Headlice - Wanted Dead or Alive?

[Monkey77]

My youngest has recently come home with full blown headlice. I treated the family two days ago, and "just for fun" used the nit comb to see how things were going. My youngest and I had a lot of eggs and dead lice but my eldest had two or three live ones. Does that mean the treatment hasn't worked. Should I treat them again a.s.a.p or leave it a few more days and see if they were just the last surviving few?

[sara3]

try it the conditioner way, rather than keep using chemicals. you will have to keep an eye on this because you only need one louse capable of laying eggs.. and it starts all over again :o(

[puzzled54]

Go thru with the nit comb morning and evening, that will get rid of them. They can be resistant to the nit shampoo, but they cant argue with the comb.

[khoey]

treat all of you asap, if you was certain you had got rid of all the lice when you did the treatment before have a chat with the school there must be a child in the class with head lice.i wouldn`t wait any longer you run the risk of you all catching them again,

[carrot99]

I used an electronic nit comb on my girls when they were young - you can still buy them - called Robi comb. They buzz when they electrocute the lice.

[tamborine]

A battery flea comb (for pets) works well and zaps the lice & nits when they hatch. Used regularly should eliminate the problem. Nit eggs will be on furniture & where-ever the infested heads have been.

[Huderon]

You need to keep doing the nit comb for around 10 days to two weeks ... on everyone in the family. We used normal conditioner and a nit comb when the girls got them. But the nit comb we used (Nitty Gritty - expensive at around �10) also takes out eggs as well as the lice, so we usually cleared the problem in a little over a week.

[Huderon]

Oh yes .. we also washed all their bedding, clothes (they both had, and still have, long hair), coats ... anything that could have been in contact with their hair and told them not to do the hugging thing with their friends for a while

[Monkey77]

Thank you very much everyone, we have had another treatment and so far the little (insert your own expletive) seem to have died.

What frustrates me is that is states on the direction for the shampoo we used that lice cannot be passed from bed linen (didn't even think about furniture, suppose I'm going to have to do all that as well). I've washed all the bed linen anyway, but am going to check again in a couple of days to make sure that they are still all dead. WHY do they say that (rhetorical question really) when they know it's not true. It makes my blood boil as well as my head itch (mayby that's the lice as well!)

[Monkey77]

Carrot - where did you get the rombi comb? I like the idea of capital punishment for head lice.