Second Lice Treatment- 4 Hour Oil

Yeah, I do lots of natural things - clean only with vinegar and baking soda. Eat grass fed beef. Buy organic fruits.

Nix. $20. 10 minutes. Life cycle broken. And yep, they may be like us, but a lot smaller. A lot. I don't have the patience to screw around with weeks of prolonged treatment.

ETA: Having used Nix 4 times over 10 years, I can tell you we have never had a reinfestation or a need to retreat. The lice I find post treatment have always been dead and the nits come off easily. If it doesn't work, they play dead pretty convincingly. That's a new one on me.

Then again, I follow the directions, and I comb meticulously both before and after treatment with a good quality metal lice comb. Plus, knowing that lice is a regular occurrence in schools, I check my kids' heads regularly and proactively, so I catch things early. Nevertheless, you're talking about a second treatment - we've never had to do that with the walgreens version of Nix that we buy. Ever.

Every parent should be checking their own child's head each week. If thy did then perhaps head lice wouldn't be at epidemic proportions across the USA.

Tea Tree Oil works. Mix some water and a few drops of it in a small (8oz or less) spray bottle and spritz the kids hair as you brush it in the morning. Then they probably won't get lice to begin with.

Lice MD is the only shampoo that we've used and it works. It does NOT have pesticides in it. The pesticides that are in the others come from Ragweed which I'm allergic to. You have to be careful what you put on kids skin, it does absorb to some extent.

Go to headlice.org

You'll always find a lot of different advice when it come to lice but in my own experience I don't do any of the old wives tale stuff that gets passed around.

I wash the kiddo's hair with regular shampoo and then use a good conditioner. I brush out the tangles and rinse. Leave dripping wet.

I sit the kiddo down lower than me and I go through their hair. Lice are like people. They breathe air. When they get wet they get cold and they don't move very fast.

So when the hair is dripping wet they basically sit there waiting for you to pick them up and drop them into a glass/bowl of water.

I go through inch sections and take my time. I look through magnifying head gear so I can see every critter. I pull the egg, has a black center, off the shaft of hair and drop it in the water too. I take my time and spray the hair to get it drippy wet often. If you can work fast enough you can get the whole head before it gets any drier.

Then you do it again the next day and the next until you don't see any nits, black centers, or any live bugs.

Washing the bedding and drying it works. Vacuuming the car seats, couches, chairs, and anywhere there is fabric the kiddo had laid down is what you do.

Sprays and stuff they sell don't work. If it's bad for lice it's bad for people because they are a lot like us.

Make sure you vacuum the furniture and your car too!

Nix is pesticide that is better left of any one's head. Please consider buying a lice comb a checking your child's hair every day. The fun thing about the over the counter lice treatments is that they are making lice able to survive the pesticide.

If you did find live bugs on the second treatment, are you sure that your child was not expose so someone with lice?

There are naturals sprays that work as deterrents as well. Spray your child's head every morning before school.

We had it 4 times last year, so I know what you mean. I did have to redo it when I found live ones the second time, but not when I didn't. I used it all, and the one we had luck with was the Fairy Tales line. I got it at Ulta and it worked super! I also still use the lice away spray that is for the hair and it has tea tree, rosemary, and something else to make the lice not like the smell. So far the school has had a breakout, but no lice here!