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i cant get rid of nits ive tried everything on my daughter to get rid of the damn things, next step is shaving her hair off any forum members give me some ideas please

Never had the damn things, but I heard that brushing conditioner through the hair with a fine tooth comb is a good way to get rid of them.

you can buy some comb that shocks them without hurting you kid ask in pharmacist about all treatments!

report it to school cause she proabably gettin them from another kid:D

Originally posted by savbaby
you can buy some comb that shocks them without hurting you kid ask in pharmacist about all treatments!

report it to school cause she proabably gettin them from another kid:D

School's out! :thumbsup:

tried conditioner to no avail, i think she has picked them up from school before they broke up and only manage to get the nits out and not the eggs and now the eggs have hatched out

My son went through a period of getting nits frequently from someone at primary school (damn parents who couldn't care less...grrr :rant: ) and the stuff they recommended did absolutely nothing (the lice get immune eventually).

I found treating his head with dilute tea tree oil and combing with a nit comb at least once a day got rid of them (at least until he got them again!!). Combing over a white surface is a good idea, as you can then kill any living ones, and keep an eye out for whether they're getting less in numbers!! Even if you kill all the adults, if there's still eggs (the actual nits) attached to the hair, they'll hatch out and start the cycle again. :(

Remember to treat everyone in the family though, and wash anything like bedclothes on as hot a wash as they'll take.

arg, my head's itching now, just talking about it!

We know what you are going through Louise :(
Me and kblade have been battling the little f****** in our daughters hair for ages.
NONE of the lotions work and Tea Tree shampoo did nothing at all. Once eggs have been laid your in big trouble. The eggs hatch at different intervals. If you relax for more than 3 days your back to square one.
We have to wet comb our daughters hair every three days. We have a bowl with freshly boiled water in it and scold the little sh**$ to death! :rant:

It never seems to end and while it doesn't bother our daughter, it still doesn't stop us feeling guilty in some way :(

Bring back the nit nurse!! maybe we should start that campaign! My kids kept getting nits a few months ago , it was a nightmare, to the point many parents seemed to have just given up sorting it out.So the kids just keep getting re-infested.Also many seem to think thier child couldn't possibly have nit's, so don't even bother checking.I don't think kids should be aloud at school untill thier nit problem has been sorted out.I don't like having to use chemicals on my kid's, but I don't think it can do too much harm occassionaly , but it's infuriating doing it on a regular basis, because of irresposible parents.
We bought one of those electric things, it was useless, don't waste your money.I found using a chemical treatment shampoo from the doctors kills the majority.Then for the next couple of weeks at bath time add tea tree oil to conditioner, use plenty and comb through untill no more nits come out.Combing apparantly breaks the legs of ones that don't get removed , therefore they can't get to each other to mate.I finnaly got rid of them this way.
I also bought a tea tree spray in de-tangling conditioner ( from good old "home bargains"-it's going to sell out now proberbly!) which deters nits from re-infesting.I use this every morning before scool, and has so far done the trick.

I have one *currently* infallible method - bleach your hair! That's a little extreme for some, so, you could try Jerome Russells Peroxide shampoo, available at Lloyds Chemist and probably various others. The shampoo doesn't actually do much except vaguely lighten your hair with repeated and prolonged use. Short term few minute use seems to do nothing except kill critters.
If that's still too extreme, buy the peroxide powder sachets, mix with min 10 parts water to one part peroxide (an old washing up liquid bottle is good) and use as a rinse on the scalp, leave it in for a few minutes then rinse out and comb thoroughly with a piece of sellotape on hand to stick the blighters to. (The bottle should last for all treatments)
Repeat every day for 10 days ish.
It works for me and my colleagues ( we work with kids), I actually do this as a preventative method cause I've never had them.
The only trouble is watching out for peroxide sensitivity in your kids. A mate of mine does it on her dark haired kids and they are fine - it doesn't bleach it, in fact they only had to do it once and they've been free of them for 2 years now. Just please be careful of sensitive scalps.
I hope it helps you.

We have used delacet, which I thought at first didn't work then a couple of days later .......no nits!!!

Beware of using chemicals on children and you, your bodies absorb them which is never good.

http://www.delacet.com/

If anyone wants a natural nit treatment recipe too, send me your email address and I will forward it to you.

Combing reguarly is the best option though.

im now itching all the time but ive checked my blokes hair and mine and even my son whos got a skinhead and we havent got them poor love i feel so sorry for her. she doesnt need them on top of her other health problems. i got fed up with informing the school and i agree the nit nurse should be brought back into school.(good old days) ive tried tea tree even over the counter stuff(lyclear,permiderm, full marks) and even washing her hair every 2 days it doesnt help that she got curly hair(how cum nits love that hair) and to see a 4 year old itching away isnt easing my mind she has now sore in her head where she scratched away in her sleep. ive warned her im going to shave her hair off and now she panics (bad mum) thinking im going to shave it off when im checking her hair

Nothing worked for my kid at all as was always getting them,

the derbac liquid and the full marks mousse did not work.

Then we saw a new suff that is very much like oil. its called full marks solution,and it is top stuff.this got rid of all the nits in one go.and i was shocked how well it worked.and the bottol last for ages even tho i only need one treatment.

I give that a blast and see.also use tea tree oil and shampoos this stop it too.

They is anouther way too that you can spray on the hair when they go back to school or out playing with kids or just to get rid of them.and i use this to prevent them wile she at school

Go to any herbal store and ask for quassia bark ( cost 80p 30g bag but get a lot).
you then take a spoon full into cold water over night.sive the water into a spray bottol and spray onto the hair.this kills the nits as well as prevent more and no smell.100% natural too so wont harm ur kids.

that 'full marks' did the job in my house

Send her along to a forum meet. There are so many nit pickers on here they will get rid of them in no time. :clap: :clap: :clap:

Originally posted by louise170419
tried conditioner to no avail, i think she has picked them up from school before they broke up and only manage to get the nits out and not the eggs and now the eggs have hatched out You need to do the conditioner treatment, smothering the hair thickly in neat conditioner, work it in, and leave for about 30 minutes, several times, about once a week, until all the headlice have gone (it's best to use a cheap very thick supermarket conditioner, rather than an expensive brand name).

Another thing you could try is tea tree oil or shampoo.

Other than that, it's a trip to the chemist to buy expensive chemical shampoo.

My Dad bought an electric nit comb, when my eldest was repeatedly catching them from the untreated at school he lent it to us, I used it alongside the derbac m and conditioner then we gave him the skinhead. Although hes the odd one out in the house with the short hair, he's not had nits for ages.
Try the electric comb I think you can buy them at most chemists

If you are using a non-chemical method such as wet-combing or conditioner, you must use a proper fine nit comb, do it every 3 days without fail for a period of at least 2 weeks.

Be persistant!

If new adults get the chance to lay new eggs you are just going to start the cycle all over again (another 2 weeks).

I tried everything when my daughter got nits. Special 'electric' comb didn't work but didn't want to use any chemicals after all they are based on DDT :wow:

Found Neem shampoo and never looked back. Can be bought from herbalists (they have it at the one in Meadowhall, Wicker Herbalists). It is expensive for the amount you get but believe me it works.

You use it as a normal shampoo but leave on for about 15 mins. During that time I go thro the hair with a fine tooth comb, just to make sure. It has never failed yet.

I suppose if you are well and truly infested then it may take more than one application.

When you know that there are nits going round, a good precaution is to comb thro t tree oil. Get the real thing from a pharmacy or Body Shop. DO NOT use the supposed t tree shampoos because they are either so dilute as to be ineffective or they contain no genuine t tree at all, just synthetics.

Originally posted by louise170419
i cant get rid of nits ive tried everything on my daughter to get rid of the damn things, next step is shaving her hair off any forum members give me some ideas please

my mam always washed our hair in viniger....i stunk like a chip shop for a day or two but it always worked

You do not need chemicals and artificial rubbish. Use the old method. Ash bark chopped really fine. Add about 1 cup of bark from an ash tree to two pints of water and bring to boil in a pan. Then let simmer until half the water has boiled away. Sieve off the bark and the liquid you have left let cool and then apply to your hair wetting it thoroughly. Leave to dry.

This also has the wonderful effect of softening the hair and making it really nice to feel.

So far the people who have tried this have reported great success. Somehow it stuns the headlice and they just drop out. It only works on lice so you need to repeat applications over a week or two using one application three times a week.

If you are not sure about how to grind up the ash bark you can acquire it at a herbalist or The Shades Shop on Langsett Road.

