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Latest post on 20 December 2012 - 21:08

For your daughter: wash hair with the nit shampoo. Then sit in front of TV under a bright light and go through her hair strand by strand from one side to the other and from top of the haed to back of the neck, (with my daughter this took two or three full length Disney movies) picking out the nits as you see them (I found often even the metal nit comb didn't comb them out properly). Repeat the combing of wet hair 2 or three days morning and evening, keeping hair tightly braided the rest of the day. Wash all hats and fabric hair accesories, lay metal and plastic hair clips in bailing water or bleach, put non washable hair accessories in plastic bag in feezer. Wash all bedding , stuffed animals blankets as hot as they tolerate (consider changing bedding every day until the nits are gone), vacuum carpets, sofas and carseats. Inform your daughters class teacher so other children can be checked if they have nits , otherwise your daughter will go bck to school and get them back. Same for everyone shehas close contact with. In the future keep your daughters hair pulled together or even better braided whenever she will be in school or other placces with lots of kids. Discourage the sharing of hair accessories, brushes and hats Consider to put leave in conditioner or hair oil on her hair before you braid it (it will discourage lice from climbing up) For yourself would suggest to get a hair color, I heard that the chemicals in hair dye also kill the lice, and have someone go through your hair with a (different from your daughters) nit comb. My suggestion exactly. My 8 and 3 yo DDs had it last summer - consequently myself and even a dolly got it as I did not know what I was doing. We had them for a month. I seriously still have nightmares about lice and nits. One very, very important thing to know when you are dealing with lice is that the treatments and medicated shampoos etc only work on lice and not their nits. *The shampoo will kill the lice but the nits will still be alive*. You must remove EVERY SINGLE tiny nit or else you will have a re-infestation. It is a two step process. You must remove any and all lice and their nits in a different fashion. If you use the shampoo and believe that it kills the lice and their nits you will find yourself in big trouble as I did. Through conversation with many other Mom's this is where it also got away from them as the treatments and lit sent home from the school is not clear about this. After the lice treatment you must go through the hair strand by strand and physically remove any nits. They are usually closer to the scalp. They appear white after they have been laid, turn darker before they hatch ( aurgh just a second I just had massive flashbacks and an skin crawl) and after they hatch there is often a clear shell of the egg still attached to the hair shaft. Google nits and look at the images to make sure you know what you are looking for. General rule of thumb is that if you see something that looks like a little flake try to dust it away. If it falls away it is just dry scalp but if it is stuck like glue to the hair shaft it is a nit. Combing does not always work. Like Lillie34 I had to section off my DD's hair and scour through each piece strand by strand. When I found a nit I had to use my thumb nail to pull it down and off of the hair shaft and then put it in to a paper cup that I then put right outside in the trash. This does take hours. We also had movies, lollipops, a very strong work light and my reading glasses. It is not fun let me tell you but you can spend hours doing this miss just one stupid tiny little nit and have a total re-infestation so you must be very diligent when looking or it is all for not. I washed bedding daily and put big plastic garbage bags over our pillows under the pillow cases until I was sure they were completely gone. I also laundered every stuffie or put it in the freezer over night and they did not come back out until I was sure the lice were gone. I also threw out all of our hair brushes. Every time after using a hairbrush or hair accessary it went in to the freezer. I know it sounds crazy but I am a crazy neat freak and they completely took over my house and life for a month. You need to get in control and stay in control from the get go . Unless, you just want to pull a Brittany and shave everyone's heads which I promise you I did consider. There is more. Like Lillie mentioned you can very easily do all of this and send your child back to school only to have them catch another louse at school. You have to educate them not to share sun hats, swim towels, dress up and costume hats at places like Kidzania. I had one nurse tell me that all of the young girls pass lice around like wildfire because they have their hair down at school and are constantly hugging each other. When they hug they have their heads touching and have their hair falling all over each other. Also check to make sure your child's class does not have a hat box. Hat box = lice paradise! I have received 4 emails from DD's school in the last month about more and more students in her class having lice. I buy spray in conditioner and add tea tree oil and lavender to it. I spray her hair every morning and tie it up in a high pony and a braid or a french braid. I know I have basically said what Lillie did but she is spot on and you must do it. The only way to get rid of the lice is to remove every nit and remember where there is lice there are nits and where there are nits there are lice.

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