From the article: Head Lice Treatment
Head lice is a bane to any grade school student and her parents. Do you have a story of head lice that wouldn't go away? How far have you had to go before the head lice went? Share your story with other readers and see how others have felt your pain. Why You Hate Head Lice
It's hard on the poor kids
- My daughter is 6 and has had lice 4-5 times since she started going to daycare 3 years ago. I hate that. Her BEST friend of 3+ years has brought it to our home 3 of the times. All three times she spent the night with my daughter, within days, she would have lice. The 4th time my daughter got it at her house. The daycare teachers told me that this poor little girl and her brothers and sisters have lice at least once every couple of months. I know it doesn't mean they are dirty, but all the time. I had to stop the two of them from playing together, and that SUCKS!!! My daughter has extremely thick dark brown hair, and the last time she had it, within 2 days, I spent a total of 15 hours nitpicking while she slept. Now she has nits again, I see NO bugs at all, but 15+ hours again, she is not happy. I know it's something almost every family deals with, but I'm tired of it!!! Fortunately though I have not gotten it. I wish they would disappear.
- —Guest Jessica
Ewww!
- When I was a kid I remember everyone use to have little sleep overs and share pillows and sleep in sleeping bags together. Well that wasn't me. The day I came home from the sleepover I was constantly itching and scratching. I had very long nails, so every time I itched I would check my nails. About two weeks later I found a louse bug in my NAIL! It was gross. I immediately showed my mom and we did the vinegar treatment. It worked! But ever since that I checked my kids hair about once a month.
- —Guest blah gross
Mom, they're moving
- This was a while ago. My son was 6 and he had a headful of beautiful golden curls. He'd just taken a shower and he called me into the bathroom, alarmed because he something was in hair. I said, "Honey, it's just sand." He said, "No mom, they're moving!' I looked more closely, but I still couldn't believe it. I was in deep, deep denial that MY CHILD could have lice. I must have spent 5 minutes looking at his scalp, trying to convince myself that it just wasn't so, then I got him dressed in a hurry and we immediately went to the pharmacy to get the shampoo. After repeated shampooings, washing all the bed linen and all his clothes and stuffed toys, taking the rug out of his room, and repeatedly combing through his hair with the plastic comb that came with the shampoo, he still had lice. It wasn't until we bought one of those fine-toothed metal combs that we finally got rid of the critters. It took hours of tortuous combing, but the comb did the trick.
- —Guest SusanH
no not nits again
- we are continually battling these little blighters. our plan of actionwhich seems to keep them at bay is as follows. 1. slather conditioner on dry hair really thick and let sit for about 10mins. it doesnt have to be expensive just a cheap one will do. now i would suggest a metal nit comb. you are gonna have to sit there and go through it section by section and comb through it all. 2. then use a tee tree oil shampoo either shop bought or made by yourself ( just google a recipe) use this every day for two weeks. 3. during this two week period check every day. and do another conditioner treatment. 4. After you have washed your hair once or twice a day you need to rinse with a cheap vinegar. vinegar help dissolves the nit glue. ( i read somewhere that Nits have been known to stay stuck to a hair shaft for over 4 years) brush through with a a comb. 5. hot wash your bed linen and dry in the drier if possible all on hot.and soft toys bag up and remove from room for two weeks
- —Guest kelly
Leave Me Alone
- My head had been itching for a long time and I found a bottle of nit lotion, put it in, left it for 10 mins and washed it off. I must have combed out literally 100 nits. I wasn't itchy for a week after that and continued to do daily nit comb outs. Then I found another bugger. I repeated the steps. Then I found another. Repeated the steps and now I just found 2 mating in my hair. My hair is very thick. I reckon one of my mates has a realllll bad case and keeps passing them on to me. God help me.
- —Guest I WANT TO MURDER THEM
can't stand it
- I've had lice for a while and they just won't go away! It's so hard cause when the girls are getting ready you have to do your hair before you go over just so they don't find out. I urge all parents to be on top of this cause I know my parents aren't and I have to do most of it myself. I just want to get a proper haircut from the hair dressers.
- —Guest J
it keeps coming home
- Our step-daughter visits every other weekend. She brought lice home with her 5 weeks ago. Every time her mother says she is clean and she comes to visit I have found more on her head. We were all clean up until 2 days ago. My oldest son had it. We shaved his head and crazy cleaned the house. He is now free. I went to be checked this morning and found out I have it. I am 9 months pregnant due any day. We are trying a natural method of tea tree oil, eucalyptus oil, olive oil and shampoo. Wish me luck because the chance of my newborn getting it can be high. Just when you think you are in the clear watch out. My advice is if you have children between split homes as much as it stinks to not see them, ensure that they have been taken to a health department for a initial check and then a 7 day check before allowing them in your home again. It's too hard to keep dealing with it especially when you have other children that suffer.
