Head Lice

OMG we have such a problem with head lice in our schools . Head lice originates from dirt but once it has found a head it prefers a cleaner head . It is extremeley easy to catch from someone else and in the school's the younger kids always have their heads so close to each other and they get passed like this . My daughter got lice one year from a friend who had it and had not bothered to inform us . It took forever to get rid of it and after repeated trips to the doctor's they finally had to give me something . The Nix they use to treat it would not work on her head and I ended up having to use something called Lindane which is incredibly strong . I read a lot about it on the internet and found out that a new breed of lice is starting and it is resilient (didn't spell that right ), to the Nix therefore not working as well as it used to . I spent months washing my house from top to bottom every day with Javex and going through my child's head trying to get rid of them . I don't know who has a bigger phobia of them today , her or myself . To get rid of them you have to wash down your whole house , bag anything like combs, teddy bears etc where they may be trapped .Wash all clothing in the hottest water you have and then make sure to run it through your dryer .You have to do this everyday til they are gone . Then you have to go through your child's head and make sure all the nits are gone . They have nit combs for this but I didn't find they were much help in my child's hair . I ended up having to cut her hair short and would try to go through her head outside (of course it is too cold for this at this time of the year ). So I ended up having to go through her whole head one strand at a time to make sure they were finally all gone . It is a tiring process and a very disgusting one and I believe they should set up something at the school's so the children's head could be went through on a regular basis .Around here the lice always seems to generate from the same family who doesn't believe in getting rid of them so they are always in the school .

hi, well first of all, head lice starts and passes around when another person has it, they say it only goes to clean hair, i haven't personally had it myself but i know of people who have had it and it's horrible. the way to get rid of it is by using a lotion and then it kills the lice and after that they need combing out of the hair.

Every kid at my kis school just got checked for head lice last week,they did find some kids there with head lice ,ive never had it and my kids have never had it.I dont know how it starts ,but i know they can jump from one head to another.I seen on tv they got this new vaccumm thingy that you can suck them out. Good luck getting rid of your head lice.

Head lice is passed through direct hedd contact and it's easy to do. It particularly occurs amonst kindy children and Junior Primary, as they put their heads close together, touch one anothers hair, etc. Also sharing combs & hats can help lice to spread. Head Lice doesn't care whether your hair is clean or not. My daughter had it regularly through school, not just when younger, mainly because her best friend often had it. It requires constant treatment with a special shampoo, then removal of the eggs with a nit comb. I prefer the plastic combs as the metal ones pull the childs hair out. Plus, an electric robi comb is excellent. They kill all lice, but not the eggs. My experience lead me to use all 3 methods numerous times. Just one treatment won't be enough.

let me tell you, I'm glad that i've never had it. But my teachers thought that I had it once. That was embarrassing. Some bully threw gravel at me and some stuck in my hair, and the teachers noticed some of the gravel and sent me home. Sure, I got to go home early, but it was embarrassing and I ended up going to the doctor only to find out that it was just gravel and not lice. LOL. I can't imagine how much it cost my parents to find out that it wasn't even that I had lice. I hope not much. I just remember the doctor telling us that it was gravel and then me remembering that I had had that gravel thrown at me that day.

Every year I get notes home from the school about head lice going through them yet again. Luckily, neither I nor any or my kids have ever had it, but I know a lot of people who have. I don't know where it comes from, although I know it is a popular wivestale that it comes from dirt. We have a product here I believe it's called Nix which most people use to get rid of a lice infestation. Also all items are to be washed and dried in the dryer and if this is not possible, then the items should be bagged and placed in the freeze for 48 hours. Unfortunately, it seems as though the lice are apparently becoming immune to Nix so sometimes it takes a few applications to get it to work and I've heard of many people spending hours going through their kids hair strand by strand and picking out the lice by hand. Hopefully I'll never have to do this.

A year ago my grandson had head lice. He was staying with us so I had to do the honors of shampooing his hair and removing the lice and nits. The nits are hardest to remove. They are especially difficult to see on light hair.

Head lice are ectoparasites, they are usually transfered from one child to another when they sit too close or when sharing their secrets in years then heads come close and lice jump from one to another. There are medicated shampoos to remove lies, they can be removed manually as well.

There is lots of info on the web, and lice are able to live off of heads, in fabric like hats, and hooded coats, and on shared brushes and combs. They make us feel disgusted and dirty, but present no real health hazard. Kids (and adults) are more at risk from improperly applied toxins to kill them. I worked in a preschool, never got it there, but I got it from a child that lived with me who went to a daycare. Many of the commercial poisons are now pretty ineffective, as lice have become resistant. Here is what we did at the day care, along side what the county health was recommended. This WILL NOT HURT OR POISON your child, but will be effective a controlling the lice. Wash hair, apply generous amount of mayonaise (county health said olive oil), leave on for two hours or more under a shower cap. Using a lice comb (looks similar to flea comb for animals) comb through entire head of hair. The lice will be immobilized and they and the nits will comb out. Flush louse residue, by wiping off the comb with a tissue then flushing. Wash hair as usual. Every night for two weeks (life cycle) apply conditioner, comb with lice comb, then wash hair. Vacuum house, especially backs of chairs. Wash bedding in hot water, and dry on high heat. Put soft toys in a bag and leave it sealed for two weeks. Some people say that regular use of a hot blow dryer prevents lice. I also found that by dyeing my hair, I could comb them out, and they had all turned turquoise green from the chemicals in the dye. A nurse said she worked public health etc. forever and never got lice, but she believes that they were kept down or off by her hairspray. I know someone who kept getting reinfested, and she finally figured out it was from buying a hooded coat that someone with lice must have tried on, cause once she washed the coat it was under control. Best thing you can do is to reinforce with your grandkids not to use combs and brushes that belong to others, and not to share hats. Bike helmets and Batting helmets are okay, they are hard surface.

The little critters are resistant and stubborn. They can only live on human heads and they find a way to keep their numbers strong. The lice comb it actually the best thing to use. It does not matter if you are clean to begin with, it happens. Especially kids seem to share them freely and then you have to tend to all in the family. Again the comb is the best with the special shampoo you select and treat every 10 days til no more. Wash all your bedding and stuffed animals and pillows, brushes and everything. Good luck if you are experiencing this trial!!

Thank God I've never had head lice and my kids or grandkids haven't either. I know that head lice can jump from one person to another but I'm not sure where it comes from or how it starts, I've heard too many different stories about that, but the product 'Rid' will get rid of it, so I hear.

i have never heard about this

A lot of the medicines and shampoo's out there don't work to get rid of the lice now. anyway best way i know how to get rid of them is to pick them out one at a time and through them into a pot of boiling water to kill them. make sure you wash everything in the house. blankets, pillow's, curtains vaccuum the floors and couches. and wash stuffed animals. these little buggers like to hide in all those things.