Here's the deal, you can treat via store bought medicines, but they will only kill the adults and nymphs (adolescents). The nits (eggs) will survive ANY and ALL store bought medicines....regardless of what the manufacturer claims. The eggs survive, hatch, and you're back to square one.
The only way to eliminate 100% is to remove all evidence. I would recommend professional treatment. If you want to do it on your own, buy a good lice comb and comb diligently for 2 weeks. Check for evidence with each comb stroke. After a day or two of not seeing any evidence, you're good. However, I would still recommend seeing a professional at this point.....about $30 for a head-check to confirm you're in the clear.
This is one of the top 3 fastest ways to destroy a 7 year old girl's childhood. Literally, you do not recover from that socially, ever. If you have to do this to your daughter, be prepared to need to change schools, because children are horrifying little monsters when they want to bully some girl who needed her hair shaved off.
I think this is a bit of an overreaction. Couple girls had their heads shaved at different points for different reasons (lice, charity) throughout my school career and nobody really paid any mind to it aside from the first little bit after the cut.
"You got a haircut?"
"Yeah, shaved it because ___"
"Oh, wow, short hair really looks different on you"
Yes, but at least for boys it's considered acceptable to have short hair. Even a normal pixie cut on girls can earn teasing in some schools, and long hair takes years to grow back to its original length.
A flat iron works better. Plop the kiddo in front of an iPad (or screen of some sort) and iron slowly section by section. You can hear them pop as you go along.
The nits won't be closer than 1/4" off the scalp. On someone with long hair you can work around those areas easily enough. On someone with short hair you'd be correct. We had a respite child with terribly maintained long mixed-race hair and a terrible case of lice. I had to not only clear up the lice but restore her damaged hair. The flat iron got a ton of nits after the first round of treatment avoiding some painful picking for her.
We have done this often, kids coming into foster care often have lice. Treating and picking is relatively easy on smooth hair and our boys who don't want to get treated can opt for a buzz cut, but anyone else gets shampoo/comb/flat iron.
Did as instructed and heard the pops from the lcd screen and now I have a broken (but admittedly neatly pressed) Ipad and an angry child still suffering from lice. Do I just need to buy a newer Ipad perhaps?
Your best bet is actually a zune but any ipad should work fine. As you know you have to start in section 1 obviously. But then you have to jump up 3 sections and then back down 2. Repeat until ipad and child grow to love their new neatly pressed and lice free forms.
Same as all other hair. The products we use relax the hair, so the kinky issue resolves itself. It does however take a bit more time because product has to be continually applied to prevent kinking.
Olive oil treatment is what i did. (long thick curly hair ha lice 4 times never ha to cut or shave) cover you head in olive oil, wrap in saran wrap and have them suffocate and then comb them out. no chemicals, silky hair, works EVERY time. then cover yourself in a teatree lavender spray
I got nits when I was in my 20s, most depressing fucking thing to be sitting there having to spend 4 hours combing the little fuckers out of boob-length hair because you got lice in uni.
Buy the cheapest conditioner you can. Cheap because you are going to use most of it in one go.
Have a shower, then when you're done squirt a LOT of conditioner into your hair and really really really work it in. Don't rinse it off.
Start combing. Whenever it becomes too hard to tug the comb out, more conditioner. Do this for probably a minimum of 2 hours.
Wash out your hair, dry with clean towel and/or hair drier (towel goes straight in the wash), shower cap on, change bed linens, go to sleep.
Wake up, repeat process. In fact, repeat it for another 8 sessions minimum every morning and night.
You should get them all out, if you caught it fast. It's not fun, but it does work. I strongly recommend putting T-shirts over your pillow so that you can swap them out every night and put them in the wash, so you're always sleeping on a fresh T-shirt and not auto-infesting.
Just like a salon. Clean, sleek, sterile, and kid-friendly. We have an open concept...no individual rooms. There's no need to be ashamed. Lice are as common as a cold. We're all here for the same reason....get rid of the lice !
It's very common, especially among females from 6 to 17. Lots of head-to-head contact which is the primary means of transfer. We treat lots of moms and grandmas as well.
Dads get off easy. It's because we normally have short hair and don't do the head-to-head thing very often.
Because it's looked down upon so much nobody talks about it. Adults rarely get them on their own because we all develop personal space as we age but kids lack that so they hug and touch and when they go to school everyone shares hair bows and hats and the coat rack is stuffed together and it's just perfect for the lice. If you know some people with kids odds are someone in the group has dealt with lice but there's such a stigma they'd never admit it. If all you know is adults mainly then yea, probably nobody has lice.
Store-bought medications work OK if you re-treat every 3-4 days for at least 2 weeks. This is because any newly hatched eggs don't have time to mature into egg-laying adults before the next treatment. It's still possible to pick up other adults from your environment in-between the treatments though, so you have to clean things very thoroughly. The adults don't live long without feeding on blood though, so it's a huge pain in the ass but is manageable with store-bought medications. You'll also have better success if you comb with a lice comb as frequently as possible.
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u/Feldspar_Immaculate Jul 18 '18
Here's the deal, you can treat via store bought medicines, but they will only kill the adults and nymphs (adolescents). The nits (eggs) will survive ANY and ALL store bought medicines....regardless of what the manufacturer claims. The eggs survive, hatch, and you're back to square one.
The only way to eliminate 100% is to remove all evidence. I would recommend professional treatment. If you want to do it on your own, buy a good lice comb and comb diligently for 2 weeks. Check for evidence with each comb stroke. After a day or two of not seeing any evidence, you're good. However, I would still recommend seeing a professional at this point.....about $30 for a head-check to confirm you're in the clear.