I don't know if I have nits or dandrff! *pokes username* They're really small, get off easily, just got them today, and they're kind of seethrough but I saw them flaking down. HELP! Nits or dandruff? :(

You know about it if it was nits!

When you get them off on the comb, you can see them moving.

It sounds like it's just dandruff or a bit of dermatitis on your scalp. My daughter gets a patch of this and it's really itchy and flaky.

She got some betnovate from the dr. It stings like crazy when you first put it on, but it does the trick really well!

To help you, here is a picture of a nit feeding (http://images.scotsman.com/2006/01/28/en2801borb.jpg)

Hope this helps?

get some white paper, comb your hair with a fine tooth comb over the paper. You can soon tell what it is. Nits dont always move but they are very obvious.

To help you, here is a picture of a nit feeding (http://images.scotsman.com/2006/01/28/en2801borb.jpg)

Hope this helps?

LOL, nice one!


Jayne

Aren't nits the eggs, rather than the lice themselves?

Anyway, the eggs are little hard white-ish blobs that stick to your hair. I suppose you could mistake them for bits of skin (dandruff) if you didn't look carefully.

There's no way you'd mistake the lice for dandruff though! :D



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I take it you're not planning on hanging around for long on here? If you are you're going to regret that username...

You know about it if it was nits!

When you get them off on the comb, you can see them moving.

It sounds like it's just dandruff or a bit of dermatitis on your scalp. My daughter gets a patch of this and it's really itchy and flaky.

She got some betnovate from the dr. It stings like crazy when you first put it on, but it does the trick really well!

THANK YOU!! I was so worried because I actually though they were nits. But they don't move.

I take it you're not planning on hanging around for long on here? If you are you're going to regret that username...

Haha nope, because everyone here sounds like an adult and I'm 12.

To help you, here is a picture of a nit feeding (http://images.scotsman.com/2006/01/28/en2801borb.jpg)

Hope this helps?

HAHAHA! You got me XD!

Aren't nits the eggs, rather than the lice themselves?

Anyway, the eggs are little hard white-ish blobs that stick to your hair. I suppose you could mistake them for bits of skin (dandruff) if you didn't look carefully.

There's no way you'd mistake the lice for dandruff though! :D



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YES. Because lice are greenish brownish and have six legs. Ew.
But if I have nits I don't want to wait around until they're lice!
Thanks though :)!

get some white paper, comb your hair with a fine tooth comb over the paper. You can soon tell what it is. Nits dont always move but they are very obvious.

I'm going to try it!

THANK YOU SO MUCH for an obvious way to tell! I wasn't really sure whether they could move or not but I'll try!

Nits are eggs that are glued to a hair and are difficult to get off they do not move.
Lice hatch out from the eggs and they hatch very quickly and witin 48 hrs you can have a lot of lice.
The school nurse said if you brush your hair every day you should eventually have no lice because bruushing breaks their legs and with broken legs they do not mate!!
hazel

Nits are eggs that are glued to a hair and are difficult to get off they do not move.
Lice hatch out from the eggs and they hatch very quickly and witin 48 hrs you can have a lot of lice.
The school nurse said if you brush your hair every day you should eventually have no lice because bruushing breaks their legs and with broken legs they do not mate!!
hazel

It's been two days and nothing hatched, plus these get off easily. But thank you for the tip if I ever do get lice! :D

Try to squash the flakes between yhur thumb nails if there is a quite loud defined crack yhu've got nits its dandruff it will just squash and no noise will be made.

Try to squash the flakes between yhur thumb nails if there is a quite loud defined crack yhu've got nits its dandruff it will just squash and no noise will be made.

OMG!!!!! THANK YOU!!!! I was at school getting my head checked, and they said that I have nits, so I went home and my mom put the treatment in, but while she was checking my hair and combing it, all that was in my hair was dandruff, which I have had SINCE I WAS BORN!!!! We have gotten a treatment for my dandruff, but now we know FOR SURE that I do not have nits!!!! :clap::banana:

OMG!!!!! THANK YOU!!!! I was at school getting my head checked, and they said that I have nits, so I went home and my mom put the treatment in, but while she was checking my hair and combing it, all that was in my hair was dandruff, which I have had SINCE I WAS BORN!!!! We have gotten a treatment for my dandruff, but now we know FOR SURE that I do not have nits!!!! :clap::banana:

Congratulations - the city is yours! :)

I don't know how anyone could get confused between the two tbh. If you've got nits you must have got something that laid the nits, i.e. head lice. And though they are tiny you can see them with the naked eye and they have legs and walk around.

Let me suggest something to you for your dandruff in any case. You can get rid of it very easily - but don't bother with so called "medicated" shampoos like "Head & Shoulders" or "Vosene" (do they still make Vosene? I used to like the smell of it).

The best treatment for dandruff (in my humble flaky opinion) is Nizoral. It's a pink shampoo lotion that you can buy only from a pharmacy. It has the active ingredient - ketoconazole - which was, at one time, a prescription only medicine used to treat systemic fungal infections. It's no longer used for that, but it is a very, very effective shampoo for dandruff.

It's expensive - maybe £7 or £8 for a 100ml bottle. But you don't need to use it very often. A couple of times a week for the first couple of weeks and your dandruff will be gone. After that, once a month or once every 6 weeks should suffice.

Time to get out your black dresses again maybe?:)

This sure beats mock or ball.

Dandruff most certainly you would know if you had nits and eggs. Its nothing like youv discribed.

if you have lice rub sugar in your hair.it rots their teeth and stops them biting you

wash your hair with white vinigar,not only will it kill nits it will give your hair a wonderful shine i used it on my kids when they were at school