Please help me and my daughter. She has had an incurable spell of head lice for !
Question: I am very highly educated in this area and have worked in public school systems, private daycares and nursing homes. I know all the products by heart and all the must haves and must do's concerning getting rid of headlice with no results!! It never fails, after about 2weeks it comes back and sometimes even worse than ever. We have sprayed her locker at school, checked her friends's heads before they all play ( very embarassing) , treated the family, treated the pets and sprayed every fabric and washed every washable. Even the car and coats and all. Do any of you out there have any home remedies or specific things to help my little girl. She could seriously test positive for the treatment RID in her blood we have treated so much. We have even used the enviromental non chemical treatments. Please help.
Answers: I am very highly educated in this area and have worked in public school systems, private daycares and nursing homes. I know all the products by heart and all the must haves and must do's concerning getting rid of headlice with no results!! It never fails, after about 2weeks it comes back and sometimes even worse than ever. We have sprayed her locker at school, checked her friends's heads before they all play ( very embarassing) , treated the family, treated the pets and sprayed every fabric and washed every washable. Even the car and coats and all. Do any of you out there have any home remedies or specific things to help my little girl. She could seriously test positive for the treatment RID in her blood we have treated so much. We have even used the enviromental non chemical treatments. Please help.
Have you tried the equal parts of mineral oil and mayo?
Put it on her hair and wrap with sran wrap for about an hour and a half to smother the little creatures and then the mayo helps to comb the nits out.
You have to do it again in 8 days.
Make sure you are not only cleaning with hot hot water on all of your washables, but also put teddies and dollies and anything like that that she is playing with into the freezer in a plastic bag for several days.
Wash all clothes,coats, sheets,etc.
Spray all rooms, beds, includings mattresses,rugs.
If you leave the house for a week they won't have anything to live off of!
Go to the doctor and get Kwel shampoo (prescription only). If it keeps recurring she may still be coming in contact with it someplace. I am sure you know but remind her not to share combs or hairbrushes with her friends. The only other suggestion would be to cut her hair very short and then treat it again. The Kwel shampoo works very well.
I got headlice ALOT as a child so I know what you mean. My mother had a hard time getting rid of mine as well. Just keep at it, be sure she washes her head everynight. You might have to even get a comb and go at the roots and grab the eggs before they hatch. What grade is she in? If she's young and still having nap time, be sure to talk to teachers and make sure she goes no where close to other kids heads. I had a teacher that lade us head to head..and that was how i got it! If it doesn't go away, or doesn't seem to clear up, you might want to cheack a doctor.
Let her hair become dirty. Lice only like clean hair.
After a few days of not washing, Put 1/4 c olive oil into hair
work it in. Take the lice comb and comb out nits
Nits wont be able to breathe in the oil and will rellease their hold on hair. The combing out takes the longest.
rinse her hair with Listerine mouth wash it works
make sure shes not picking up friends cat or a stray . cats can get it really bad
You could try a doctor. Or give her two baths a day.Look for special shampoo.
Cutting her hair short won't do a dang thing. Do you wash her hair every day? if so, cut back to three times a week with dry shampoos between. Better to have oily hair than lice.
And once she hits puberty, breathe a sigh of relief, it's pretty much over. Embarassing, but I had the worst time of it from age 8 to 12, and not a problem since.
Treat her as directed with the prescripton stuff, nit comb her daily. It's the only way. I'm serious, they cut all my hair off, and i still kept getting it, so it doesn't really help.
Well the old fashioned way is to get a bucket of water and add a capful of kerosene , and dump it over their head - - either outside or over the bath ( then you straight away dump a bucket of clean water ( please note that their hair will be flammable until it dries naturally - don't use a hair dryer ) . If I got them again , that is what I would be doing . The other old fashioned thing is vinegar , use a spray bottle , and comb out all the nit gunk ( this is to maintain it , after the kero treatment ) .
When my kids kept having it , I was retreating every 6 days - that was the only way for me . I used the pyrethrum foam wrapped it all up in glad wrap for one hour , washed it out and then did the same thing with conditioner , again for one whole hour ( its good for their hair too ) , then I set to work picking out all the nits and eggs .
If you make up a mix of tea tree oil and water and spritz her hair with it every day , that can help to not catch them back . But seriously every two weeks ? I'd say you probably never got rid of them ( I saw my step mother go through this with her kids - its hard to get rid of them once they are really set-in ) . hth
It doesn't sound like the problem is coming from home. Where else could she be getting the lice? Does your daughter share hats with her friends? What about hair brushes? Does she find bird feathers and put them in her hair? (I got lice that way once.)
If the problem isn't something your daughter is unknowingly doing, then talk to the principal. You've done everything you reasonably can, and at some point the insecticide might start making your daughter sick. Ask to have the school fumigated. Ask that the kids be put through head lice checks. The bugs are obviously coming from SOMEWHERE.
take her to the doctor...!
i had the same problem with my daughter viniger did the trick.
Our family had a case like this. We could not get rid of the lice. We tried cleaning everything but nothing worked. After doing some research, I came up with the solution. It seems that nits hatch after about 10 days. So if you retreat her hair 10 days after her first treatment you will kill any remaining nits that has hatched. Thus preventing another outbreak.
Try putting the items that can't be cleaned in garbage bags and sealing them up for a few months. It will kill the lice.