Head Lice

Just to let ya know! I can't tell you how long she's had it, probably not very long though you really should treat her again. Make sure she washes her head every day! I'm told that lice like unwashed hair. You should also treat everyone else's hair in your household, just for precautions. If the treatment doesn't work, there is a great home remedy! Before she goes to bed, rub olive oil through her hair and on her scalp. Then, put a shower cap over her head overnight, and wash it out over night. It really works! I had head lice when I was younger and my mother used it on me!
Good luck!

Please dont reply unless you know what your talking about!!! lice does not stay out of clean hair! In fact they like clean hair! There eggs can not stick to dirty greasy hair!!!!! Any one needs real advice about head lice, feel free to e-mail me!

I saturated my daughters long hair with a hair conditioner called le kair cholesterol plus.I put a shower cap on her head and she slept with it on all nite..I bought it at sally beauty supply.It completely eliminated the headlice.

I know how you feel, cwainwright. My son got his lice after spending two weeks at camp and I had no idea how long they had been there, and of course the camp did not do anything for it or even let me know! ...I was very, very mad believe me.

I tried nix on his head like 3 times. All 3x it came back/. I finally just got on the internet and looked up head lice. Thats when I came across licex and I just went ahead and ordered it because it said it had all natural ingredeints, and my son has really sensitive skin. And you know what? It actually worked! I asked our doctor about it and he looked at the ingredients and said they were all safe for kids.

So anyway the lice have stayed gone now for 2 months. Thankg oodness. It worked for me anyway.

Well I first got lice when I was 12 years old. I am now 14 and I finally got rid them. I had tried everything, from sitting with olive oil on my head, putting mayonaise all over my scalp, to using baby oil. My doctor kept telling my parents to shave my head. I eventually did have to get rid of my long blonde hair and cut it really short. It was emotionally devistating to me. My mom was really worried about using the shampoos so much because the chemicals in them caused cancer. None of them worked, and the bugs just kept coming and coming. Well about 6 months ago I went and got my hair professionally dyed. A week later the bugs were gone and all the nits that I had didn't hatch. I know getting your hair professionally done cost like $100, but after you spend so much money just trying and failing to get rid of the bugs, its totally worth it.

Does anyone know? I have heard that chemically treated hair, such as dyeing, won't get lice. Is this true. My daughter has had a horrible problem with lice for the last year. On and off. We have tried all the remedies. They work for a while, but reinfestation is always a problem. School, school bus, church groups in close quarters, slumber parties. The list of possibilities goes on. My husband and son haven't gotten them, but they both keep their hair extremely close cut. I haven't gotten them and I dye my hair as well as use styling products. If it's true that color treated hair doesn't get lice I will definitely color her hair.

Try to get yourself a natural head lice remedy, one that contains Neem Oil. The Neem tree is native to India, is known as the ‘Cure All’ tree and has been used as a natural insecticide for thousands of years. When you mix this with other natural ingredients that kill both lice and nits you have a totally safe treatment.

If you want to suffocate the live lice coat your hair in baby oil, put on a showercap and leave it on overnight. Put on a sweatband to stop the drips. This will suffocate them.

In the morning straighten your hair with hair straighteners to pop the nits. Repeat this in 7 days to catch any nits that hatch that you missed. Use mousse or hairspray every day to simulate 'dirty' hair which lice find hard to attach to.

We got hold of a book called 'Live Lice Free - The Head Lice Handbook.' This had everything we needed to know to get rid of head lice. Their remedy worked for us and killed all the nits and lice.

Hope this helps.

Is it possible for body lice to be in your hair? There's been times where I've been brushing my hair and little bugs fell out and landed on my shirt. I tried doing a head lice treatment but that didn't seem to work. I'm thinking that the bugs were in my bed somehow and crawl into my hair during the night. Is that possible? How do I get rid of them