- —Guest Ruth
Listen Up
- My mom's a hygiene freak. It all started when my dad found out I had lice. He nearly burned my head with constant shampoo treatment, but my mom found out. She went hysterical. She checked all my stuff and even after making put the shampoo several more times, cutting away a lot of my hair, combing my scalp with her own comb (tht grossed me out a lot), and washing all my things, and nit picking for half an hour, even though there ain't nothing left, I still have to shave zero, and so will she by next week. My sis doesnt have to do it, neither does my dad. Lice are hell, and for all people with questions, lice can't fly neither can they jump careful, any hair drops anywhere with an egg on it could infect people, and its okay if you find white stuff after treatment, those are the corpses basically. Shaving zero is by far the best one, and remember, lice prefer cleaner and longer hair; they are parasites and they suck your blood.
- —Guest anonymous
WHAT!!! LICE
- i got lice i was so mad at my cousin becasue she gave them to me because we shared a room i was about 5 my mom just combed my hair a lot but she also killed my cousin lice i was so happy cuz i have super long hair and curly so it gets tanged a lot so when she combed my hair was always messy it took days and a lot of hard work but she did use a shampoo to kill him i was so happy that i cried now i am so happy i never got them again if i ever got those monsters again i will cut all my hair.but i proplaly wont get them anytime soon
- —Guest pinko
IM FREAKED OUT!!!
- i went to camp and aparently i just found out that the friend i hung out with the whole week had headlice!!! So my mom checked my hair and we only found 2 adults and alot of eggs. do i need to put my stuff in bags? is it really necessary? (Note from Rod: Finding adult lice means you're infested. Read the associated article on how to get rid of lice.)
- —Guest guest katey
headlice- ARGH
- i caught headlice from one of the kids at school, and we dont know who. my hair was really long and thick, down to my waist. anyway we tried everything, shampooing, combing, all of the home remedies. eventually i just asked my mum to buzz my hair like my brothers, and now there are no more problems, and cos i am a teenager no-one even bats an eyelid about my lack of hair. so if in doubt, just cut their hair, it works, and its really fast, hair grows
- —Guest helen
I hate lice!!!
- ok it started from my grandma cause she didn't care if I got lice so she came into my house and used my brush she checked my head later on and there were a ton of nits. I cried so hard. I delt with it for a while these little buggers survived 10 different shampoos and sprays. It's like I am about to go crazy cause I am only 9. It stinks and when I got rid of it my friend ended up giving it to me again but the thing that works is the robI comb my mom went online and saw the robI comb it works really good it shocks the bugs so they die. Hopefully that worked because if it doesnt then I am doomed and actually might end up shaving my head! I AM TIRED OF THE LICE!!!
- —Guest cryer110
nitzz
- i used to have nits my mum said and my head used be itchy all the time i used nit stuff from my pharmacy and my mummy combed my hair now when my brother checks my hair i have little hard brown things and im scared because my hair still gets itchy in places and my mum says its just dead eggs and dry scalp so what is it??
- —Guest katrina bickerstaff
Someone told me to check!
- Just now, my best friend texted me to say that "Two girls in the kid's play have lice! Your sister has been hanging around them all the time. if you hugged one of them, get your mom to check you!!!" I am scared so badly right now.. i have read all of these things, and how i'm supposed to clean EVERYTHING!!! it's 12:20 at night here. I need to be checked pronto! I haven't noticed my head kind of itching since i looked on line at the symptoms. It's probably just a psychological thing... but i have really long hair and i don't want to deal with that! i'm sorta taking a comb to see if any come out around my ears, but i can't seem to find any. i guess i should change my bed sheets. i don't want my friends to think i'm disgusting for having lice, (if i have them, please pray for me!!!) because i am in theater and i am currently helping out with a kid's daycamp and don't want to give any of the kiddo's lice! my hair is down to my bum, and curly and blonde! i sure hope i don't have any! pray!
- —Guest Jessica
Getting rid of lice again
- I am a mother of three. we all have lice, not sure where it came from, but I tried using nix, and combing out the nits. It worked for a couple of days. Then we all started itching again. I washed all of our blankets and vacuumed the carpet. I left all the toys and things that coulnt be washed alone. I'm afraid that I missed something and that is why we have it again, i have no clue.
- —Guest Melanie
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