Best treatment for head lice

Help with Head Lice Our list has compiled some helpful hints, information and recipes concerning head lice. The health information contained herein is provided for reference purposes only and is not intended to replace advice from a health professional, seek medical advise as needed. Please visit our sponsor: Interested in removing unwanted hair for cosmetic or health related reasons? Visit our hair removal site for information on electrolysis and laser hair removal information! Here is the web site that Penny sent, lots of good info and pictures so you know your dealing with the right critters: http://www.headlice.org/index.html we’ve never had these in my house but a good friend has, and after doing a lot of searching she finally came up with something she say’s works beautifully, she saturates the hair with baby oil, then wipes off the excess and puts on a shower cap and leaves it on over night, the following morning she shampoo’s to remove the oils, then she soaks her hair with a mixture of one part cider vinegar, four parts water and allows that to remain on her hair for like 20 to 30 minutes and rinses her hair clean. She says by doing this she removes all traces of any critters or eggs that may be attached to the hair, and her hair is silky soft and has a really nice shine and most of all critter free. She’s a day care worker for disadvantaged kids and she come in contact with them all the time, so she says she does this like once a month if she needs to or not, I guess it’s sorta like those saturday bath’s.Just wanted to make sure you proceed with caution with the shampoos that are designed to kill head lice. I’ve heard that they can cause neurological problems (brain/nerve problems), especially when used excessively. My girls both play softball and we had many infestations when they were younger (now both 12, no, not twins!). It was only after I dowsed those little lice with products like RID that I heard of the potential dangers of damage to brain cells. Please, please, please, proceed with caution. Spend the time to “nitpick.” I found the special comb pulled their hair something awful and was very painful, found using the fingernails and squeezing them down the shaft until the egg was between the fingers was the most gentle way to go. We put in a movie to help get our girls to sit long enough so we could get the job done. It can take hours, and do it every day until you don’t find anymore eggs. I’ve also heard that blow drying wet or damp hair can help keep from getting reinfestations – don’t know how true this is, something about the heat, I guess.

The most embarrassing thing about lice is that it is really important that you speak to the parents of the children who play with yours. Chances are their heads are infested, too, and if everyone “battles” the problem at the same time your chances of nipping it in the budare better.

I think you’d be surprised at the number of children who have had lice — the biggest problem is that their parents don’t tell others so that treatment can be started on everyone exposed, thus the terrible cycle.

Be sure to check your head and your husband’s, too!

Good luck, sleep well, and remember, it happens to the best of us!P.S. Just think of how clean your house is going to be when you’re all done with dusting, vacuuming and washing everything in it!!! You WILL sleep well!

you have to pick off each and every nit. Use a nit comb and sectionthe hair off in tiny sections, you have to do it by hand…no medicine oreo, etc will do that part…….that is the hardest part. do it daily untilthey are completely gone…….I did it in 2-3 hour stretches…….Please don’t keep using the chemicals on her ) They are sodangerous…….

My Daughter was a teacher in a Daycare & came home with them (only time I’veever seen them) And she has thick black hair down to her butthair………it was a nightmare. We bagged up all the couch cushions, washedand bleached everything else…..vacuumed the house top to bottom…the carstoo.After it was finally over I came to understand the phrase “nitpicker”Unfortunately it’s the only way along with the nit combs to get them off thehair shaft.

I found a recipe for an herbal lice treatment posted by Ela Heyn in a Hair Care Recipes site. it calls for 2 oz of olive oil, 20 drops of tea tree oil, 10 drops each rosemary, lavender, lemon, essential oils.it says to combine, apply to dry hair and cover with a plastic shower cap or small trash bags with paper clip. wrap head in a towel and leave on for two hours. Then work shampoo into dry hair to cut oil, rinse and shampoo until all residue is gone. Our school nurse also suggests to soak the hair in olive oil, wrap with plastic bag for an hour or so, then wash out. It seems that the oil smothers the little buggers.Good Luck… We had our problem with scabies…. We FINALLY got rid of those little bugger, now every time I see a little rash I start to panic.Neem oil’s also an excellent insect repellent, as well as it’s otherproperties. One site also says it’s insecticidal. I’m not sure of that,but it sure helps to keep those stupid ‘no seeums’ at bay.

I tell you head lice is everywhere. No matter how clean or how many times you wash your hair you can get head lice. The head lice are becoming immune to the RID products and the new products have even harsher chemicals in them. A mother sent me a 3 page hand written note to share with my moms who are at their wits end in dealing with habitual head lice problems. She takes and warms 2 ounces of Olive Oil in a baby food jar in the microwave for about a minute and then adds 40 drops of Tea Tree Oil and lets that sit while she washes her daughters hair with Dawn dish washing liquid two times. She takes her daughter outside and applies the olive oil/tea tree mixture and she says the head lice start running!!! She then puts a plastic bag over the hair and waits 2 hours. She then gets a flea comb from Wal Mart or Rite Aid and combs through her hair. The olive oil loosens up the nits, kills the bugs and gives her daughter a “hot oil” treatment all at once!!! She then adds 20 drops of tea tree oil to every bottle of shampoo. She said her daughter has not had it now in two years. I have been the school nurse now for two years to 2000 k-12th graders. Head lice seems to be getting worse! I try to educate the kids about sharing hats, helmets, combs, scrunchies, brushes, coats, etc. I have my “Lice Squad” check all the elementary rooms two times a month. Some of the rooms weekly!!! I hope this helps.

