How to Get Rid of LICE/EGGS/NETS

There are services that will come to you to help if you want to pay for it.

http://www.lice-control.com/?gclid=CM6eqrCUjp4CFQkwpAodhm... is an example. Do a web search. This is an option that I haven't seen the other mothers mention. Just an alternative suggestion.

Hi Sue,

Welcome to the world of the pesky little creatures that lurk in your Childs classroom, bedroom, and every stuffed animal they ever had and......

Lice are not easy to get rid of because they multiply very rapidly..

Best treatment is the lice mister. Look on line. It was invented by several moms in Boston. Please be careful of over the counter treatments. They can be very toxic to your child and many times not effective.

Best bet get your Childs hair cut short. Many of the boys in our school came back with shaved heads; please do not do this to your girl!!! Ha no matter how many bugs you find. Get your self a looking glass and take the kid out in the sun. Order you lice mister on line ASAP so you have it for future.

We have come up with our remedy for the lice, use of the lice mister comb and olive oil.. The Comb is specially made with long teeth and very close together. Purchase a container that is used for hair coloring that has the little pointy tip on it, fill it with olive .The oil makes the comb go through the hair easier. Pick out each nit (be prepared this takes hours) Remember to treat every one in the house hold. It may be a good time to have you child start using her own brush that sits in its own drawer. The last thing you want to do is to tell your hubby when he gets home from work this evening is (honey please sit down right here in the light) so I can check your head for bugs!

Lice live thrive on clean heads and have a hard time living in oil areas. We leave the olive oil on over night with a shower cap to suffocate the pesky creatures. Remember to dispose of the nit and louse properly in a glass of water and down the toilet. If you toss them on the floor they will eventual make its way back on your Childs head. Lice can live over 78 hours off a host. Keep all stuffed animals in a sealed plastic bag for 2 weeks before returning them to your child.

My hubby and I now laugh about it but as you know it is not a fun process. Feel grateful you are not in the school in Huntington Beach that sent home 76 children last a few months ago with lice...

Please inform the parents of your Childs playmates and the school your child attends so every one can be on the look out for the lice...

Sita Helms
Executive Director
Helping Hand Worldwide
Adovacates for children, Seniors and Military

My friend recently went through the same situation with her 3yr old daughter. She told me that she tried all the medicated products and none of them worked. She finally read online that Mayonnaise works and sure enough, that was the only product that worked. (the mayo was left on her head overnight)
Try Mayonnaise and good luck!

Years ago when I was a student living with other young girls who worked with school children, one of them brought home lice. i don't know how it is now, but then (10 years ago), the lice shampoo was not cutting it. After three shampoos and still live lice, we resorted to an old fashioned remedy and it worked like a charm. She doused her head in Vaseline for 4 hours! I think any oil would do the trick, olive oil, mayonnaise, veg. oil. It kills the live lice and then you just have to brush the knits out. Of all the people who caught the lice from my roommate, we tracked it to only those individuals who had shared a bed with her. So focus on bedding. The rest of us 4 roommates did not get it.

Not sure if anyone told you, but for the next two weeks or so, you'll have to go through her hair every night and pick out any white eggs you find. If they take hold and hatch again, you'll go through this whole process again. We were lucky someone taught us how to do it, and we did it religiously for the two weeks, and it was finally all gone. BUt they look like white dandruff, only they STICK to the hair. So you have to exercise a lot of patience, and be diligent about sitting still and taking them out. Don't just think brushing the hair will do it. Every time I thought I was done cleaning her hair, her dad would sit with her, and say "well, you missed one... and another.... and another..." and go through her whole head again. You're lucky that she's not school age. The school nurse inspects the child when they return, and if they find any at all, they make you take the child out again and do it right. She's the one who told us how to remove them. Good luck!

Oh, and yeah, we used vinegar and olive oil to wash her hair. Really interesting process. I laughed and told my daughter it was like making salad dressing in her hair. I guess it "chokes" the bugs out.

See if you can figure out where she got it, and stay away til they clear it up. Or don't go there at all. Mine got it from a popular pizza parlour with the ball pits and arcade. They were in the balls. We've never been back.

