Is cutting my daughters long hair really going to help get rid of the lice I've been fighting for 3 months?
446795
dont cut it too short. instead get a good anti-lice shampoo! yes they are avilable in the market and are not that expensive.
1131715
You can get it at walmart in the pharmacy section.I found this awesome thing that helps you find all the nits which is what you need to do. Look online for neon nits. You spray this pink stuff in their hair, comb it out and the nits show up bright pink. My daughter just had it and I was comletely obsessed with it. I'm sure you have heard all of the advice. You have to do the oil thing and comb comb comb and look through little sections cut the hair in a cute but SHORT hair style. No more RID or NIX shampoo cause it affects the central nervous system. Make sure your child's friends don't have it. You have to do the overnight oil treatment every four days for a month. Each time washing sheets blankets and pillows in hot water and drying for 20 mintues high heat. You can't get rid of it until all the nits aregone. The nits you want to find are very close to the scalp. The tea tree oil smells like turpentine, I would only add maybe 10 drops to a cup of olive or coconut oil. The olive oil would be good enough by itself as long as you do all the other steps along with it. Also bag up all the stuffed animals for 14 days at least. Feel free to email me  bodywrap@mhtc.net
207082
go to the doctor for removal, they can tell if it is best frozen or cut out, a very simple process. I would not use and over the counter med on scalp because the hair around it can cause infection and it is a longer process to remove that way. There are different types of warts too so going to the doctor is best. Good luck.
125975
The first thing your friend should do is call the school and complain that her son keeps getting reinfested with head lice. Someone in school, probably in his class has them and isn't getting rid of them so it's become a cycle. The school nurse should be checking the kids in his class and sending the ones home who have them. They should not be allowed back in school until they are lice free. Your friend needs to get a fine tooth comb, it has teeth that are close together to remove the eggs and the lice. Dip the comb in a container of apple cider vinegar or white vinegar mixed with water: 1 parts water with 3 parts vinegar. Comb through the sections of the hair. Continue doing this until she has removed all lice and eggs. She may have to empty and refill the container with the vinegar and water solution. She should shampoo the hair afterwards. She should check his hair daily to see if there is sign of reinfectation. I would repeat the vinegar process every couple of days if she needs to. She also has to strip all the beds and wash the sheets and blankets with hot water and detergent. If the bed pillows have covers on them remove them and wash them also, if the pillows don't have covers and are inexpensive ones she might want to consider getting new ones. Vacuum all rugs and sofa etc. All clothing including pajamas should be washed with hot water and detergent. The same goes for jackets, hats, towels etc. Check everyone else in the household to make sure they are not being passed from one family member in the household. Any child he plays with who is scratching their head most likely has them too. My granddaughter had this problem for over a month. I used a pharmacy solution that kills both the egg and the live lice, it got to be expensive to do this once a week and her exposure to the chemicals was of great concern to me. I did her hair with the vinegar solution instead one night. The next day I took her to school and told the nurse what I used. She said that doesn't work. HA! What did she know. It worked just fine and she was allowed back to school. Tell your friend also, to keep his hair cut short.\nP.S. There were 7 children in our family, we had head lice once and my mother used the vinegar and water solution with the fine tooth comb. So it works.
1119668
I would definitely tell CPS your concerns. You could tell the mom that if the kids have bugs in their hair anymore you're going to report her. Or just call CPS.
200988
Tea Tree Oil is the best solution. I worked in a hair salon and we were not allowed to work on anyone with head lice. I would tell people to go to the health store and purchase a bottle of tea tree oil and put a cap full of it in whatever bottle of shampoo they chose and also in their conditioner. you can also put it in a spray bottle. It smells very strong but I never had trouble again when I discovered this.Customers would return after using this product and be so grateful and amazed.
394623
I read in a magazine that if you use lice shampoo it will work, but I don't know for sure or how long before the test you have to use it. Check into it.
