My sorry kid caught some lice

Lice and their eggs (nits) are fairly difficult to deal with effectively. At one time (in England, anyway) they were endemic and nearly everyone had them, then, in the 19th Century, better standards of hygiene meant that they were much more actively sought for and dealt with, often by shaving heads (which is why prisoners used to have their heads shaved or cropped very short). This resulted in lice getting a slightly undeserved bad name because having them indicated that you came from a dirty home or had dirty hair. Actually, this is not true at all. Lice actively prefer hair which is clean. They jump from one head to another very easily when heads are close ... something which happens with children at school a lot, of course. There are several ways of eradicating them successfully. Probably the most effective way is with a medicated shampoo or cream designed for the purpose and coupled with a fine-tooth comb. The stuff is not pleasant to use and doesn't smell very nice but it usually needs only one thorough application. My children never liked the combing much, either, even though their hair was straight! Recently I have seen electric combs which claim to be able to kill lice and deal with the nits by electrocuting them. These don't hurt the child, of course. It is only the lice and nits which come between the bars of the comb which get a shock! I don't know how effective these are - I guess it depends how thorough one is - but they would certainly save some time and the use of chemicals which are not pleasant and must be kept away from eyes, &c.

my youngest daughter had pretty thick hair and caught lice a couple of times and then two summers ago, she caught it from her best friend, after that, we cut her hair into layers (plus now she is 15). the best friend's parents felt so bad that their daughter gave our daughter lice that they bought the treatment for us! the think i hated about lice was all the laundry it causes!

Hi Jureathome, You need a special shampoo for this and follow the directions carefully. Make sure that you comb out all the nits. You may have to do the procedure more than once. Also, notify anyone whom your child has come into contact with including the school or they just keep recurring. make sure you wash all linens and pillows and get rid of any hairbrush she may have used.

Oh lice, it is for sure itchy... You can also try this, shampoo her hair with plenty amount to make sure it will make huge bubble and scrub her head lightly with white towelette. After doing it, you'll see lice stuck on the white cloth.

There is a shampoo type for it. You can buy it in the supermarket. You can use a small-tooth comb to brush her hair to remove lice out. And you can catch lice by hand. I think just spend few hours to do like that, lice on her hair will be gone all.

Hi jureathome, sorry your chid have lice...thats really not good however it is cureable....I think...there is something at the pharmacy call NIX that is suppose to be very good for treatment of lice...go pick up some and start treating your daughters head. Good luck...you also need to contact the parents of her cousins as well....

Oh it is pretty common with kids especially with kids who has playmates with lice which we parents would not know right? as if we inspect them one by one lol but my daughter was also infected by lice too. what i did was search those lice one by one lol i get sooo irritated and i also used a shampoo which is specifically for killing those pests. You could ask any pharmacies they have it, i just forgot the name, the bottle is white and it comes in sachets as well.. i also saw once on tv that you can also kill them if you soak your daughter's hair with conditioner for like 10 minutes.. i have not tried it though..

I think it is better to make the use of shampos to stay away from them. Now there many shampoos in our market which gives us the garuntee to get rid of them. So i think you can make use of them.