Dragon

Don't know whether this will be of help--

The school nurse told me to brush my hair as the lice cling to the hairs with their legs.
The brushing breaks their legs and makes it so they don't mate
If they can't breed you may get rid
She said get into a routine of brushing the hair

hazel

Originally posted by hazel
Don't know whether this will be of help--

The school nurse told me to brush my hair as the lice cling to the hairs with their legs.
The brushing breaks their legs and makes it so they don't mate
If they can't breed you may get rid
She said get into a routine of brushing the hair

hazel

I wouldn't want to mate with a broken leg either Hazel :P

hiya
i use the electronic nit comb available at boots (about £20). My daughter has a scalp reaction to the chemicals and when I was getting rid and she kept getting reinfected it was a nightmare. I still use the comb every other day just to make sure and touch wood we've not had any visitors since!

Originally posted by owdlad
I wouldn't want to mate with a broken leg either Hazel :P

yes I too thought it sounded quite effective :)

hazel

Try this..1 bottle of whiskey a hand full of sand..wet hair with whiskey..sprinkle on the sand...when the little bleeders get merry they stone each other to death:clap: :clap: :clap: :hihi: Cant stop scratchin me ed since i read this thread:loopy:

There's something called 'Nitty Gritty'. It's a comb available at chemists. Apparently not cheap but mums swear by it .

It's got a website www.nittygritty.co.uk

Have heard a few mums getting it on prescription after their tribe of kids getting nits for the hundredth time.

Originally posted by burnttoast
Try this..1 bottle of whiskey a hand full of sand..wet hair with whiskey..sprinkle on the sand...when the little bleeders get merry they stone each other to death:clap: :clap: :clap: :hihi: Cant stop scratchin me ed since i read this thread:loopy:

Almost worth catching the little swines, just to use that cure :D

My mam used to hit my nits very hard with a hammer. Did me no harm at all. :huh:

Originally posted by Ant
My mam used to hit my nits very hard with a hammer. Did me no harm at all. :huh:

That's nowt.

My mom used to boil our heads.:(

No nits, no zits, job done.:clap:

Originally posted by saxon51
That's nowt.

My mom used to boil our heads.:(

No nits, no zits, job done.:clap: You two are lucky my mam would beat me 23 hours a day and make me go to bed with no food and then i'd have to work down the pits for 12 hours a day if i had nits.

You might have a chance of shifting them now school has broken up.

If other kids are affected at the school which is likely, then all you can do is inform the school and all they usually do is send global letter out about it. Which means nothing is sure to get done and the problem just re-occurs.

You might have a chance of shifting them now school has broken up.

True. My mate's kids are always scrubbed up and squeeky clean, but no matter how many times they clear up the nit problem, they return within a week or so after they leap from the heads of certain scruffy urchins in the class whose parents can't be bothered to treat them.

My daughter has long thick curly hair and had anightmare with nits a year or so ago. I tried everything to no avail.

In the end I mixed neat tea tree oil, lavander oil and eucalyptus oil into some plain vegetable oil and soaked her dry hair in it. I left it for about an hour and all the little critters had come to the surface. As her hair was so slipy and oily, they all combed out no probs. I did this every couple of days for over a week and got rid of them all. Her hair was lovely and softand shiny too lol.

Lyclear.......cleared my daughters first time.......no messing!!

I checked my 3 (I do regulary ,but was prompted by this post) one of them was crawling with them , the other two were clear. Yukky.

use white vinigar, after an hour apply conditioner this helps the comb get through the hair, leave overnight, shampoo next day and comb again

Originally posted by peakma
Bring back the nit nurse!! maybe we should start that campaign! My kids kept getting nits a few months ago , it was a nightmare, to the point many parents seemed to have just given up sorting it out.So the kids just keep getting re-infested.Also many seem to think thier child couldn't possibly have nit's, so don't even bother checking.I don't think kids should be aloud at school untill thier nit problem has been sorted out.I don't like having to use chemicals on my kid's, but I don't think it can do too much harm occassionaly , but it's infuriating doing it on a regular basis, because of irresposible parents.


I totally agree!
Just toady we have started a petition at my childrens primary school to "BRING BACK THE NIT NURSE".
If anyone would like to start a petition at their school email me & I will pass on the details to you.

I've recently splashed out on one of these, as I was trying to use a plastic thing, with teeth missing, which really was ridiculous.Anyway this thing is fantastic by comparison, feels like good quality and will last and catches the blighters like a dream, I'm just going to use this regulary now, with tea tree oil and conditioner and give up on all the useless carcinagenic lotions.My partner has long thick curly hair, and it manages his hair, no problem.I'd certainly recomend this product, if anyone is going through the nit nightmare! It arrived the next day also.( by the way, I'm not the seller and i don't work for the company I just rate the comb!).
For some reason I can't post the direct link , but just look on ebay under- nitty gritty comb.

Originally posted by bonny
We have used delacet, which I thought at first didn't work then a couple of days later .......no nits!!!

Beware of using chemicals on children and you, your bodies absorb them which is never good.

http://www.delacet.com/

If anyone wants a natural nit treatment recipe too, send me your email address and I will forward it to you.

Combing reguarly is the best option though.

send me your email address as I have the recipe on file.

Originally posted by Ant
True. My mate's kids are always scrubbed up and squeeky clean, but no matter how many times they clear up the nit problem, they return within a week or so after they leap from the heads of certain scruffy urchins in the class whose parents can't be bothered to treat them.

head lice can't leap. They don't have the right kind of hind legs for jumping. They crawl quickly!

How many of you think it is about time that the nit nurse was brought back into schools?

I'm a little ignorrant of the reasons why they stopped the service, does anyone know?

I remember loving it when the nit nurse came, had long hair and usually tied up so when she came I could take my bobbles out and enjoy it.

I have so many notes coming from school saying there is an outbreak, it seems constant. ALso when I was at school you stayed home until your mum had sorted it out so there was more incentive for parents to get rid of them.

Shall we get a petition up? Or is there a good reason (apart from financial) why we don't have this service any longer?

In a letter we recieved from school a good few years back now we were asked to examine our childs head for "nits" as they could not do it as it was deemed as "assault".

Crazy :confused:

Originally posted by upholder
In a letter we recieved from school a good few years back now we were asked to examine our childs head for "nits" as they could not do it as it was deemed as "assault".

Crazy :confused:

Outrageous!!!

I'm going to write to my MP then. Surely a nurse taking blood samples is more of an assault? etc. etc.

I suspect it is more to do with costs than welfare. I would sign a permission slip for it to be done as I'm sure most parents would.

Yes i agree.They do need one in my daughters old school in shirecliffe.The amout of times and money i spent on her hair in that school with the nits is mad.But now we moved and she in a better school that does home checks every month and you got to send in a letter after two weeks of doing it.But yes in most schools that are haveing problems i think it wont hurt to bring a nurse in again.I mean it make me mad that you even can get free nit shampoo now from the chemist if you are on low income so i do not know why some parents dont act on it and do something about it.

Originally posted by bonny
I remember loving it when the nit nurse came, had long hair and usually tied up so when she came I could take my bobbles out and enjoy it.

I didnt have long hair, but it used to be great excuse to get out of lessons for a while :D used to go to the back of the queue and go back again.

Im sure they got rid of the nit nurses, mostly due to cost cutting.

I think the nit outbreaks were due to the nurses using the same nit comb on every child, they just got pased on to the next kid in line.

I never had a very good time at the nit nurse.....apart from the uniform that is :heyhey: :heyhey: :heyhey:

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Originally posted by poppins
I think the nit outbreaks were due to the nurses using the same nit comb on every child, they just got pased on to the next kid in line.

They didnt use combs in my time at school, they just ran their fingers through your hair.

Originally posted by owdlad
I never had a very good time at the nit nurse.....apart from the uniform that is :heyhey: :heyhey: :heyhey:

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Awe....Poor little buggar..bless his little cotton socks :cry:

upholder is right thats the reason they stopped the nit nurse coming in to schools. The same applies if a child falls over we are not supposed to comfort the child by cuddling them,and if they have cuts that need cleaning we have to clean them supervised by another member of staff.

Originally posted by stellstar
upholder is right thats the reason they stopped the nit nurse coming in to schools. The same applies if a child falls over we are not supposed to comfort the child by cuddling them,and if they have cuts that need cleaning we have to clean them supervised by another member of staff.