186329
when i was about 13 i went through a period when i lost a ton of hair.  At first it seemed to be just when i went to comb it after a shower - i would have a thick handful out every time.  My hairdresser told me to go to the doctor, just in case.  The doc said not to worry, its not that unusual, and was likely from stress or a recent sickness.  These things can mess with the normal rate that hair falls out, so that a whole bunch comes out all at once.   \n\nTHe whole episode lasted about 3 months, and i ended up losing about 1/4 of my hair. i couldnt tie my hair back, because you could actually see the stubble where the hair was coming back in.  It was rough for a while, but my hair all grew back, thick and healthy.   \n\nSo, i would recommend going to a doctor just in case.  But tell your daughter not to worry, because it should go away by itself and everything will grow back.\n\nHope this helps.
841644
Dip her hair in olive oil.  I know it sounds gross, but imagine head lice, or oil in hair?\n\nIt works because the lice need clean hair to move around in and breath.  If you dip your hair in olive oil, they can't breath.  Plus, the eggs of the lice can't hatch because the oil is sticking it all down.
20762
You know, I would like to see a response from a doc, or better yet a pediatrician, but I would say no, because the lice need hair to latch onto, and there aren't any pubic hairs on a newborn.\n\nAm I right?
824920
Registered Nurse here; Well hun, there are some home remedies, but i have yet to see any that work.  Your very best beat at killing the little pest, it to go to a pharmacy and ask the pharmacist to recommend a product for you.  There is Nix, this works great you repeat it after 7 days.  Comes with two doses.  Thanks for the opportunity to answer your question.  Also if money is a factor and your a student go to the school nurse, she or he will glady give you some shampoo to kill the lice.
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Head lice do not "jump" or "leap" from one person to another.  They aren't made that way.  The crawl.  That's all they can do.  And, yeah, lay lots and lots of eggs.  But, as to where they come from, God created them.  For what purpose...only He knows.  \n\nHere's some info for ya...\n\nNits are small yellowish-white (sometimes they look silver) oval shaped eggs that are "glued" to the hair shaft at an angle.  \nYou can't "catch" nits from another person.\nIt takes 7-10 days for a nit to hatch, and another 7-10 days for the female to mature and begin laying eggs.\nHead lice are clear in color when hatched, then quickly develop a reddish brown color after feeding, and yes they are visible right after hatching.  \nThey are about the size of sesame seeds.  \nHead lice are crawling insects.  They cannot hop, jump or fly.  \nHead lice do not thrive on pets.\nHead lice are parasites.  They need human blood to survive.\nThey live for approximately 30 days on a host and female louse may lay up to 100 nits.  \nHead lice off of their human host will starve.  In most cases, a head louse will not survive for more than 24 hours off of its human host.  \n\nThere are a lot of remedies out there for head lice from the utterly stupid to the "that just might work."  The only real thing that can get rid of them is dilligence.  YOU MUST TREAT AND THEN RETREAT IN 7-10 DAYS!  KEEP CHECKING THE HAIR CONSTANTLY FOR MORE NITS OR LIVE LICE.  LICE COMBS ARE THE GREATEST INVENTION SINCE LIGHT BREAD.  \n\nHere's a home remedy that actually worked for us.  It was cheap and effective.  \n\nSaturate the hair with conditioner (any kind will do) making sure you rub it into the scalp and on the hot spots (behind the ears and the back of the neck).  Leave on for 30-60 minutes then comb out with a LICE COMB.  Regular combs will comb out the dead ones, but it won't get the nits.  You can buy a lice comb set for about $8 at Wal Mart.  Rinse thoroughly with warm (not hot, not cold) water, combing while doing this as well.  \n\nYou also have to treat your furniture and carpets and bedding.  Wash all bedding and clothing in hot water with BLEACH!!  Use bedding spray (also available at Wal Mart) to treat the things you can't put in the washing machine.  Also make sure you spray your carpets, vaccuum then throw out your vaccuum cleaner bag.  \n\nHope this helps.
