped agriculture.... They all finally died out after several induced cataclysms,

It appears your lice and my Daughter´s lice had built good places to live !!!!

I just can't imagine having something like that for longer than it takes to know it's there and get rid of it!

Daily washings, careful combing while the hair is wet with the fine-tooth comb (you can even do this while under the running shower) and using the blow-drying on HOT will get rid of them and keep them gone. Using a good oil on the hair while washing/rinsing will also help to protect it from the heat damage.

In other words, you really don't have to buy any special products except the comb and have a good hairdryer.

 

[zim]

I just can't imagine having something like that for longer than it takes to know it's there and get rid of it!

Daily washings, careful combing while the hair is wet with the fine-tooth comb (you can even do this while under the running shower) and using the blow-drying on HOT will get rid of them and keep them gone. Using a good oil on the hair while washing/rinsing will also help to protect it from the heat damage.

In other words, you really don't have to buy any special products except the comb and have a good hairdryer.

In my case the issue is each time we were doing the cleaning my Daughter spend weeks in home, in vacations or free days, but then she went to school or to her father´s house and back with a new lice on her hair!!!!

So after the period of clean and the period of re-infested I was sure that they were gone until I realized that she got another group of lice!!!!


I try that she use more often the comb now, following this information about the oil & dryer hair I´ll see if she gets better!!!

 

[Laura]

In my case the issue is each time we were doing the cleaning my Daughter spend weeks in home, in vacations or free days, but then she went to school or to her father´s house and back with a new lice on her hair!!!!

So after the period of clean and the period of re-infested I was sure that they were gone until I realized that she got another group of lice!!!!


I try that she use more often the comb now, following this information about the oil & dryer hair I´ll see if she gets better!!!

What part of washing the hair every night before bed and using the blow dryer is so hard? Especially when a kid is in school??? I did it with my girls. And two of them had hair they could sit on.

 

[cassandra]

How about also braiding her hair very tightly and getting her to wear a bandana, which look cute on girls or a cap?

The lice infection got so bad at our school, even the much older kids doing their end-of-school exams got infected and were worried they wouldn't be allowed to take them if any teacher found out.
Question: How come the school is doing nothing, or is the lice problem considered a dirty secret?
We had the same problem at our kindergarten until at last they finally insisted on checking the kids' heads every day, and sending infected kids home. The problem was gone after a week or two.

 

[Graalsword]

In my case, with the neem and olive, I just could get rid of them recently, one year after getting them, that is a few weeks ago :/

The lice had already reached middle ages, built castles on my head, developped agriculture.... They all finally died out after several induced cataclysms,

Sorry, but had to laugh. Glad you finally got rid of them!

In my case, with the neem and olive, I just could get rid of them recently, one year after getting them, that is a few weeks ago :/
The lice had already reached middle ages, built castles on my head, developped agriculture.... They all finally died out after several induced cataclysms,

It appears your lice and my Daughter´s lice had built good places to live !!!!

Yeah! They were very stubborn through several generations

I just can't imagine having something like that for longer than it takes to know it's there and get rid of it!

Yes, believe me, it was a nightmare. But the problem was that everytime I got rid of them (following all the recommended process, the oils, the dryer, the metallic comb), even after getting also rid of most eggs, there seems to have always been a few ones left alive somewhere. And after a couple of weeks, the newborns were already colonizing my hair.

Now it is very winter where I live, I don't know if that also helped (maybe for them it is similar to extreme heat), but I don't have them any longer.