When I was teaching a few years ago, I discreetly took a parent aside and suggested she check her daughter's head when she got home. (Myself and my teaching assistant had observed that there were so many lice that they were visible at a distance!). Well you would have thought I had assaulted her! The shouting and fuss she made had to be seen to be believed. She also accosted my assistant in the car park - but she picked the wrong un there!

After that I stayed out of the nit debate, but had to check my own hair several times a week.

As for the cuddling, in these days of litigation you have to take care, but if you have someone with you at all times, you have to use your discretion about these things. Very small children actually come up and cuddle you sometimes, so there is little you can do about it.

I thought they scrapped the nit nurse to save money!

When I asked why the nit nurse no longer checked childrens hair,
the answer I was given was because it could be classed as a form of assault. No doubt financial reasons have played an important part as well. As for the cuddling I must admit that I do tend to comfort children when they are upset and need reasurance,
I will probably get told off now for admitting to this.

I never had nits until i moved to sheffield back in 2000. This could have been down to the fact I'm from Barnsley and the inbreeding could have put said nits off? :hihi:

We had a nit nurse, she was really nice. If a child was found to have nits they were discreetly segregated from teh rest of the class and sent home until they had rid of the lice.

Moon

The reason they went were because they were part of the governments cost cutting, to help the 3% min to 7% max growth needed to support our failing Capitalist system, the one one they call sustained growth (impossible!!!).

So dont expect them back unless we lose something from another sector. All so don't expect them back in municiple schools, the government are only interested in a certain % of pupils getting a good education, the rest I prefer to be dumbed down. If only we could get the media to make being educated feel "Cool", because as much as some people dont realise the media work with the government in trying to control the masses.

The above post is from me and not miketheking he did'nt logout,
and I just assumed that I was still logged in ooop's:loopy:

Eye, bring back nitty Nora the bug explorer:thumbsup:

Originally posted by miketheking
When I asked why the nit nurse no longer checked childrens hair,
the answer I was given was because it could be classed as a form of assault. No doubt financial reasons have played an important part as well. As for the cuddling I must admit that I do tend to comfort children when they are upset and need reasurance,
I will probably get told off now for admitting to this.

You can always get a permission slip signed from the parents. I did this, it went along the lines of:

We feel that human contact is fundamental to everyone especially in times of need, if your child is upset tec. we would like your permission to comfort them in the form of a hug when needed.

blah blah blah

Not heard of that one before brilliant idea. I will make a note of that and mention it at the next staff meeting.
:clap: :clap: :clap:

Just go and look inside your childrens' schools and see how many non-teaching staff are there today!!
.... but we cannot afford one nurse per district?

Used to love the nit nurse....... a free head massage...i used to feel sooooooo sleepy at school after.

Im sitting here reading this thread because I've caught the little blighters!

I presume they have come home from nursery via my grandson, but I didnt find any in his hair (he has a number 2 all over).

The lady in the chemist said check everyone in the family with conditioner and a comb but only treat the ones who are infested. This is news to me because I thought you always treated all the family. We cant treat daughter and baby because baby is only 10 weeks and daughter is breastfeeding anyway, so she will get conditioner treatment.

I am interested in the herbal treatments and will try them if this Full Marks stuff doesnt work. As soon as I found them this morning I dashed to the chemist!! Not only did one of the blighters fall out of my hair into the basin whilst I was brushing, but I found another two living in my hairbrush. Needless to say hairbrushes have been treated too.

I am also stripping all the beds. Taking no chances! :huh:

I still cant believe that after 40 plus years of lice free existence I have got them. I brought up my own kids and also taught infants and managed to escape them. :huh:

tea tree shampoo / conditioner
fine tooth comb through hair after conditioner and picking the little blighters out

and you can get one of those electric nit killing comb things

also one of the nit killing head shampoo things aswell
surely after all that they should all be gone

Im sitting here reading this thread because I've caught the little blighters!

I presume they have come home from nursery via my grandson, but I didnt find any in his hair (he has a number 2 all over).

The lady in the chemist said check everyone in the family with conditioner and a comb but only treat the ones who are infested. This is news to me because I thought you always treated all the family. We cant treat daughter and baby because baby is only 10 weeks and daughter is breastfeeding anyway, so she will get conditioner treatment.

I am interested in the herbal treatments and will try them if this Full Marks stuff doesnt work. As soon as I found them this morning I dashed to the chemist!! Not only did one of the blighters fall out of my hair into the basin whilst I was brushing, but I found another two living in my hairbrush. Needless to say hairbrushes have been treated too.

I am also stripping all the beds. Taking no chances! :huh:

I still cant believe that after 40 plus years of lice free existence I have got them. I brought up my own kids and also taught infants and managed to escape them. :huh:


yes change all bed clothes, cushion covers etc AFTER theyve gone, or theyll be back

also yes, do the whole family, not just the infected ones.....some may be lurking on the "uninfected"

The Nitty Gritty comb is now available on prescription, it tells you about it on their website, and theres a page you can print out for the doctor.
I got one off our doctor a couple of weeks ago,Had already bought one.
They are really good and gets most of them first time.I usually comb their hair whilst their in the bath, with loads of conditioner and a few drops of tea tree oil, and rinse the comb out in a jug, it's satisfying to see the little b*gg*ers at the bottom of the jug.
I passed on the info about getting the comb on prescription,( they cost £10. to buy, but really are worth it.) so hopefully most parents will get one and the overal problem should be reduced.

We have used delacet, which I thought at first didn't work then a couple of days later .......no nits!!!

Beware of using chemicals on children and you, your bodies absorb them which is never good.

http://www.delacet.com/

If anyone wants a natural nit treatment recipe too, send me your email address and I will forward it to you.

Combing reguarly is the best option though.

PM me with your email address if you want me tosend you the document/recipe

Think there's the odd one on this forum, will your treatment work for them as well?

Think there's the odd one on this forum, will your treatment work for them as well?

Napalm wouldn't rid us of them :P

Napalm wouldn't rid us of them :P


That's a cryin shame in'it

The best stuff ever is Derbac M but make sure you use loads of it.
However the main problem is your kid is clear but there are a few parents who don't care less.
So when using the conditioner method, after the first comb thru, your child goes to school with only eggs in there hair but then the child that never gets done passes the live ones back onto them, so you're continously back to square one.
As mentioned before we started a petition at our school about bringing back the nit nurse, hasn't had much effect but if other schools do the same & pass onto their MP you never know it may help.
At my daughters school they also have a bug busting fornight, where all kids are sent home with letters stating they are bug busting.
Parents are then supposed to go through their childs hair using the conditioning method on 4 seperate days over the fornight, stated by the school. When the fortnight is over the child takes there signed letter to school saying they've been bug busted & get a sticker which they wear with pride. Fantastic idea if all stick to it, perhaps some could suggest this at their schools.

What is the lifecycle of a louse? ie from egg laying to hatching to adulthood etc.

The reason I ask is that I have found them on myself (several), one on my grown up daughter, but none on my grandson. We thought our grandson had brought them into the house, but he has only been at nursery a week so Im not sure if he is the source.

We are going to speak to the health visitor tomorrow as my daughter has a very young baby and she is breastfeeding so cant use the Full Marks stuff I have got. We will probably opt for a natural option.

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ask me for it if you want it

Thank you very much for this Titian. I already have some of the essential oils in the house as I have used them for many different purposes.

My cousin sent a message that you could dilute tea tree oil with water and use as a spray before they go to school, as a repellant. I dont know if anyone has tried this method, but I might. It cant hurt, once we have got rid of the blighters.

PS I was astounded that Lloyds chemist charged me £2.99 for a plastic nit comb. I bought a plastic one as I thought it would be kinder to long hair than metal, but I am starting to think I should have got a metal one. What makes me laugh is that I paid less than this for the cats flea combs!!!

Thank you very much for this Titian. I already have some of the essential oils in the house as I have used them for many different purposes.

My cousin sent a message that you could dilute tea tree oil with water and use as a spray before they go to school, as a repellant. I dont know if anyone has tried this method, but I might. It cant hurt, once we have got rid of the blighters.

I do that as a back up. I do it after washing our hair then comb it through. You can also dilute that preparation (quite a lot) and use that. Seems to keep us nit free even if we look like a certain contracetive method!

You can actually use flee combs they are cheaper & just as good.
The best combs I've used are a pack of 2 from Morrisons costing 59p.
They don't last long but who cares at hat price. They also pick up all the eggs. They are that good that after using a couple of times they are no good as even the eggs get trapped to a point where you can't get them out. They are white so you can see the nits clearly.
Try them.

