Head Lice: Child
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Lice
Asked by B.B. from Dayton
on January 18, 2010
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Every time I get my granddaughter she has lice. What should I do about this problem?
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- I am usually not one to promote specific products, but I will recommend the Fairy Tales Hair Care Products! They are all natural, organic hair care products for childr...
- If she is bringing it from home she needs to have everything washed in hot water or put in bags and sealed for 10 days and use a spray too. Hair washing with lice sham...
- I would suggest talking with her parents about treating her and their own heads and EVERYTHING in their house with lice medicine. I would also suggest that once they ...
Lice
Asked by A.L. from Dallas
on July 25, 2008
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Does anyone have a remedy for lice. The rid is not working for me and i cannot afford to miss more work
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- A., Try a product call PRONOT. It is usually right next to the rid. When I was about 15 I had lice so bad that it took 7 treatments to get rid of it. We always used r...
- We had an outbreak when my daughter was in 2nd grade. She kept getting it and eventually the Rid quit working. Go see your doctor. There is a prescription for just ...
- A few years ago my daughter kept getting lice over and over, nothing was working. Then the pediatrician told me to coat her hair and scalp with Vasolene (or mayo, b...
Lice
Asked by D.V. from Spartanburg
on March 6, 2008
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hello all. i found lice in my 3 year old head. i cant believe it. it is so gross to me and embarrassing. anyway i tried washing his head in the lice shampoo and combin...
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- I have five children, they are all in school. I have done nothing but fight lice since we moved to the area. I have done everything, but what I found to work the abs...
- Hello D., First of all one thing that they do not tell you but it is very dangerous to use that shampoo on a child so young. I have been doing a lot of research on...
- I agree with everything she said. Also, you can use Tea-Tree shampoo once or twice a week in lue of regular shampoo as a deterrent. Please EVERYONE, do not use the RID...
Lice!
Asked by J.W. from San Antonio
on June 1, 2009
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If you have had experiences with lice, I would like to know what treatments worked best for you and how long it took to get child back to being lice-free. We are still...
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- Hi, I have been through this before as well... We got rid of them in one day! I used some all natural shampoo stuff, but the real trick is to sit down with a towel, ...
- Hi J., I recently experience my first battle with head lice. All the info the kid's school would give is to just shampoo with lice killing shampoo and follow up in...
- Good morning, I'm sorry your having to go through this. I got them AGAIN years back and I have SUPER thick hair so living on my own, noone was going to take hours ...
Lice
Asked by T.M. from Philadelphia
on March 19, 2009
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We have our first bout of lice :( I have spent hours doing the girls hair with the lice shampoo and comb. I cannot for the life of me get out all of the eggs! Is th...
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- Unfortunately, my daughter had lice last summer. I only found 2 bugs but the nits would not go away! I treated her hair but the nits were still there. My mom read t...
- My daughter has had lice twice, first in third grade, and then fifth. The first time, after doing research on the net, I realized she had it for 2-3 months (I felt lik...
- Grab ahold of the eggs between your fingernails and pull out - this seems to work better than the comb. There is discussion about whether or not the shampoo kills the ...
Lice!!!!!
Asked by L.C. from Duluth
on October 12, 2010
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Oh yuk!!! I found out that a little girl got sent home with lice in my daughter's preschool class!! As soon as my daughter and I got home, I tossed all her clothes in...
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- Head lice isn't a really big deal,it's something everyone gets. I recommend that you go to: headlice.org Read the information there. There are LOTS and LOTS ...
- Well, my daughter came home from a friend's house with lice and it was horrible to get rid of, so, just tell your daughter not to share hats, coats, mittens, etc. You ...
- Believe it or not -- use cetaphil gentle cleanser as a shampoo. my pharmacist told me. He even threw out all the chemical shampoos!
Lice !!
Asked by F.C. from Los Angeles
on September 12, 2011
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I have never had any problems with my kids and lice, but recently I’ve notice my daughter scratching her head a lot whenever she at Basket Ball practice, I’m think...
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- I went through that about a month ago - I was expecting her to look like Medusa, but the lice she has looked like tiny pieces of lint. I didn;t see eggs, which I've h...
- I hope your daughter just has an itchy head! Definitely check her immediately. My daughter had an itchy head back in June, and after a couple of days, I decided just...
- Could just be her head is itchy from sweating while playing basketball.
Lice
Asked by M. from New York
on November 1, 2009
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Anyone know of any natural method that kills lice and nits with proven results? Also, where do you start?? the kids, the bedding, the furniture, the rugs?
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- Boy! I wish this many people had responded when I asked for advice! We just got over this!I found no comb that worked well enough. I think you have to pull the nits/eg...
- I did almost exactly what Jill O did, except instead of the olive oil, I found a natural treatment online called Licenix. It has peppermint oil in it, I think, and wo...
- Warm olive oil. Smooth it into their hair focusing on the roots, put a shower cap on and leave it in overnight. It smothers the lice and nits to death. Animals etc. ca...
Lice
Asked by C.M. from Longview
on March 8, 2009
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OKay my son has Lice, I am sick of it, and nothing I do seems to do works. Short of shaving his head any better Ideas that HAVE worked for ya'all. Mayonaise, I'v e tri...
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- If he is young or you have more kids, consider buying a Robi comb. It cost me $25 at Walmart but so worth it and they won't fight you near as much. It uses a battery a...
- I know you said you tried mayonaise but did you let it set for a couple of hours on the head in a shower cap to let it really saturate the hair i did this every sunday...
- Thanks to an extended family camping trip, both of my girls got lice and the only thing that worked after shampoos and sprays, was coating their head completely in vas...
Lice
Asked by M. from Detroit
on September 18, 2007
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My 3 year old has lice, I have tried all the shampoos that they sell at the store and yet I can't get rid of them. I have washed everything in the house a thousand ti...
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- Hello! Have you ever heard of Melaleuca products they are excellent? Some of their products contain Melaleuca oil (you may have heard of it as Tea Tree Oil).
- http://www.rmbarry.com/research/lice-melaleuca-oil.html Try that link. Someone sent it to me so I have no clue if it really works but maybe worth the google. L.
- When I was young and I got lice it took me forever to get rid of it. My hair was so thick that they always found somewhere to hide. My Mom was about ready to cut off...
