update on worried about lice

First of all lice do not live in houses they live in people's hair. Secondly, they really only like clean hair. Lice are becoming a big problem these days and are getting more difficult to control. Young children put their heads together, wear each others hats etc and, bingo, head lice. My grandsons use conditioner and a nit comb every night in the shower and they have eliminated the problem. Get your children to put a good dose of conditioner in their hair and then comb it out with a nit comb. I believe the conditioner suffocates the nits and they are then removed with the comb. Also because the hair is coated their eggs can't stick to the hair. Hope this helps with your children's nit problem.

Last year, both of my daughters got lice from another little girl that they were playing with. It was an absolute nightmare to get rid of, especially since they were 3 and 2 at the time. The lice shampoo treatment didn't work at all. I finally bought a lice comb and sat them in the bathtub, put conditioner in their hair, and combed through it for HOURS until I got rid of them all. Even after that, I combed through their hair every night for a few weeks just to be sure that they were all gone. Personally, if it were my daughter I wouldn't allow her to go camping. I'm sure she'll want to play with the other children, and even though the chances are slim, she may still get it from them. I mean, think about how children play, they put their heads together to look at things and hug each other or wrestle. It would just be too much of a risk for me.

OH my dear I dont blame you for not letting her go. He should be more careing for your daughter so that she dont get it also. you are such a great mommy. Hugs

First let me say that my kids have had lice, and it was truly a nightmare to get rid of. And just when we got rid of it, ew'd get it back from some other kid at school. I swear I washed all the bedding in my house twice a week between Chrismtas and the end of the school year. I am so glad it's nto happenign now that school is over. Where I live, they don't make you stay home from school because of lice. lice is not considered a health risk, only an iconvenience. Don't be surprised it children's services isn't that worried about lice, either. Having lice does not mean you aren't cleaning properly. In fact, the lice problem is getting larger and larger now because the lice are becoming immune to permethryn, which is the killing ingredient in most lice shampoos. So, please don't give your ex-husband a hard time for not being clean because of a lice problem - that is likely not true. I know it wasn't for us. Lice can live up to two weeks away from hair. They do not jump or fly, however. So, your daughter could go camping if she brought her own bdding and didnt' hare a tent with the other kids, and didn't touch heads with anyone or share a hat or towels.

I wouldn't let her go either. Lice isn't easy to get rid of once it's there, and if it's an all out infestation it's even harder.

Hey I wouldn't let her go if I were you, those things can get pretty bad and if your daughter has long hair, that makes it worse. Since it is your ex. what about asking someone who handles your case. Because if this was a school issue, she wouldn't be allowed to go to school. So if the public school protects children from getting lice by not allowing the infected person in school, why should she have to go with her Dad and take that chance of getting infected?

You are doing the right thing. I would also tell him that it really isn't all that hard to rid the lice. All he has to do is take all bedding and wash every single thing. He also needs to vacuum like crazy in every room. And most important, wash everyones head and hair stuff. Then spray all the stuff toys and couches and all that down with the lice spray. Some people get really stressed when it comes to lice and then they panic and then get over whelmed and don't end up cleaning everything right. It really only takes one full day of doing everything step by step and then repeat in a week. I would keep her away for 2 weekends, just to be safe. Daycare and schools will send her home for 24 hours and then they even ask for the bottle of lice shampoo for proof that her head was washed with the lice stuff. So I hope she doesn't get it. Tell him to do everything the right way and then things should be good.

Oh that is too bad- I mean for the kids that live there- Lice is terrible- I would not let her go either- then you will have to deal with that when she comes home- Hopefully he will wash the walls, blankets , rugs, furniture- etc. soon- or those poor kids will get it and keep getting it!