I have got them at the moment and it isn't the first time. Someone I babysit for has nits and ever since I found out my head has ben itching, I have checked and definately don't have them, but the thought alone was enough to make me scrath my head to peices. This isn't the first time this has happened either when ever nits are mentioned my head itches, does this happen to anyone elses?:huh:

I have got them at the moment and it isn't the first time. Someone I babysit for has nits and ever since I found out my head has ben itching, I have checked and definately don't have them, but the thought alone was enough to make me scrath my head to peices. This isn't the first time this has happened either when ever nits are mentioned my head itches, does this happen to anyone elses?:huh:

It's happened to me when my niece or my own children have had them. I only have to see one and my head feels as though it is alive - cue the next 3 or 4 days combing through with either conditioner or one of the electric combs and there's never anything there yet I feel as though my head is crawling with them.

It's very unsettling:)

I am scratching now! It is quite normal I think to imagine you have nits once you have heard them mentioned. But you have to remember - they only go for clean hair, so it is a compliment....of sorts!

Someone I used to do support work for was told by his GP that he had scabies, and me and my partner had to douse ourselves in a special lotion, and then wash every item of clothing/bedding that might have been in contact with the clothes I had worn when with him - it was like a laundry in our house, and we were scratching like anything (all in the mind). And then it turned out that he didn't have scabies after all. Which was good news, but...

Yes it happens every time we get a bug busting form from the school. I sit there and itch my head all the time wile im reading it. I remeber one time we had a talk about nits in school and how to get rid of them and i rember every parent in that room itching every time someone talk about nits bet people wonder and watching what familys was passing them on at that point.

Anybody had psychological nits?

I've met several in my lifetime & there's some very prolific ones post on this site :hihi:

When ever nits are mentioned my head itches, does this happen to anyone elses?:huh:

Yes! Another thing that gives me that crawly feeling is reading about the dust mites that are feeding on my eyelashes and skin flakes at this very moment.

Also, I had trouble eating for a couple weeks after studying the digestive system in Biology class. Don't really want a play-by-play of the process; I just want to enjoy my lunch.

Sometimes think it would be better if I just had nits at least I could get rid of them.

Well I used to get psychological nits when I was teaching. Once I actually bought a treatment and used it to satisfy myself! Ive just had the real thing though, and its a lot more itchy!

Yes it happens every time we get a bug busting form from the school. I sit there and itch my head all the time wile im reading it. I remeber one time we had a talk about nits in school and how to get rid of them and i rember every parent in that room itching every time someone talk about nits bet people wonder and watching what familys was passing them on at that point.

Same for me. Everytime we get the letter from school saying nits are on the rampage, I start scratching. Uncanny!

Omg, i have nits and i dont know what to do!!! Does anyone want to help me? :( :( :( :( :(

I have nits and i was wondering if anyone wanted to help me and tell me how to get rid of them? I hate having them so does anyone and i need help! Write back to me please x x x x

Anyone want to help me?

white vinegar is a good one, I use to cover my kidz hair in it, wrap a bag around the Hair and let it dry, then next morning shampoo it off, worked for my kidz

Coconut oil makes it unbearable for the lice which can then be comed out easily and swells the nits so that they also come out in a nit comb - you have to repeat this a few times but it works.

I used to use a robi comb which is also very effective and you can tell when lice are present 'cause you hear em being electricuted and the comb stops with the lice stuck to it - great little gadgets if used properly.

So i use the robi comb weekly to spot anything before it's had chance to multiply and now coconut oil as a secondary thing 'cause it also conditions hair beautifully.

you could also add a few drops of tea tree oil to some water in a pump action bottle and use as a repellent.

be careful with vinegar, the only vinegar that is safe for use on the skin is apple cider vinegar - won't go into why but its not good although it will probably be very effective against nits. vinegar is also 5% acetic acid so this will give you some idea as to why it is bad being left on the hair.

babs

When I get nits, my sweety kills them by battering me over the head with a cricket bat.
Aparrantly its the only way to get rid of them.

white vinegar is a good one, I use to cover my kidz hair in it, wrap a bag around the Hair and let it dry, then next morning shampoo it off, worked for my kidz
mine too,used it for years

Yeah, but you guys, IM 16 YEARS OLD, AND MY FAMILY DONT KNOW, SO I NEED TO DO SOMETHING THAT THEY WONT KNOW ABOUT AND GET RID OF THEM! Oh my god, you guys really need to help me, im freakin out!! Help please

help me ppl

Slap a load of Mayonnaise, then a shower cap.....leave on 30 min, it suffocates them.

I have PM you xxkw4jwxx

Do you think schools should have a "de-louse your child day?" Where every child in the school should be treated for headlice on the same day.
It seems everytime my children are clear, the minute they go back to school they are scratching again. I have now ditched the potions(as I am sure this lot are super nits and totally immune) and resorted to almost scalping my boys,and at this moment I am scraping a very fine nit comb through my hair!
Is the problem widespread or just my lot?:huh:

yeah that would be a great idea, im sick of doing it only to find him crawling 3 weeks later

the only stuff i have found that works - none of the chemist stuff does - is organic green peoples shampoo from in a nutshell on chesterfield road, i put that straight on dry hair, add a small amount of water and lather it in, leave for 5 minutes, then comb through and they literally drop everywhere, i then clear all the eggs out as much as i can, then do it again 3-4 days later great stuff

hth

emma

I blame the"epidemic" of head lice, over the last few years, on the demise of the Nit-nurse, in the schools.

she'd come round regularly and check up, and any kid with lice would be sent home with some derbac (or whichever insecticide was being used in rotation at that time) and they'd be cleared up.

I was most fortunate, I never once caught head lice, whilst at school, so never had the thing of taking the letter and the derbac home.

I blame the"epidemic" of head lice, over the last few years, on the demise of the Nit-nurse, in the schools.
The nit nurse is no longer a fixture at school? Could the school nurse not do a regular check instead? Are there not still school nurses?

I remember we had our hair checked frequently at primary school by the nit nurse, and I can't recall any of my friends ever having nits. I remember being very annoyed that I had to take my hair out of my pony tails though, and it was always tangled by the time she'd finished with it :hihi: .

Just been reading this and now you've started me itching!!!

Why does that always happen when people talk about nits?

:huh:

Do you think schools should have a "de-louse your child day?" Where every child in the school should be treated for headlice on the same day.
It seems everytime my children are clear, the minute they go back to school they are scratching again. I have now ditched the potions(as I am sure this lot are super nits and totally immune) and resorted to almost scalping my boys,and at this moment I am scraping a very nit comb through my hair!
Is the problem widespread or just my lot?:huh:

a ps.

if you are concerned about using the chemicals on your child's hair, (and not without good reason):-

a good, and well-recommended way of getting shot of lice is to slather your/ your kid's hair in conditioner (this suffocates the little blighters) and then use the "derbac comb" (fine tooth-comb) to go through the hair thoroughly, root to tip, and kill (with great malice) the nasty little beggars. *squish*

repeat once or twice a week till the little blighters are "Deadded".

have a look at the bugbusters website, for how to do this effectively.

your doctor can also prescribe the bugbuster kit, to use on your kid,if you'd prefer not to use chemicals.

PT

The nit nurse is no longer a fixture at school? Could the school nurse not do a regular check instead? Are there not still school nurses?

I remember we had our hair checked frequently at primary school by the nit nurse, and I can't recall any of my friends ever having nits. I remember being very annoyed that I had to take my hair out of my pony tails though, and it was always tangled by the time she'd finished with it :hihi: .

I'm afraid not, hecate:- "nitty norah the nit-nurse " is no more.... :(

and it's well annoying, because they were very, very effective.

do you know, I used to love it when the nurse went through my hair, partly because I like having my hair messed with, and partly, I think, because I knew she'd not find "owt" there that shouldn't be there!

i have a 4yr old that is in nursery, luckily she hasnt caught nits YET even though they are doin the rounds.
from what i believe the nit nurses where made redundant because of child abuse laws.
i regularly check my daughters hair and would immediately get rid of them if she did catch them, i would not send her to school knowing that she would highly likely pass them on. unfortunately there are parents out there that dont give a damn!
i would have no problem with the nit nurse checking my daughters hair and feel that there is a great need for them to be welcomed back into schools!

a good, and well-recommended way of getting shot of lice is to slather your/ your kid's hair in conditioner (this suffocates the little blighters) and then use the "derbac comb" (fine tooth-comb) to go through the hair thoroughly, root to tip, and kill (with great malice) the nasty little beggars. *squish*

repeat once or twice a week till the little blighters are "Deadded".



