Tips on how to get rid of lice?!
Question: my neice that lives with me has head lice. I treated her hair with Rid, washed every blanket and pillow in the house, washed her coat and hat and clothes that she has worn lately. I vaccumed the furniture and carpets and washed all of the brushes in hot bleach water. I spent 2 hours combing through her hair removing the nits. She went back to school and they found more in her hair. Little baby ones. I thought the shampoo killed any eggs in her hair too that I missed. Obviously not. I can only treat her every 7 days with the Rid. I have heard that between shampoos I can use olive oil in her hair or mayonaise. Do these work? Also, if I miss one egg, it starts over again? Help.. Anyone go through this and know what actually works or is there something more I should be doing?
Thanks
Answers: my neice that lives with me has head lice. I treated her hair with Rid, washed every blanket and pillow in the house, washed her coat and hat and clothes that she has worn lately. I vaccumed the furniture and carpets and washed all of the brushes in hot bleach water. I spent 2 hours combing through her hair removing the nits. She went back to school and they found more in her hair. Little baby ones. I thought the shampoo killed any eggs in her hair too that I missed. Obviously not. I can only treat her every 7 days with the Rid. I have heard that between shampoos I can use olive oil in her hair or mayonaise. Do these work? Also, if I miss one egg, it starts over again? Help.. Anyone go through this and know what actually works or is there something more I should be doing?
Thanks
Ha! Went through that phase with my daughter for a while. One kid gets it, spreads it around class, and by the time you are free and clear your child gets it again. What you list above is exactly what I did - repeatedly. Use the hottest water you can when washing and bleach whenever you can (I bought white sheets for her for this purpose). All stuffed animals or soft toys MUST be put into an air tight plastic bag for about a month - they can't live without a human skull and that gives them all time to die off. The BEST thing to do is cut her hair short (had to do it...) and continuously pick nits and eggs out of the hair for about two weeks. I boiled hard hair care brushes and threw away any soft kind of brushes or the ones that are bristle thick. Once the hair was cut and the constant picking, the lice finally went away. I also STRESSED to her about keeping her head away from other kids and not using hats, brushes, combs, hair bands, etc from other kids.
Keep particular notice at the base of the neck and behind the ears. That's where the buggies really like to hang out. But you HAVE to cut the hair for this phase.
I don't recall having these types of outbreaks when we were kids, but I've heard that the buggies have become somewhat resistant to the pesticides we use to treat for them and make it harder to remove. That's why you have to just keep picking them out until they are all gone. I think their eggs can be viable for up to 10 days.
Good Luck
Did you boil her brushes and combs? Also what about wiping down seats in the car, throwing stuffed animals in the dryer, etc. Any cloth toy period should be thrown in the dryer, I think it's for 30 minutes.
Also when I had them once as a kid. My Mom combed my hair every night.
It looks like you are pretty much doing all you can. You do need to check for nits every day and keep washing the linens, etc. Check this link for more information:
http://children.webmd.com/tc/lice-topic-...
Lice are becoming resistant to the chemicals in lice shampoos, so that may be why they weren't all gone.
Good luck! (This answer was provided by a librarian!)
Maybe she keeps getting them from school. Is she borrowing hair things or brushes? Mayonaise does work but it only kills lice and the nits still have to be combed out. It has to be left on overnight "suffocate" the lice.
When I was a kid they kept sending me home for "lice". My mother kept trying to explain it was hairspray flakes. I finally had to go back to school with a note from the doctor. It turned out I didn't even have lice. I still battle scalp problems. Sometimes the school is wrong!
Olive does work we recommend it in the office I work in....first you need to section off the hair to make sure you get a good application of the oil all over the head, then cover it with plastic wrap or a shower cap for 8 hrs...then wash the hair at least twice to remove all the oil. You then have to comb through the hair removing the nits and eggs.
Olive oil works in w 2 ways...1. it smothers the lice and 2 it loosens the "cement" that allows the nits to attach to the hair shaft....good luck
when me and my sister had lice, my mom put mayonnaise in our hair, it's really gross, but it helped. she should try it.