(see above)That is great advice..the detergent strips the oils out of the hair and truly is cheaper than buying Prell…our nurses do not have time to deal w/lice here..that is why I got the job actually, it is really slowed down..due to frequent preventative checking..for anyone who wants any information on the comb I use..please go to www.LiceMeister.org. Great Folks to work with..the flea combs are less expensive, this type of comb seems to be longer toothed and tighter teethed.

No need to be embarrassed. It can happen to anyone. I caught them on aGreyhound bus. It takes about two weeks to really get rid of them. Thebest thing i know of to get rid of them is smother her hair with mayo andput a plastic cap on her hair and leave it over night. Wash the hair in themorning and rinse with vinegar. Leave the vinegar on for at least 5 minutesand rinse it off. The mayo smothers them and the vinegar loosens the nits.Repeat this every other day for two weeks. Boil hair brushes, combs, hairclips, hats etc. Run pillows thru the dryer for 20 minutes on high tempsthen cover with plastic for two weeks, wash all bed clothes in hot water anddry with high heat. You can spray the mattress with a solution of 1 cupwater, 10 drops tea tree oil, 10 drops camphor EO, 10 drops eucalyptus EO,and 10 rosemary EO, and 10 drops of citronella EO. Spray a light mist overmattress and let dry. Once it drys, cover with plastic for two weeks.You can also spray brushes, and anything that comes in contact with the hairwith this solution to help discourage reinfestation. HTH

Don’t feel bad. I’ve just been through that with my daughter. At leastyours is old enough not to go around telling every stranger in the storeabout it! I’ll be glad when my 6 year old stops that.Anyway, try massaging mayonnaise into her scalp. I think that will loosenthe glue the nits use. I also made a bar soap that was a little strong inlye, not too much or you can burn her scalp with it. The lye will kill themlittle bugger’s. I think I upped the lye in mine about 2 ounces, not forsure. I also used a tea tree soap (tea tree oil was the only additive) andused that to help with the itchies. So far no more lice. I just dread nextyear when jenna starts 1st grade! I know it will be back and I’ll beprepared! Good luck.

I’m sure you will get tons of great info on this subject from other ‘nuts, but I wanted to put in my .02. My daughter had lice once, too. And she has hair nearly to her hiney! Not thick, but still lots of it!

I happened to have a fluorescent (sp?) light that I used when picking the nits out, and it did a wonderful job of helping me find them – and I just used my fingernails to scrape the little buggers of the hair. Press a middle finger nail to a thumb nail and slide all the way down the hair to the end, then rinse the nasty little thing under warm running water. I also washed every item I could get my hands on in the house, and stored all of her toys and bears and etc. in plastic bags for two weeks. It was a LOT of work, but we made it through and the lice and their nits were irradicated.

Far Far from embarrassing!!! I am one who is sooo picky on how things lookand how clean things are etc….. and have fought and fought with lice!!(knock on wood none this year!!!) it is a lot more then just the hair thecar, the beds, carpets, pillows, stuffed animals and other such things. Theycan carry them too — my daughter was the only one who couldn’t get rid ofthem. When I started treating the truck and car, her school locker etc…then they finally were disappearing!! I also have started to use tea treeand lavender oils in my shampoo — can’t say this is what has kept them atbay but as I said — so far none this year good luck!!!!Don’t be embarrassed, head lice are more common than you might think. Ican’t recommend a homemade remedy although you might check out some of theessential oil sites for something you could add to a light oil and combthrough. What I can tell you is that your doctor can probably prescribesomething that will be more effective than RID. Like you say, it’s finefor killing the live ones but it doesn’t get the eggs. You should alsocall your daughter’s school and talk to the nurse. Your daughter could begetting reinfested by another student and it is the nurse’s responsibilityto see that anyone infested is treated so that can’t continue to happen.One small step you can take to prevent reinfestation is to braid yourdaughter’s hair as tight as she can tolerate it. French braids areattractive and fashionable and it will keep her hair away from otherstudents hair and clothes. Good luck!This is a terrible problem in most school districts,an we have discussed this alot on the list. An acquaintance of mine,shampoos/bathes her grandchildren with 15 drops +/- of tea tree oil daily.They haven’t had a infestation in 3 years, in a school district that is really loaded with the lice. She says that it works because the lice haven’t become insensitive to the t-tree yet. May or may not work as a control/deterent after you have gotten going with the other controls. Would a shorter hair length make it easier to get the combout done. Short haircuts are very in style right now.Thirteen is such a self conscious age,I hope that this will help.

I hope that this will help some of you, please research all ideas before trying them out especially on young children. I think the most important advice or thought is that you must not feel this is any fault of yours as a mother/father/grandmother/grandfather, you get the picture. Many people seem to think that this is a ‘dirty’ subject that needs to be hidden, you would be surprised at the number of cases each year, this is not a question of your competence as a parent, but an outbreak that should be treated like any other childhood illness such as the flu, chicken pox, etc.

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