I do this every week/fortnight on all 3 of my kids, and so far - touch wood - we have managed to avoid the permanent epidemic of nits at school.
the money they have spent sending out 'nit letters' could have been spent on a 20p nit comb for every child.:rolleyes:

lol at *squish* ... we tend to go for *crack* !! some dont quite crack the same as others .... speshly if you use lots of conditioner.:hihi:

incidentally, a good conditioner to use is the cheapo boots conditioner ... about 40p a huge bottle in their basics range:thumbsup:

[QUOTE=Plain Talker]I blame the"epidemic" of head lice, over the last few years, on the demise of the Nit-nurse, in the schools.

I agree, I can't remember seeing as many cases of headlice as there are now.

BRING BACK NITTY NORA :thumbsup:

Bring back the nit nurse(I`m sure they were all called Nora)!
I`ll give that a go Eeejay, thanks!!

I have this yet to come.

Can you tell me what a 'nit' looks like? With talk of the fine toothed comb and 'cracking' they sound like cat fleas!

Also, how do you pass on nits? By rubbing heads together? :confused:

[QUOTE=Plain Talker]I blame the"epidemic" of head lice, over the last few years, on the demise of the Nit-nurse, in the schools.

I agree, I can't remember seeing as many cases of headlice as there are now.

BRING BACK NITTY NORA :thumbsup:


lol ... as my mum would say, at least they dont tar yer head with purple stuff so everyone knew you had em!!! (thank god i grew up in the 60s/70s and not the 30s/40s!!)

I have this yet to come.

Can you tell me what a 'nit' looks like? With talk of the fine toothed comb and 'cracking' they sound like cat fleas!
I think if you go for anything with legs and (possibly) wings scurrying about in the kid's hair, you'll be fine :lol: .

I have this yet to come.

Can you tell me what a 'nit' looks like? With talk of the fine toothed comb and 'cracking' they sound like cat fleas!

Also, how do you pass on nits? By rubbing heads together? :confused:

I don't know how to post pics, but someone will , then you will wish you had never asked. They are bloody horrible :hihi:

I remember Nitty Norah The Bug Explorer! Usually when you were having jabs at the same time - the school would get everything done in 1 go. I remember catching head lice once at school, and then caught it from one of my kids when they were at school (embarrassment). Conditioner with Tea Tree Oil is supposed to be good I was led to believe. And, yes, I have started scratching too!!

I think if you go for anything with legs and (possibly) wings scurrying about in the kid's hair, you'll be fine :lol: .

no, nits don't have wings, they look like grey/ buff coloured things, with six legs, about 2 or three milimetres long
this is a sized up pic;; (*shudder*)

<gets her "squishing" head ready! lol>

http://health.allrefer.com/health/head-lice-head-louse-female.html here

no, nits don't have wings, they look like grey/ buff coloured things, with six legs, about 2 or three milimetres long
this is a sized up pic;; (*shudder*)

<gets her "squishing" head ready! lol>

http://health.allrefer.com/health/head-lice-head-louse-female.html here


PT hunny, your link doesnt work!

(ive started scratching now ...:( )

Ooooo you've got me scratching now ! All my kids got them when they were at school - I was told at the time that they like clean hair - don't know if that is true ? We had terrible trouble with my daughters hair as it is long, curly and very thick. We struggled on with the tea tree conditioner for weeks with many a tear from her because the nit comb was very difficult to get through her hair ! I am afraid to say we had to resort to the Full Marks mousse and it shifted them staight away - never had them again ( touch wood ).
PS . i GOT THEM TOO !

ok, giving it another try

this is to bugbusters
http://www.chc.org/bugbusting/

and this is the louse pic
http://health.allrefer.com/health/head-lice-head-louse-female.html

sorry having probs with the URL facility

Put some teetree essential oil in the shampoo and conditioner. you don't need much and it should keep them at bay for everyone, not just the kids.

ive heard its a new strain

Yes there should be nit nurses and a "de-louse your child" day! They should do it country wide on a certain day! I run a Rainbow & Brownie unit so am unfortunate enough to still be at risk :( No matter how much you tie your hair up you still end up getting the ******* things!

More should be done to eliminate them!!

ive heard its a new strain
yeah, wasn't there a thing on the news a cpl months ago saying they were appealing for a new kind of chemical cos all t'others had become useless?
are these lice by any chance related to roaches?

itch itch :huh:

I`ve always let the teachers know when any of my lot have had them, so they can let other parents know and them in turn will check their child. But what is the point when not everyone is bothering to do this? I think a lot of parents do not like to admit that their child has/had nits and perhaps see it as embarrassing, which it is not!

P S
I have now finished de-lousing myelf and clan, and am now nit free.........I hope!:thumbsup:

They ( other mums) reckon the nitty gritty comb is one of the best combs to use.

I add tea tree oil to our shampoo. Whiffs abit but meant to deter the little itchy buggers.

ok, giving it another try

this is to bugbusters
http://www.chc.org/bugbusting/

and this is the louse pic
http://health.allrefer.com/health/head-lice-head-louse-female.html

sorry having probs with the URL facility

euw, i couldnt resist having a look. I cant ever remember having them, but i remember having some foul smelly shampoo.

im bl**dy itching now too:huh:

sick of em they seem to come from no where I find oil or tea tre helps clear em

I have now finished de-lousing myelf and clan, and am now nit free.........I hope!:thumbsup:

Famous last words, there's still another day at school, you could well have your pets back by tomorrow night. :hihi:

we used to use derback (spelling)soap, solio& some nights my grandmother would look through my hair also the nit comb newspaper on knees & start combing ,when caught cracked the nit between thumb nails.

hedrin works and has no nasty chemicals. it still doesn't help though,if your child is going to get infested again straight after.

I have taken to nit combing my daughter's hair 3 times a week, even though she is nit free,that way I should catch any unwelcome guests,before they settle in.

I was alway told that you should rinse the hair in vinegar as this "melts" the glue that holds the eggs to the hair. After this you slather on loads of conditioner and everything combs out relatively easily. Still have to crack them as not necessarily dead form this treatment.

*sings*

Nit crack- away..
oh nit crack away...

nitcrackaway, nitcrackaway nit crackawayyyyy!!

:hihi: :hihi::hihi:

Famous last words, there's still another day at school, you could well have your pets back by tomorrow night. :hihi:

I know, I`ve started to itch already just thinking about it!

Yes - hedrin is the best - but it's SOOOooooooooo expensive!:o

Still have to crack them as not necessarily dead form this treatment.


doesnt matter if they aint dead ... its the satisfaction of murdering the little buggers!!!

We've just had a letter home from school about unwelcome visitors in the hair of our little darlings! Fortunately, or unfortunately for my son, I've been obsessed with nits ever since our school nitnurse attacked my lovely pig tails back in primary school - so I check his hair every couple of days! Touch wood - we've escaped so far! Scratch, scratch!!

they used to nit comb me, grr

The thing is these days are terrifying incase you're the kid that's got nits lol.

Perhaps when they have "maths day" or "bring money to school for some other random cause day" they could have a "zap the nits day". I'd happily sign a consent form to rid the town of the little beggars!

I grew up in the 1940's and never had nits. Neither did my brothers or cousins. I was a WW2 baby.........the nits daren't have a go at us after the Battle of Britain :hihi:

Just an idea, why not set up a Non-Nitting Group on SF? :hihi:

I've also tried nearly everything on the market for getting rid of nits and as you know now hardly any of them work at all or they don't get rid of the eggs, I tried Hedrin from the chemist and it cleared it straight away and you don't even have to go through their hair with a comb afterwards either the eggs just fall of I would reccommend it to anyone.

lol when i was a child you never heard of them n now its shocking should bring a lotion o shampoo out to stop you from gettin them:thumbsup:

i wonder where this new strain came from ?

i wonder where this new strain came from ?
God made them out of other things and they evolved and .....................

Oooops!! Wrong thread.:rolleyes:

i wonder where this new strain came from ?
My bloody head, thats where!!:hihi:

nits developed a sort of resistance to things like Derbac (proprion?) and Malathion, which were the insecticides which were traditionally used to treat them. It was described a few years ago as being a sort of "superbug"!!

