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[Susie65]

Headlice AAGGGGHHHH!

My youngest started school this September and every weekend since she started I have had to treat her (and the rest of us)

I have now been sitting up with her in the now familiar bedtime routine and I have found more. I know she is clear when I send her on Mondays (well definitely no live ones) but by the end of the week there are more 'little friends'. She has long blonde hair which is tied very close to her head in a bun all week but this makes the process of combing very long and draw out. My daughter just talks about them as if they are a fact of life. She tells the teachers at school that she wears her hair up so she doesn't get crawlies in her hair!

We have tea tree shampoo and conditioner (no effect). I treat her with the full marks mousse as I feel the liquids are very strong smelling and as she has very long hair there would have to be a lot on. I comb her hair with the nit comb most evenings and I even wash her hair leaving the conditioner in and wet combing it. I think that the mousse is not killing the eggs (all the ones today were tiny)

I have tried everything! I have washed all our bedding so much it is going threadbare! There cannot be a more vigilant bug busting parent than me!! Yet still they come. I realise that (typically) she has probably chosen the child who's parents don't bother as her best friend and I know school is doing a lot - sending letters home etc but it is driving me up the pole. I am becoming really obsessive about it.

Sorry I know there's not much else I can do but just wanted a huge rant
Sue

[narnia]

I have to say I have had the pesky little things myself and it's a horrid experience.I now use Hedrin lotion and (touch wood) it's FANTASTIC!! No combing, no smell and no stinging eyes.It IS expensive, but i reckon it's worth every penny, and if you buy it in Boots, at least you get points on your card!!

[Susie65]

Yes my boss was talking about this. I am quite cynical though because they all say 'kills all eggs' etc. I think I will buy some tomorrow seems you recommend it. Thanks
Sue

[aliamch]

Touch wood none of mine have had them. I used to de-louse my friends children weekly for her; her children all have really white blonde hair and its hard to see anything until they start to crawl and she just couldn't bare to do it. However a few months ago someone recommeded a range of product called Neem which you can buy in health shops. I check their hair for her every week and it does seem to be working.

This just reminded me of when my eldest was at preschool and there was an outbreak of nits the leader told me in a very loud voice that 'Alice should be fine, they only like clean hair'. It took me a while to realise I was being insulted!

Karrie

[marie67uk]

We have been going through the same with my youngest son this week. After he got out of the bath on Sunday, having had his hair washed, there was one floating louse. So back in he got and after a load of tea tree conditioner and a nit comb the first louse was joined by over 30 others! To days later, with the same process, we found only 1. Hopefully, that will be the end of them. We'll find out tomorrow! He had spent the day with a friend and lot of other kids at Scrapstore, making things so I am hoping he picked them up that day as most seemed adult size.

[Chill]

It is so hard but I am sure they are attracted to some people more than others (like mosquitoes to my husband and not me). I have families at nuresery whose children are constantly getting headlice and the poor parents are distraught and doing all the right things. I feel so sorry for them.

[Inge]

dont know if this works but one mum I know leaves the conditioner in her daughters hair when putting it up, or puts lots of gel on the hair, she says it stops them and her daughter has not had them for the last year. much the same principle as dirty hair I suppose.

Inge

[hali]

id like them destroyed too, would save us all a lot of itching

[shirel]

Hedrin is brilliant, a little expensive but seems to do the trick on my four long haired girls!!!

[marie67uk]

No lice found on tonights conditioner/comb through so hopefully we have seen the las of them. Next comb through Sunday. I haven't seen any eggs yet so hopefully the adults had only just arrived!

[Deb]

Have just had my daughter's hair cut to shoulder length and bought Nice n Clear from Boots which contains Neem, and you don't rinse it out so maybe that will help? Have spent half term combing through my daughter's hair too.