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Nix is the best thing to buy....you shampoo her hair normally, and while still wet, apply the Nix making sure you massage it in really well from scalp to the ends of the hair.  Let it sit the required time, and then rinse.  After that, you use the comb provided and "comb out" the nits and lice.  The Nix kills both eggs (nits) and the lice that were alive.  It's a rather gross process, but its the ONLY thing that ever worked for my daughters.  We lived in the south, so lice were and are quite prevalent, especially if you lived in the country as we did.\n\nAlso make sure you treat her stuffed animals and dolls and toys.  There is a spray to buy for the animals and dolls, and you can use Lysol to spray her plastic and hard toys with.  Wash ALL bedding (sheets, pillows and cases, bedspreads, etc.) in HOT water, with bleach if possible, and dry on high cycle.  This will rid the bedding, and don't forget to spray the mattress with the lice spray.  \n\nThis will get rid of them completely...just make sure your niece knows not to let anyone at school brush her hair, or to brush her own with anyone else's brush or comb.\n\nAnd CUTTING hair is NOT necessary!  My daughter had hair to her waist, and although the process seemed to take FOREVER (and we used two bottles of Nix to get her whole head treated), it was worth it because it did the job.  And NO, lice don't only come from people who are dirty/nasty, this is a common misconception.\n\nGood luck!\nPS...you can buy all these things at Walmart.
854592
To give me something to do for the 5 days it took me to get it out of my 4 kids hair, and the house. I hate lice. Ew. Darn school.
122877
You don't need to cut your hair.I recommend a product used by the US Army Rangers it is called LiceX.It is guaranteed to kill head lice in ten seconds.It is the best product to kill head lice.You can find more information or order it at: http://www.headlicekiller.com/
610792
If you have lice you need to get your parents to treat your scalp with some stuff made to kill the lice. That's probably what your doing home today. \n\nWho is the him that you cant get ahold of? I cant give you any ideas if I dont know who your trying to get ahold of or why. \n\nSorry!
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Please read this all the way through, my heart is with you. I have two boys 10 and 6 that did the same thing (flushing). Charging 10 cents every time I found the bowl full stopped my problem. But your daughter seems like she has hit rebellion already. My 6 year old became very sore and he learned his lesson at 4 about wiping. But with your daughter "dirty down there" is not going to work. She's 10 not 4, don't patronize her, think back to when you were 10. Let's face it we were all picking up info from friends about sex. You 3 parents have to get together as a group and realize she is not a child she is a young lady/woman. Lectures and threats are not going to work anymore. She needs to start making her own decisions, educated decisions. Talk to a gynecologist get facts about what could happen if she doesn't clean up her act. Pictures if necessary, of what these diseases can do to her body. She could pick up staf infection just to name one, and wind up in the hospital. (My husband being a fire fighter had a call at one time about a woman with an upset stomach. She wasn't a wiper either her whole body smelt of crap. When they got her to the hospital because no one wanted to check between her legs (which was where the real discomfort was) they found her vagina was infested, stuffed with maggots.)Please do everything in your power to educate her in a way that will help her to help herself make the right choices. Also is she happy with herself, looks, school, and friends. These are all very important to her right now. If she doesn't have it yet soon she will be starting her cycle. You think you have problems now, wait. This is the summer of change for your family. Make it that way, help her, she needs you all just to hear her, and realize she is not a little girl, or even a big girl, she is a young lady/woman. A new hair style, a light colored eyeshadow if not wearing makeup, a few new clothes, you might want to rethink the panty thing. Is she wearing panties that make her feel like a young lady/woman, or is she wearing widebottomed, widesided diaperwear. Help her to feel different about herself. Chin up, no one ever said this parent thing was easy, but think of the good times, keep an open mind, and email me if you need to. We have all been there in one way or another.