Chemists reccommended using the two chemicals in rotation, swapping over, every 3 or 6 months, to try and beat the little blighters' resistance.

it doesn't look like even that is now working, either.

i think the bugbusting treatment, fine tooth comb and conditioner is going to be the only way to beat them!

my daughter caught them and i had absolute hell getting rid of the damn things, as all the kids at nursery would keep passing them back to her by touching heads when hugging! the conditioner thing didn't work at all, what did work was the liquid 'Full Marks' not the mousse, that was useless, and a nitty gritty comb, it left some eggs in which i combed out, but all the nits actually died and fell off...
if you don't want to squash them (eugh!) a bowl of boiling water is far more satisfying ;) just comb them out and swizz the comb in the water (aha die you b*rstewards!)
:hihi:

Head lice,or "nits" are caused by idle parents, who are too rodney to look in their childrens hair every night with a tooth comb,they may get the odd one or two that cant be helped,but they can be contained by nightly check-ups before going to bed.I used to hate it as i had very curly hair when i was a little lad, and my mam was a bit rough , as the comb used to "lug"me ,but on the whole i had one of the cleanest "heeads" in the class.God bless you mam.

Head lice,or "nits" are caused by idle parents, who are too rodney to look in their childrens hair every night with a tooth comb,they may get the odd one or two that cant be helped,but they can be contained by nightly check-ups before going to bed.I used to hate it as i had very curly hair when i was a little lad, and my mam was a bit rough , as the comb used to "lug"me ,but on the whole i had one of the cleanest "heeads" in the class.God bless you mam.

The outbreak is caused by the people that don`t check & treat the problem, not by the good parents on this thread which obviously do!

thats what i said ,people who are too lazy to check the kids heads,it should be as as natural a thing to do ,as turning the light out ,last thing at night.Its the same as keeping weeds down in the garden, ignore them ,and they multiply,

I always check my boys not that iv ever had a bad problem with them just odd one or two.,when i do i shave their heads then go through with conditioner and a comb.
It is a hard thing to control i know quiet a few kids that always seem to be swarming its horrid.
This one gilr i know who used to play with my son had them bad,and you could see them crawling on top of her head and eggs where laid half way down her head so she has had them a long time.
She no longer plays with my son they got bored of each other and made new friends im kind of glad about because it makes me cringe.
eeeekk i feel all itchy now charlie

Put some teetree essential oil in the shampoo and conditioner. you don't need much and it should keep them at bay for everyone, not just the kids.

My kids use teatree shampoo, it smells divine :hihi: but seems to work.

Ah my worst occupational hazard!

I've been lucky enough not to ever have them... but colleagues and friends have a plenty.

Trouble is, you can't say to an individual child or parents, "Oi you've got nits, tell ya mam!" A generic letter has to go out to the whole class which goes out so often I'm sure the nits are building houses and multiplying with them.
And you know the child that has them for weeks on end is usually the same child whose parents come into complain that they didn't know about school photos and then find a soggy two week old letter at the bottom of the book bag...:suspect:

And you know the child that has them for weeks on end is usually the same child whose parents come into complain that they didn't know about school photos and then find a soggy two week old letter at the bottom of the book bag...:suspect:

:o thats me that is! :P not the nits thing but the soggy letter in the bottom of the book bag, or most likely missing letter. Luckily DS's school now publish all important letters on their website so I regularly check that to see what he forgot to give me. :thumbsup:

:o thats me that is! :P not the nits thing but the soggy letter in the bottom of the book bag, or most likely missing letter. Luckily DS's school now publish all important letters on their website so I regularly check that to see what he forgot to give me. :thumbsup:

Lol. We do that at our school too. :)

Some children have a great habit of suddenly finding litter bins on the way home for letters they might not want their parents to see for whatever reason. :suspect:

Or like one child (not in my class) who we found out had told her parents that she was not getting a homework diary this year and had forged her parents' signatures to every note and letter sent home in the diary. Sometimes with "I'll will speak to her type comments!" :o

She slipped up when she spelled her own name incorrectly and insisted on scribbling it out in the same distinctive pen and writing it above!

you have to feel for the poor child ,its not their fault ,they are innocent ,as i have always believed,its the fault of the parents, for not checking nightly,and acting on it. In the 50s,you always knew who was being treated at home ,they would come into the class smelling of vinegar,it was always the same few children.

thats what i said ,people who are too lazy to check the kids heads,it should be as as natural a thing to do ,as turning the light out ,last thing at night.Its the same as keeping weeds down in the garden, ignore them ,and they multiply,
Really sorry mate, thought you were having a pop!!:hihi: :hihi:

surgical spirit

Head lice,or "nits" are caused by idle parents, who are too rodney to look in their childrens hair every night with a tooth comb,they may get the odd one or two that cant be helped,but they can be contained by nightly check-ups before going to bed.I used to hate it as i had very curly hair when i was a little lad, and my mam was a bit rough , as the comb used to "lug"me ,but on the whole i had one of the cleanest "heeads" in the class.God bless you mam.
I hope you've got kids of your own, you try to get a child to sit still for ten or twenty mins every night and see how far you get, don't be so pedantic, it's nothing to do with parents not checking their childrens heads it's just most lotions don't work anymore, you can get rid of them then they go back to school and BANG they've got them again it's a fact of life now young kids pass nits on you can only do your best to get rid of them.

There is a thread somewhere explaining about how me & a friend set up a petition at our childrens school about bring back the nit nurse. Got loads to sign it & headteacher was gonna pass it on to other local schools. I think if we all do our own bit someone somewhere will get the message & do something about it. Email me if you want the petition form I did.
However at my daughters school they do a kind of have a delousing day, it actually called "bug busting". Alll the kids go home with a letter saying they are bug busting on about 4 days over a certain 2 weeks. If it was done correctly all mums & dads would go through their childrens hair using the conditioner method every third day over 2 weeks on the exact same day. The kids bring a letter home telling you the days. If this is signed by the parent saying they have been bug busted on those days they get a fantastic sticker which they wear proudly. At least you know the ones with the stickers ain't got nits. If they don't do it, why don't you suggest it to your school. I know I've caught the blighters a couple of times off my daughter so I dread to think how many teachers have then at any one time.

Aaaarghh! Here we go again. Major outbreak in my sons school, I have just shaved their heads. I suppose I`m quite lucky in the fact that I can do that, I feel sorry for all of you out there that have little girls with long hair.

my youngest daughter keeps coming from school with head lice,so when we find them , we keep her off school till shes clear ,we treat he with different treatments available from the chemist untill shes clear again ,when she returns it seems matter of days before shes got them again and so on. may thought is,if we are commited to send our children to school ,should the goverment be commited to treat head lice caught in there schools

She probably catches cold at school too. Maybe try claiming back the cost of medicine from the government as well. Oh, and plasters in case she scrapes her knee. :rolleyes:

She probably catches cold at school too. Maybe try claiming back the cost of medicine from the government as well. Oh, and plasters in case she scrapes her knee. :rolleyes:

well thats a point i didnt think of that,well thats why i asked the question

blame the parents who send their kids to school crawling with them. Our school sends out letters asking parents NOT to do that, but they still do. agree its annoying to clear your childs head only for them to be reinfected off the less consciencious parents kids, but NOT the schools fault. too much political correctness etc ment the 'nit nurse' was done away with too

my youngest daughter keeps coming from school with head lice,so when we find them , we keep her off school till shes clear ,we treat he with different treatments available from the chemist untill shes clear again ,when she returns it seems matter of days before shes got them again and so on. may thought is,if we are commited to send our children to school ,should the goverment be commited to treat head lice caught in there schools

If you go to your GP and get the stuff on prescription, you wont have to pay.

If you go to your GP and get the stuff on prescription, you wont have to pay.

parents no longer get free prescriptions for this matter

If you routinely wet comb the hair with a flea comb and conditioner before bathtime, then you should prevent the blighters ever getting a toe hold on your little one's scalp (or the rest of your family, come to that).

when i was in school and we were at the age where head lice was rampant (between 5 and 10) the school nurse would do weekly headchecks to see who was clear and who wasnt. if they saw one child who seemed to be the source of the headlice, they would require that child to stay home till they got rid of the lice and were only allowed back with a drs note.

A friend of mine's daughter was constantly getting head lice from school..
Like you, she'd clear them up and within a couple of days, she'd get them back..
She got that sick of it, that she shaved off her daughters hair !!
Extreme measure but it worked.. Until her hair grew back that is..

when i was in school and we were at the age where head lice was rampant (between 5 and 10) the school nurse would do weekly headchecks to see who was clear and who wasnt. if they saw one child who seemed to be the source of the headlice, they would require that child to stay home till they got rid of the lice and were only allowed back with a drs note.

That's classed as discrimination now.