Oh hun, I can COMPLETELY understand. My oldest daughter who was 3 at the time (she is now almost 10) kept getting lice from her fathers house. I went through this for roughly 5 months. I would clean clean clean at my house just to make sure (didn't ever find any lice on the remaining 4 of us though, thankfully). I bought the lice spray and sprayed what I couldn't wash in hot water and dry in a super hot dryer. It was awful. Every 2 weeks, I was treating that poor baby's hair for lice and using that nit comb to get them out. I thought it was awful because she wasn't in day care (I did daycare from my home and did a constant check on the kids there just to make sure--once you get a case of those things, they are super hard to get rid of in the house). We were spending 20-30 bucks every 2 weeks getting this stuff done. My ex was saying that they were coming from MY house because HE didn't have them. I asked him to then explain it to me how it could be coming from my house because the rest of us didn't have them--and my hubby has long dark hair and a full dark beard and mustache. He couldn't and wouldn't listen to me so I kept up with this til New Years Eve (all of this started in August). I was due to treat her hair again and I looked in her head to see if she had any nits and sure enough she did (she had been with her father xmas day and the day after). So I decided to let it go and not say a word. Sure enough, her father was calling me that evening saying that he was brining her back. I was like 'Why? Is there anythign wrong?' And he explained that the lice were back and I explained that I had just treated her head less than 7 days ago so I could NOT as per directions on the box, treat her head again that soon. I stated that I understood why he wanted to bring her back and that if needed I could take her to the family doctor to see what they recommended and that SOMETHING had to be done because these lice were coming from SOMEWHERE. So when he brought her back a couple hours later, he had gotten a buzz cut and had virtually NO hair. I had read somewhere that putting mayonaise in a lice ridden head and putting plastic wrap over the hair over night would kill off those critters by the next morning. So that it was I did. I told my daughter I was making a Jessie Salad (her name is Jessica) and she was fine with it. Washed the mayo out of her hair the next morning and ran the nit comb through and NEVER had another problem. This child still REMEMBERS all of this---even the Jessie Salad part. It used to break my heart to sit in the bathroom floor with her and take that comb through her hair several times a week to make sure we got all the nits. The sink would be COVERED with them. Good thing is though---after her father did the buzz cut to HIS head, there wasn't EVER another problem with the lice. At least I made my point. I hated being that way though but he just wouldn't understand any other way. I wish you luck with the ex on this---they can be a tough breed.

I think he needs to worry about fixing the problem in his house before the camping anyhow. Doesnt he want it all cleared up? I know i would. It isnt fair on those other kids for a start, and wouldnt be fair on you or your daughter if she was to get them. Hope he fixes the problem soon. Best wishes

like i said to another women not to long ago i don't know if you have it in your country but where i am from Australia there is a comb called nab comb and it is battery oprated and there is a compartment and you put the comb througth the hair and if you catch the lice or eggs it goes into the compartment but when your finished you have to put a solution in the compartment to kill them then you wash it out with warm water then you can use it on someone else. thankyou for this discussion

I don't blame you for not taking your daughter over there until the problem is properly resolved, but my dear, head lice do not live in peoples houses. Head lice cannot live away from the warmth, and food the host provides for longer than 24 hours. It used to be thought that a nit could hatch away from the human. We have since learned that the nit (lice egg) needs the warmth of the head in order to incubate. Much like a chicken sitting on an egg. Therefore all the time spent cleaning the laundry, house, and bagging up stuffed animals would be much better spent making sure all lice and nits are manually removed from the child's head. Furthermore, all family members and close contacts should be checked in order to rule out exposure issues, and if found to have head lice, properly treated. Head lice are spread through head to head contact. Not from sheets or pillows. In all actuality, when the children come in contact while tossing and turning in their sleep, is the way the lice get passed from one to another.Be careful in choosing a product if your daughter is found to have head lice. Please choose one that is non toxic. Another way to check is by running a lice comb through the hair. We recommend the Terminator. Please continue to check her for three weeks after the suspected contact with an infested person. Keep in mind that getting head lice is not a hygiene issue, and having head lice should be no more embarrassing than having a case of the chicken pox. For more info about head lice visit www.licesolutions.org