My daughter had lice last week and I have dealt w/this many times. Put MAYO and Olive OIL all over the scalp and hair, wrap in a plastic bag/shower cap or saran wrap (suffocates the live ones) and then have them sleep in it. Got up early, washed it all out, put conditioner in the hair and combed it through in the bathtub with a very fine lice comb. The conditioner/mayo, etc loosened a lot of the nits (which MUST all be gotten rid of) and a lot of them got combed out that way. When the hair is mostly dry, take your child outside in the sun, comb through head with lice come, fingerbails and remove EVERY nit you can see (they stick to the hair shaft close to the head usually! That's the worst part but it HAS to be done or it just keeps coming back. Never had luck with the chemical shampoos. They are very drying and disgusting and don't help with the nit removal. Try the above. It always works for us.

Well I hope I can still help. I got lice when I was 7 or 8 years old. I had (actually still have) thick long hair. The remedy that helped my mom take the lice out was beer. She bought a 6-pack and and just poured it over my hair. It smells terrible but you actually see the lice and nits fall out. Afterwards she combed my hair with a fine tooth comb then she picked out what was left which wasn't much. Hope this helps :]

I here were you are coming from Sue. When my two daughters when elmentary school they got lice several times, but were never sent home. I never used RID, my grandma and mom once told me to use"Listerine" on their hair. And believe me it does get rid of the lice. You just pour so much (depending how much hair and the age of the child) wrap in a towel for about 20-30 minutes(it might sting a little). After it soaks in the hair rinse off the hair like if you are rinsing shampoo or conditioner.(believe me you will see the lice falling out when rinsing) Blow dry the hair the hotest the child can tolerate. After you need to still look through the hair to make sure you got them all out. Her hair will smell like Listerine, but it will be clean and shiny. And of course wash everything in hot water, even throw away the combs, brushes or any pony holders the child might have used.
My daughters went through a period that it seemed they had lice every other week.
I work at a school and that is the advice I give the parents when their child has lice. Of course they are surprised when I tell them to use Listerine, but it works and I highly recommend it.

Get a spray bottle and fill with vinegar it stinks but it works. Saturate the hair and it somehow releases the eggs. Then comb them all out. I have also heard olive oil works but didn't want to deal with the greasy hair. Good luck. This to shall pass!!

You have to re-treat it in about 7-10 days with Rid X and they also make a spray for furniture. Wash her hair with tea tree oil shampoo and comb it with the little fin toothed comb in the Rid X kit...I have heard that kills them. Be sure to wash all your bedding and clothing in the hottest water possible. Throw away all her stuffed animals that she sleeps with because they may have them. Don't let her share combs, brushes, clothing, hats with other kids. Ever...

You can also google "lice treatment" and you should find additional help there. Lice can happen with anyone, so don't be ashamed.

Best of luck.

I haven't dealt with this yet but I understand that tea tree oil is a great deterrent and the lice wont return to a head with it on it. I've also seen children's anti-lice hair products that contain tea tree oil so it likely works. Trader Joe's carries a tea tree shampoo and conditioner and I'm sure there are many others out there as well.

Good Luck with it!!

J.

I wish I could help you. I'm dealing with the same thing right now. It's been two and a half weeks, and I've treated my daughter multiple times, washed, vacuumed, combed, she slept with mayo and a shower cap on one night, etc. The problem is I just can't get the nits out of her hair. They are so stuck to it. I can comb and comb (and I've tried different lice combs) and the little buggers don't want to come out of hair. Then those eggs will hatch 7-10 days later and the cycle continues. If you got all the nits (eggs) out of your daughter's hair and you cleaned all the loose ones up, then you hsould be okay. But how do you get the eggs off the hair? Would you mind sharing?

I have heard using Tea Tree shampoo is good. Check on the web and see if you see anything on it. When I heard about lice at my son's daycare, I washed his hair everynight with that shampoo (you can get it at Whole Foods.)

Ugggh! This is the worst! We just dealt with this recently. I did the RID stuff the first day. Then, the next day I did a treatment where you put listerine all over the hair until saturated and cover with a shower cap. You leave that on for two hours. Then you rinse it out and saturate with vinegar, cover with the shower cap and rinse out after two hours. Then you comb through the hair with the lice comb. Then, shampoo with suave green apple shampoo and condition with suave coconut conditioner. Lavender oil mixed with water and sprayed on the hair every morning is supposed to keep you from getting them again from other kids. And, tea tree oil (like 4 drops) in your shampoo each time you shampoo is supposed to help too. From the research I did it looks like your less likely to get them if you dry your hair with a dryer and if you use a hot curler or strait iron on your hair. The more product you use the less likely you are to get them as well. You'll find lots of suggestions on the internet if you do a search, but this is what worked for me. Good luck! I know, its miserable!