I did a thread about this a few weeks ago. Aparrantly the teachers cant tell the parents of the kid who spreads the nits around to get him cleaned up because its Discrimination aparrantly, so the decent parents, spend good money buying nit lotion, cleaning up their kids an a nightly basis, just so some little scruff can infect them again the next day at school.
Of course, it isnt the kids fault, its the dirty, idle parents who cant be arsed to get up and do something about their kids nits.

How much do head lice cost anyway? If they're less than 50p a dozen I'd like to order some.....

I did a thread about this a few weeks ago. Aparrantly the teachers cant tell the parents of the kid who spreads the nits around to get him cleaned up because its Discrimination aparrantly, so the decent parents, spend good money buying nit lotion, cleaning up their kids an a nightly basis, just so some little scruff can infect them again the next day at school.
Of course, it isnt the kids fault, its the dirty, idle parents who cant be arsed to get up and do something about their kids nits.


What Jabber said:thumbsup:

Its annoying though, when theyre rife you feel like youre fighting a losing battle.

That's classed as discrimination now.

how?
its a parents responsibility to keep their children clean and safe. if they are infecting others with something thats VERY easily preventable those parents should be held fully responsible for their actions. if they are sending their kids to school with lice, they are creating a health issue and should be punished for it.

All the school can do is tell all the kids parents that theres a nit infestation going the rounds, either by letter, or at a meeting.
If they tell one set of parents its discrimination and as such, infringes their human rights.
The next best thing the school can do is ask for demonstration packs of nit lotion, hand it out to all the parents and hope that they all use it.

parents no longer get free prescriptions for this matter

Yes they do.

Heres the other thread, for what its worth:


http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=182779&highlight=discrimination

dont even get me started on this one......
when my daughter did go to school i had a nightmare, i was in the same boat , she caught them i kept her off school till i had got rid of them then as soon as she went back she got them again. i had no end of arguments with the teacher and head teacher, i asked why the child ( that was actually known to have the nits constantly) wasnt sent home till they had been cleared, the teacher said that the child was entitled to their education and nits wasnt a reason to stay away from school WHAT!!!! i said that my daughter was also entitled to her education and i was having to keep her off school to get rid of them, then i was told i was going against the law keeping her off.... in my day kids were sent home and wernt allowed back until the nurse had seen them to be sure the nits had gone. now adays they say that the nit nurse is a form of abuse to children thats why the schools have stopped having them.
the head teacher also told me that i was being unreasnable and that nits cause no harm.... i told him that i would collect all the nits in a jar and he could put them in his hair to see if it caused him no harm.
scratching till your head is bleeding then having to put chemicals on to kill them DOES cause harm.
the comb and conditioner thing is ok if its a once in a while thing but when the school is so badly effected it is like fighting a losing battle.
we did get our prescriptions free at the time but after a while it was useless anyway as the nits became imune to the stuff so i was having to buy other stuff from the chemist at nearly a tenner a pop.
it doesnt effect me now as my kids dont go to school, but i know how you feel :(

Why not stick some teatree essential oil in the shampoo, it will keep them away and you won't have to buy any nasty chemicals.

Wash The Hair Daily And Comb Through Hair Conditioner, With A Flea Comb, The Blighters Will Loose There Grip And Drop Off.

So glad I have boys, I keep the hair as short as poss

Why not stick some teatree essential oil in the shampoo, it will keep them away and you won't have to buy any nasty chemicals.

i used this and thort it was fantastic but after a little while they seem to get to like it, my poor daughter used to smell of alsorts including vinegar :hihi:

my hubbys cousins little girl is half cast and her nannan put deisel on her hair ( apparently thats what they do in her native country) we were all gob smacked but they swear by it :o

So glad I have boys, I keep the hair as short as poss

i know, i used to plait my lasses hair and cake it in hairspray hoping they wouldnt be able to get in, i also sent her to school with a hat on and told the teachers she wasnt gunna take it off in class but nothing worked, after one really bad episode of the nits i found one crawling on my youngest lads eyebrow, i was fuming and thats when i went up and had the big argument and kept my daughter off school for 3 months. that did actually have an effect the teacher said that she could get the sack but she did look in the little girls hair who we all knew to be the one who was effecting everyone, they were crawling on her fringe and the poor little thing was riddled in them, the school contacted her nannan cos thats who she lived with and she said that she didnt beleive in doctors so refused to go and get some stuff.
it was a nightmare that lasted over 3 years, i honestly thought i would have been better off trying to get sense out of a brick wall , at one point i even offered to be a unpaid nitnurse but of course was refused as apparently it is child abuse to touch childrens heads :|

parents no longer get free prescriptions for this matter

Yes you can get it free and you dont need to see your DR to get it, You just go into your local chemist and ask for a green form to get free items for many other illness that you dont need to see a DR for, and all you do is fill in the form tick you want the head lice solution then hand it in then wait. When my daughter was at her old school, she was forever coming home with head lice even thoe we treated her soon as she had them. But she was forever coming home with them, even when we tied her hair back.

Up to now since we moved house and she started secondry school she has had no head lice so we think it was some kid that she had to sit with in her old school that was giveing them her. I dont get why parents do not treat kids heads even when the solution free to get, as most of the time it not just your child that gets them but it can run into the whole family too and people that are in contact with your child. Now we always wash her hair with Tea Tree shampoo and always spray quassia bark water into the head and this stop lice from getting on the head too just in case. This stuf is great and very cheap and very easy to make, get it from any herbal shop.

I used all the lotions in boots, but every few weeks we would have to start all over again. The only thing that I have found to works is to get in a routine of twice a week sitting my daughter on my knee with her head covered in conditioner (cheaper the better) and using the metal nit comb and go over her head about twice then rince off. My daughter hates it but we have been clear now for about a year even though we get letters saying nit are about.

I used all the lotions in boots, but every few weeks we would have to start all over again. The only thing that I have found to works is to get in a routine of twice a week sitting my daughter on my knee with her head covered in conditioner (cheaper the better) and using the metal nit comb and go over her head about twice then rince off. My daughter hates it but we have been clear now for about a year even though we get letters saying nit are about.

Thats exactly what I did when my daughter got them.. I never bothered with any chemical stuff just conditioner and a nit comb...

Fingers crossed touch wood, my daughter hasn't had them for over a year now.. I do keep checking though..

If you routinely wet comb the hair with a flea comb and conditioner before bathtime, then you should prevent the blighters ever getting a toe hold on your little one's scalp (or the rest of your family, come to that).

totally agree here, my daughter came back once with lice and shared them with me, i didnt buy expensive treatments as they are just to get rid, not to keep them at bay, i buy a good thick conditioner (herbal essense is good) i wash her hair then cover her head in conditioner, massage it in really well, i then spend 20 mins whilst she is playing in the bath combing through every inch of her hair with a metal nit comb, after every day i sit her down and give her hair a once over looking for eggs. The conditioner in most cases prevents the eggs from attaching, good luck :)

I've been told to use teetree shampoo and conditioner once a week to keep them at bay. My little girl came home with lice a few weeks back i ended up going out to buy a solution. It's only since ive spooken to people after that they say the best treatment is to use a conditioner and nite comb.

my youngest daughter keeps coming from school with head lice,so when we find them , we keep her off school till shes clear ,we treat he with different treatments available from the chemist untill shes clear again ,when she returns it seems matter of days before shes got them again and so on. may thought is,if we are commited to send our children to school ,should the goverment be commited to treat head lice caught in there schools

Have you considered the possibility that a few rogue eggs are being left in the hair so that, although you think she is clear, after a few days the cycle just begins again?

A combination of a couple of drops of tea tree in the shampoo and conditioner. and once a week doing nit comb and conditioner routine and that should keep them at bay

Why do you keep your child off school? If you do the conditioner/nit comb thing properly, she will nor harbour any lice to spread, and if you do it regularly, the problem will not re-occur. If, on the other hand, you just slosh the Derbac around, you miss the nits and do not kill off all the lice. Only combing will do it. It's a nuisance, it's tedious, the kids hate it, BUT once they have seen a Derbac-doused headlouse still very much alive the day after treatment under the microscope, they will accept the necessity.

I'm saddened to see all the usual hurtfull nonsense spouted on this forum. I've read several posts on this thread about "irresponsible parents" and "scruffy kids". Nits prefer clean hair to dirty hair. They are sometimes VERY hard to shift and some children SUFFER with them for a long time. Name calling and other ignorant, cruel and thoughtless behaviour does nothing to help.

