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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 93703"><p>Lice has nothing to do with hygiene...only opportunity. You can't just treat your daughter. You have to treat everyone in the family as a precaution even if you don't see anything on them.</p><p></p><p>When difficult child was 4, my kids got them. Turns out easy child's step-sister had picked them up at Girl Scouts Camp and ExH didn't bother to tell us until 6 weeks after easy child came home from his visit. We could not get rid of them. We used Rid multiple times, the other product (can't think of it) from the drug store multiple times and got a prescription product from the doctor. Nothing worked.</p><p></p><p>For 6 weeks, I vacuumed daily - including baseboards, furniture, car, mattresses and under beds, bagged up stuffed animals, washed bedding in hot water and dried in a hot dryer every day, boiled combs and brushes, kept difficult child's waist-length hair in braids, sprayed the house with the Rid stuff, checked for nits daily. It was exhausting. I felt like shaving heads and burning the house down and starting over.</p><p></p><p>Then, I came across an article in a small, neighborhood paper written by a school nurse about Super Lice. She mentioned how traditional methods were not working anymore. Then she said that coconut oil is toxic to lice and that Sodium Laurel Sulfate (not Sodium Laureth Sulfate - though most products that contain one, contain the other) is a derivative of coconut oil. So, shampoos with that ingredient (Herbal Essence, Suave for example) are a repellant to lice. </p><p></p><p>The product Queen Helene Cholesterol Conditioning Treatment - purchased at Sally's Beauty Supply - contains this also and is what we used (per the article) to kill the lice. Coat the hair and cover with a shower cap (we used a Kroger bag) for 3 hours. Then rinse and use a nit comb. (It's a heavy conditioner so you may want to follow with a clarifying shampoo.) This doesn't kill the eggs, so you'll have to repeat in 7 days. I continued to use the nit comb every day in between.</p><p></p><p>After 6 weeks of daily hell, this is what finally worked for us. I was ready to give up and was in tears almost every day. I was exhausted and beginning to wonder if we were ever going to get rid of the lice.</p><p></p><p>by the way - difficult child slept in my bed at that time and I never saw a single nit or louse on my head (I treated myself anyway, though, as a precaution). I think the reason is because the shampoo I used contained Sodium Laurel Sulfate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 93703"] Lice has nothing to do with hygiene...only opportunity. You can't just treat your daughter. You have to treat everyone in the family as a precaution even if you don't see anything on them. When difficult child was 4, my kids got them. Turns out easy child's step-sister had picked them up at Girl Scouts Camp and ExH didn't bother to tell us until 6 weeks after easy child came home from his visit. We could not get rid of them. We used Rid multiple times, the other product (can't think of it) from the drug store multiple times and got a prescription product from the doctor. Nothing worked. For 6 weeks, I vacuumed daily - including baseboards, furniture, car, mattresses and under beds, bagged up stuffed animals, washed bedding in hot water and dried in a hot dryer every day, boiled combs and brushes, kept difficult child's waist-length hair in braids, sprayed the house with the Rid stuff, checked for nits daily. It was exhausting. I felt like shaving heads and burning the house down and starting over. Then, I came across an article in a small, neighborhood paper written by a school nurse about Super Lice. She mentioned how traditional methods were not working anymore. Then she said that coconut oil is toxic to lice and that Sodium Laurel Sulfate (not Sodium Laureth Sulfate - though most products that contain one, contain the other) is a derivative of coconut oil. So, shampoos with that ingredient (Herbal Essence, Suave for example) are a repellant to lice. The product Queen Helene Cholesterol Conditioning Treatment - purchased at Sally's Beauty Supply - contains this also and is what we used (per the article) to kill the lice. Coat the hair and cover with a shower cap (we used a Kroger bag) for 3 hours. Then rinse and use a nit comb. (It's a heavy conditioner so you may want to follow with a clarifying shampoo.) This doesn't kill the eggs, so you'll have to repeat in 7 days. I continued to use the nit comb every day in between. After 6 weeks of daily hell, this is what finally worked for us. I was ready to give up and was in tears almost every day. I was exhausted and beginning to wonder if we were ever going to get rid of the lice. by the way - difficult child slept in my bed at that time and I never saw a single nit or louse on my head (I treated myself anyway, though, as a precaution). I think the reason is because the shampoo I used contained Sodium Laurel Sulfate. [/QUOTE]
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