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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 65668" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>UG, we had lice and ug what a mess it was. My oldest child has the thickest head of hair (and it is wavy curley) of anyone I have ever seen, even when I was a cosmetologist.....and her hair went down to her behind. My middle child did not have hair quite so thick, but it was also quite long, also to her behind. (they could sit on it, but yes, I often kept it in braids) and even my lil guy, he also has incredibly thick hair, and it was longish and my own hair was quite long (mid back) </p><p>Oldest dtr got them sharieing hair supplies and hoodies etc and doing sleepovers. It was a nitemare in her ed bd class and with her 1-1 aide. The aide jumped up and screamed very loud in class difficult child YOU HAVE BUGS. Quite humiliating and embarrassing in 10th grade, to be sure. Worse, difficult child has an extreme powerful intesne phobia of bugs. Combine that with an intense hatred of anyone invading her personal space, and she would not let school nurse near her, so danged school nurse rather than call ME to come get her and handle lice (yes our school has a no nits policy) - nurse called police to come hold difficult child down to be checked for lice. UG. </p><p></p><p>It was a nasty battle, but I think it is as Marg said- the shampoo/pesticides we bought likely were outdated. Old. </p><p>All that hair was miserable to try to comb thru and everytime we thought we had them, nope. we tried everything you can think, but were not winning the war. It dragged on many month, but partly I think my kids refused to stop shareing hair things and wearing friends clothes. </p><p>You name it we tried it. Pesticides, OTC and RX....electric "zapping" comb, mayonnaise, </p><p></p><p>What finally worked for us was I climbed into bathtub with each child, daily at first then every other day, then once a week, this went on several weeks, months even.and continues even now years later I do this approx once a month------ I would first shampoo their head, then put on large amounts of cheap hair conditioner, and use a regular comb first, and then the nit comb and painstakingly, like was said above, comb every strand several times, do the entire head and scalp- and then comb another direction....literally 2 hours on oldest child each time. I had blisters and my hands and arms were SO sore...doing 3 kids heads plus husband and myself. I left the conditioner on the hair while I combed, and yes, dipped it in water and swiped it with paper towel after every swipe thru hair, trapping them critters. then sealed THAT in a ziplock and dispsoseing of it. It was a nitemare, and it is due to remembering that nitemare that even long after we finally had no more we continue to do periodic comb thrus and checks. My kids used tojoke about their pets, yeesh........I guess they eventually had to joke about it otherwise we all might STILL be crying about it. It was creepy icky feeling, embarrasssing, humbling, and so very very time and energy consuming. Many a nite we would instead of be in tub, sit in a chain each of us with another in front of them, TV on, combing the person in front of them, except I never trusted they did a great job on person n front of them, so I still also double checked. </p><p></p><p>I have heard lice do not like dirty hair, I have heard dirty hair is harder for them to cling to? I do not know if that is true or not, but I know the conditioner worked to help us get them off the hair (like maybe they could not cling becuz of the slipperyness of the conditioner?)..plus it seemed to me it may have "puffed them up" some, but that could be my imagination. </p><p></p><p>At that time I had not heard to use conditioner, but happened onto it by accident becuz well, with all that hair, it was SO hard to comb thru it with those fine combs, I HAD to use heavy conditioner to get thru that hair......and found by accident that I got more of them critters per comb swipe with the conditioner than without. </p><p></p><p>Best of luck to you!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 65668, member: 1697"] UG, we had lice and ug what a mess it was. My oldest child has the thickest head of hair (and it is wavy curley) of anyone I have ever seen, even when I was a cosmetologist.....and her hair went down to her behind. My middle child did not have hair quite so thick, but it was also quite long, also to her behind. (they could sit on it, but yes, I often kept it in braids) and even my lil guy, he also has incredibly thick hair, and it was longish and my own hair was quite long (mid back) Oldest dtr got them sharieing hair supplies and hoodies etc and doing sleepovers. It was a nitemare in her ed bd class and with her 1-1 aide. The aide jumped up and screamed very loud in class difficult child YOU HAVE BUGS. Quite humiliating and embarrassing in 10th grade, to be sure. Worse, difficult child has an extreme powerful intesne phobia of bugs. Combine that with an intense hatred of anyone invading her personal space, and she would not let school nurse near her, so danged school nurse rather than call ME to come get her and handle lice (yes our school has a no nits policy) - nurse called police to come hold difficult child down to be checked for lice. UG. It was a nasty battle, but I think it is as Marg said- the shampoo/pesticides we bought likely were outdated. Old. All that hair was miserable to try to comb thru and everytime we thought we had them, nope. we tried everything you can think, but were not winning the war. It dragged on many month, but partly I think my kids refused to stop shareing hair things and wearing friends clothes. You name it we tried it. Pesticides, OTC and RX....electric "zapping" comb, mayonnaise, What finally worked for us was I climbed into bathtub with each child, daily at first then every other day, then once a week, this went on several weeks, months even.and continues even now years later I do this approx once a month------ I would first shampoo their head, then put on large amounts of cheap hair conditioner, and use a regular comb first, and then the nit comb and painstakingly, like was said above, comb every strand several times, do the entire head and scalp- and then comb another direction....literally 2 hours on oldest child each time. I had blisters and my hands and arms were SO sore...doing 3 kids heads plus husband and myself. I left the conditioner on the hair while I combed, and yes, dipped it in water and swiped it with paper towel after every swipe thru hair, trapping them critters. then sealed THAT in a ziplock and dispsoseing of it. It was a nitemare, and it is due to remembering that nitemare that even long after we finally had no more we continue to do periodic comb thrus and checks. My kids used tojoke about their pets, yeesh........I guess they eventually had to joke about it otherwise we all might STILL be crying about it. It was creepy icky feeling, embarrasssing, humbling, and so very very time and energy consuming. Many a nite we would instead of be in tub, sit in a chain each of us with another in front of them, TV on, combing the person in front of them, except I never trusted they did a great job on person n front of them, so I still also double checked. I have heard lice do not like dirty hair, I have heard dirty hair is harder for them to cling to? I do not know if that is true or not, but I know the conditioner worked to help us get them off the hair (like maybe they could not cling becuz of the slipperyness of the conditioner?)..plus it seemed to me it may have "puffed them up" some, but that could be my imagination. At that time I had not heard to use conditioner, but happened onto it by accident becuz well, with all that hair, it was SO hard to comb thru it with those fine combs, I HAD to use heavy conditioner to get thru that hair......and found by accident that I got more of them critters per comb swipe with the conditioner than without. Best of luck to you! [/QUOTE]
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