The child in question is your own child and the parent is you. Show a little compassion.

Thanks to all those who submitted helpful advice and personal remedies.

I`ve been raking through everyones hair tonight(including my own), sick of the bloody things, You get rid of em only for em to get em again a few days later. This might sound really odd but I have found a flea comb to be much better than a nit comb as the teeth are closer together so you get the eggs aswell!
I must say I have developed some sort of addiction with nitting the kids, check em all the time, they daren`t stand near me too long cos they know I`ll get them in a headlock and pin them down:hihi:
So if anyone wants their child nitting, send em to mine so I can have my fix!!:D
heres another thread on the darlings
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=153357&highlight=nits

Thought this thread would rear it's head again at some point.
Luther: I haven't reread all the posts but I for one am not slating the parents of the kids with nits otherwise I would have to line up at the wall & be shot myself.
My daughter at one time was lousy due to me not knowing the correct way to get rid of the blighters. I know now & (touch wood) she has been free for ages. I do still go through her hair on a weekly basis.
The problem is the few parents who just don't care. I am sorry to say Luther but there are kids with nits litterally marching on their heads. You can see the insects as plain as day. To get to this point the childs hair couldn't have had any treatment for many weeks & by treatment I mean at the very least using a fine tooth comb with no conditioner.
I sympathise with the kids but I am sorry but I wouldn't want my child mating about with them, all down to the parents. Doesn't bother me, my daughter mating about with anyone with nits so long as the parents inform me (if not at school) & they're not the few who have them marching on their heads.
BTW Nits do not prefer clean hair to dirty hair , they infact have no preference. Actually you are likely to have less nits on clean hair because even general grooming will rid a few nits.
I am guessing you have found yourself here due to a problem that your child has with nits. You sound like a responsible parent so if they've had them a while I would guess they are mating about with a child/children whose parents don't care or you need to try an alternative method.
The best method by far that I have come across is Hederin, use twice & comb regularly, even seems to help get rid of the stubborn white egg shells.
Good luck!

I know of several parents that refuse to acknowledge that their kids may have nits, so they don`t even bother to check. I think a lot of them see it as dirty to have nits:loopy:

But with these kids lyndix you don't need to check, they're perched on kids fringes literally checking you out & waving at ya.

we are having the same problem the best thing i've found is full marks it costs 5.50 from morrisons and you apply it to try hair leave for 10 mins then comb out.
Apart from that all you can do is go through it every night spray some teatree on it in a morning and put it in a tight plait for school.
What really annoys me is I keep treating my kids hair then send em back to school and they get em again cos other parents just dont bother grrrrrr

My response to any cruel kids at school who had a crafty dig at the poor kid with nits was, "Nits only live on people with spotlessly clean, not filthy hair. Erm, haven't you got them yet then?"

My daughter has very thick, long and curly hair so when she got nits a few years ago it was a nightmare ! It was, and still is, virtually impossible to get a normal comb through it let alone a 'nit' comb ! I tried almost every product on the market at the time and found the only one to work was Full Marks mousse. We would get her clear and then a week later she got them again - reinfected by the kids at school whose parents either wont accept that their child could possibly have nits or just dont care ! God, I am scratching my head now thinking about it !

I`m sure they`re getting bigger aswell:suspect:

Our daughter had nits we spent months and £££s on every treatment available I mean every one on here could'nt shift them they kept coming back.

In the end the only thing that worked was as simple as hair gel put it on it set her hair rock hard they couldnt breathe and it also killed the eggs shes never had them since!

Sometimes, i feel alone in this world, because i have nits...
I have starred on the channel 4 programme Embarrasing Illnesses about this humiliating problem. The only thing they said was to walk around with a shower cap on my head, but that means people will be able 2 know.
I get called things in the street like, Big fat Nit Head, and Scrachy. As i have to wear a showercap, i was hoping to start a new fashion craze, but instead i got abuse and taunts.

Please if you have any suggestions or alternatives,
can you please tell me,,
because my life is turning into a nitmare..

Thankyou... ClaireNitso x

And yet.. Im still itching my sore and swolen scalp...

Tea tree shampoo

why dont you just get some nit stuff? and a special comb

Iv tried the comb but i have an extremly large afro..

and i thankyou very much for the suggestion but iv already tried the shampoo and conditoner.

any more ?

Are you taking the p*ss?

Loads of Mayonnaise then shower cap, eggs can't breathe. (allegedly)

Shave your head

Are you taking the p*ss?

I think she is now after reading her other posts.

No i am not taking the **** , this is an extremly sensitive matter of mine so go join another chat if you like to intimidate people

the shaving your head is quite a good suggestion, thanks x

and the egg one! i love thy all, my children of lord..!

No i am not taking the **** , this is an extremly sensitive matter of mine so go join another chat if you like to intimidate people

Apologies, claire - it wasn't my intention to intimidate you, just to clarify whether you were serious.
How long have you had them?
If they're that much of a bother, why haven't you sorted it by now?
It's not that difficult, cut your hair short (or shave it off altogether) and get busy with a comb and some conditioner.

I know a few adults with a infestation. (Not me). There's is not a one off case and there in there late 20's. At least your seeking advice hun unlike the other few i know. Conditioner plenty of it and go through with a nit comb. oh and tea tree is a nit repellent.

Shoot them. Shoot them all.

Are you implying by the quote ( not me ) that people with nits are some kind of lepers?
If not thanks for the advice sugarplum

Claire, did you know that alot of kids catch nits from their parents and then pass them along at school?
So many adults get nits every year it's really not unusual.
Are your friends getting treated aswell as they are probably reinfecting you.

I myt shoot my head if i shoot my nits? you daft person lol x

I have no friends or kids.. =[

And no your the 1 infecting me with your disgraceful suggestions?
how very dare you >=(

And no your the 1 infecting me with your disgraceful suggestions?
how very dare you >=(

:confused::confused:

In response to your question, I did a quick survey, and I'm afraid that it looks like you ARE the only 20-year-old with nits. Hard luck!

Still think she's a troll......

I'd seek medical attention if its as bad as you say it is

Still think she's a troll......

I may be with you on this one

Still think she's a troll......

Me too, but I'll continue to humour her.

Are you implying by the quote ( not me ) that people with nits are some kind of lepers?
If not thanks for the advice sugarplum

No i was not , and lepers thats mad. It just aint healthy when it comes to the people i know that are breeding them.
They dont care about a cure at all. Like i said at least your sorting it out hun. hope it works. x

is there a basil rathbone tone to this?

Still think she's a troll......

I agree....... just keep offering advice she may get bored after hearing the same cure 50 times.

is there a basil rathbone tone to this?

Hell no, Basil was much funnier........

dip your head in a bath of sulphuric acid for 10 minutes. it may sting a little if you have a cut or graze but it will work.

gross, but strangely funny :gag:

Diesel. they don't like it. you will smell of diesel for a while but you won't have nits

you have an afro? and you're a woman?

one of her posts implies she has ginger hair and pale skin......but yet she has an afro?!

Defo a troll:suspect:

The question is...... who's the double agent?

as long as you stay away from other 20 year olds, then hopefully yes.

one of her posts implies she has ginger hair and pale skin......but yet she has an afro?!


She could still have an afro, it's only a cut style.

i dont believe you have nits at all claire, i think you lack attention. for that i would suggest getting a boyfriend.

or a life !!!!!!!

Thanks Claire, I have cracked up at at least three of your posts today, just from browsing General Discussions today I have gleaned that you are 18 or 20 (on posts on the same day and with 1986 in your username) years old, just getting over love at first sight in Matalan with someone who called you a lard arse, in the meantime finding gay men to have sex with and then 'turn' with your mate and your DD boob job, all the while spreading nits vicariously wherever you roam!

Agree with someone who posted earlier on the blind date thread of yours which seems to have been deleted (can't think why!) - the funniest and happiest troll in a while :D

i dont think she knows who she is or how old she is neither...:hihi:
but iv got to admit,she is the best troll i have seen in quite a while and has given me a few laughs today...
so thanks..:D

I get them from my little sisters sometimes, i use the nit lotion stuff and a comb :)

Agreed, three cheers for happy trolls!

Are you taking the p*ss?

you read the love at first sight thread too?

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=251244

hip hip hoooray
hip hip hoooray
hip hip hoooray
:hihi::hihi::hihi:

This is funny.. where she gone? Got crabs?!

We're adopting a 'Don't feed the trolls' policy at the moment, I'm afraid.

Even the happy trolls shouldn't be encouraged. :)

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? :(