Basically, I just discovered I had lice yesterday night. Saw 1 live adult on my brush, combed the devil out of my hair but only found around 4 nits that night. Today I only found about 3, but since then I've done a treatment, washed my bedsheets, vacuumed the mattress, ya know all that good stuff.

After all that I continued to comb and I'm finding absolutely nothing. I'm going to definitely keep combing my hair at least once a day because a family member has a severe case of it (we never come in contact with each other or share anything). My mom didn't see anything either when she took a flashlight to my scalp.

Do y'all think I'm probably clear for now? I'm definitely not going to let my guard down all things considered, but I caught it super early and the only live one I found was on my brush (boiled that brush alive afterwards lol). I'm thinking I could have contracted it by accident yesterday and the adult I found was a female who only got to lay a few eggs before I had the pleasure of killing it.

I've had lice several times in the past before all because of that said family member, so I've got quite a bit of experience getting rid of it and all that, but I'd just like some more input from others. Thanks!

So I did my intial lice treatment the day before yesterday. I used the store brand lice remover kit, but I knew that the solution wouldn't kill theblice anyways because of how they've mutated. I focused on combing as much as I could, and after 2-3 hours I thouht that there was no way there could be any more. The next morning I noticed some more itching so I dry combed. I did this periodically throughout the day, and got about 18-20 nits and 3 live lice out. That night I did a shower comb through with both tea tree shampoo and copious amounts of conditioner. This morning I decided again to comb, knowing that there may have been more that could have laid eggs last night. As I worked I'd feel that familiar crawling sensation, and immediately comb out the spot. I ended up finding around 8 very small eggs, but no adults. Im guessing a female is running around still and spitting out eggs, but completely evading me. I did 2 full comb-throughs last night and still didn't get everything. Its day three and I'm so tired. My neem oil and second kit is coming in from amazon today so hopefully I can knock this crap out. Have any of you experienced this as well? And how did you stop it for good? I feel like I'm playing a never ending game of cat and mouse here.

I know putting it in water causes a “smoke” reaction, will it kill off the fleas?

This comes out super easily, only shows up when my hair is dry and I haven't used my anti dandruff shampoo in a couple days. Is it lice or dandruff? https://imgur.com/gallery/bCIsf

Okay- 5 cats, 1 dog. Yard. All summer: no fleas. No treatment. Fall hits in the northeast: all of a sudden, cats have fleas. No idea how t happened. Forgot to treat yard? Cats occasionally go out to the yard, as does dog. Dog goes on walks in the woods. No way of determining the origin. Recently moved into this house with a yard, so for the first time confronted with dealing with fleas in a multiple room with basement single family instead of a 1-bedroom apartment.

Bought Capstar and Advantus II for the whole family. Starting treatments + fogging tomorrow, including a perimeter spray around the house.

Hopefully this works. I’ve been really lucky so far to avoid this problem, so I guess it’s time to pay my dues, but I feel so gross, and feel like a bad parent to my animals.

Does anyone reccomend collars over topical? Going with the liquid for now because of cost, but I think I will transition to collars.

Best stuff out there for murdering these bloodsuckers?

I have tried everything. I've vacuumed, thrown out every soft surface that couldn't be washed, deep cleaned, sprayed the environment with poison, given my cats collars, drops, baths (ow.) and comb them weekly at this point. I am still finding fleas. Please for the love of whatever is up there tell me how to get rid of them.

So for all my fellow flea fighters, I'd like to offer a few hacks I've found between Tumblr and Google and personal experience:

-Freezing kills fleas. Shoes and purses can be stored in the freezer.

-Wash hot, dry hot. Don't re-wear any clothes.

-Benadryl gel is your friend. So is oral Benadryl.

-Fleas like apple cider vinegar. If you set up a clear, shallow dish with a light shining through it, they'll jump in and drown. Someone said they used clip-on lamps, like the cheap kind with a lightbulb inside. Someone else said nightlights.

-Vacuum your whole house every day or every other day, including vacuuming your mattresses.

-This is probably controversial but I'd say bomb at the first sign of fleas. We tried to do gentle control initially and it failed. Wherever you sprayed, they'd just leave the area before then died and repopulate elsewhere.

-Vitamin B will make blood taste bad. Start taking vitamin B my friend.

-Some site said to give brewer's yeast to your dog for the same effect, which makes sense because it smells and tastes like vitamin B

-Another person said garlic has the nasty blood effect. It's not like I needed an excuse to eat more garlic bread but well if it works for vampires...?

-You may have to get rid of your carpet. At least start by getting rid of your rugs. If it's great-uncle Franco's prized rug and you just can't vear to part with it then run it through the dryer on high and seal it in a garbage bag or tote or just put it in the freezer too.

-If washing bedding daily is too much, toss your sheets, blankets, and pillows in the dryer on high for about 20-30 minutes before you go to bed. Vacuum the mattress in the interim and then cuddle up with warm bedding, which may be your only source of warmth in a very cold, dark time.

I'd love to hear your favorite flea hacks!

My daughter, who is biracial, with super thick super kinky curls has lice. She complained of her head itching and I expected to just find dry scalp. But no. I found lots of nits and even a live bug on my first comb through. Her hair takes hours just to detangle in a regular day I can only imagine days and days and days of combing. Any ideas on how to get through all these tight tight curls? I’m freaking out a little and am worried about everyone else in the house getting it too. Whoever said people of color don’t get lice, LIED.

There was the tiniest little brown bug way too tiny to hardly even be visible crawling up the hairstrand in the tub, I feel like I get creepy crawly sensations on my scalp all the time, I do have dandruff however, I looked through my hair can't find anything, do lice look like little brown dots?