Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / January 2006

Unfortunatly I have become quite accustomed to getting rid of these pests!!
There are many different ways of ridding them
1)Use a fine tooth nit comb and normal hair conditioner and just comb
through to remove all the crawlers, once all the crawlers are gone no more
eggs can be laid and within a week or so you will be nit free
2)An over the counter nit remedy such as full marks.  These can be very
expensive and in my opinion do not always work.  The other downside is that
they cant be used very often or head lice become immune to the formula.
3)My mum swears by vinegar.  Two caps full of vinegar in a jug of clean
water on the last rinse of your hair.  She always did this on us and we
NEVER had nits!
HTH
Good Luck!!
Clair

No secret, and no sure fire remedy except daily combing. I hate these
blessed things.
Comb with a metal nit comb, wiping it on a clean tissue between each swipe.
Metal because the plastic ones can get damaged so the gaps between tines get
larger - it doesn't take much to let a louse through.
One tip that helped me when we were having trouble de-bugging. If you can,
let the hair get really greasy, if necessary pour on some cooking oil - we
didn't wash from Sunday, then poured on the oil on Friday after school, left
it in till Monday morning. Keep combing. Leave the hair greasy for several
days, combing every day. I'm not sure how this helped, except it was really
easy to keep the hair separated into sections, no knots, very easy to comb
and to see what was on the scalp. It may have a slightly suffocating effect
on the bugs, but I'm not sure about that. It worked though, after several
months of daily combing and banging our heads against a wall.

Keep combing and using the lotions as per the packets.

Personally, I never found the First Marks mousse any good and a friend who
used a lotion that only needed to be left on for a short while reported bad
results.

I always use one that you have to leave on for 12 hours. Derbac is my lotion
of choice.
It can happen that the lice develope immunity to a lotion so if one doesn't
work, go back to the pharmacy, tell them which you used and they can give
one with a different active ingredient. Different lotions have different
active ingrediant so sometimes the first one doesn't work.

Also, combing sometimes need to supplemented with finger picking out. DD has
very fine hair and even with a metal comb it can pass over an egg and not
remove it. Bright light, hair clips and bobbles to hold the hair in sections
and a cartoon to keep the small person still.

love
Clare

dont shampoo the hair, wet the hair and put loads of conditioner on hair and
use a bone comb this works a treat also FULL MARKS
http://www.boots.com/shop/product_details.jsp?productid=1046803

this is very  good  it may cost a bit but it works a treat

HTH

minxy

My neighbour always swears by tea tree oil.  Does the tea tree oil
combing bit, and once the little critters have been eradicated, wash
with a tea tree oil shampoo & conditioner, and they stay away.

Good luck!

Angela