Help! My daughter has lice with the bugs and everything....creeping me out. Ive washed everything but?

Question

I just dont think we have gotten them all that way. I want to get rid of them for sure. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, they are persistent and very hard to kill. You will have to treat everyone in the house, including yourself, and every room in the house and your automobiles. You have to wash her hair with the lice killing shampoo (don't use more than one a week or you can damage her scalp). Very slowly and deliberately comb through her entire head of hair to remove bugs and nits. Either rinse the comb with water and wash everything down the drain between sections or use paper towels to clean the comb and then seal the paper towels in a ziploc bag. Remove all bed linens and replace with clean ones. All bed linens and clothes must be washed in hot water (at least 130 degrees or hotter and dried in dryer with hottest setting for at least 30-45 minutes. Use bleach on anything that will allow it. Put all pillows in the dryer for at least 30-45 minutes (every day for the next two weeks). Soak all brushes and combs in alcohol when not in use (for the next two weeks or longer). Vacuum your entire house, matresses and furniture and remove the vacuum cleaner bag, seal it in a ziploc bag if possible and dispose of it in the outside trash can. Comb through hair daily with lice comb to make sure you get out all of the nits, and retreat after a week. Additionally, they have a devise called a "Robi-Comb" which you can use in between treatments and periodically to make sure they don't ever come back.

I know it sounds like a lot to do, but that is what it takes to totally eradicate the little buggers. They are relentless. I wouldn't freak out too much. It doesn't mean your child is dirty. Quite the contrary. The CDC in Atlanta stated that the cleanest children usually get it worse because the lice need clean, dry hair to attach the eggs (nits) to. I wouldn't worry too much, it is quite a common problem with youngsters.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

The most important thing about getting rid of lice is to make sure you pick out all the nit's, lice eggs in your daughter's hair. If you do not, they will continue to come back. This can be very difficult in long hair. Over the counter treatments like NIX work just fine usually.

I would wash everything you can in hot water. Anything you cannot wash, encase in plastic for one week. Do this for her toys, if applicable.

If this does not work, there are some new topical Rx that are available from the doctor if you need them. Sometimes you can prescribe antibiotics for a month, because when the lice bite the child, the blood eaten has the antibiotic which kills bacteria in the lice's gut that help it digest. If you decide you need to go to the doctor, call the doctor first. They might not want you to come in and spread lice to all their other patients. They might just call you in something. I stress to you again, YOU MUST PICK OUT ALL THE NITS. Nothing the doctor can prescribe can kill the eggs.

The feeling you have of scratching, everyone gets when they are exposed to someone who has lice. Heck I got it now just typing this out. Don't worry you probably don't have lice. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

We had this difficulty for over a three hundred and sixty 5 days. Thank goodness we ultimately broke the cycle. the colleges indexed the following are not any more screening because they free money if the scholars bypass over college so lice is rampant. We homeschool and foolishly concept we would keep away from it. besides the undeniable fact that the cousins dont so each visit with the relations delivered abode hitchhikers, we've realized to do a head verify each and every time our young children play with the different youngsters. That way in the experience that they p.c.. up hitchhikers we capture it faster extremely than later. As for the nits.. My youngest has no longer obtainable hair.. the hatched eggs only wont come out. The unhatched eggs got here out no difficulty with oil besides the undeniable fact that the hatched ones are stuck there. So we were reducing his hair slowly to get rid of them. We didnt favor it to be significantly short so we were wating for it to strengthen out somewhat of extra which will get all the left overs. see you later as its been more advantageous than 2 weeks and there are nevertheless no insects then you definately do not ignore that the nits are only hatched eggs and are of no probability of turning into lice.

Answer 4

My daughter used to bring them home from school. I tried the stuff they sell in stores, the chemical treatments, and watched lice continue to crawl, even while that chemical was on the hair. Useless, waste of money and time. None of them work.

I experimented with mayonaisse (that worked, but left stinky hair). I decided to try cooking oil. That did the trick. Take 1/2 cup vegetable oil, and slowly apply it to the hair, starting at the back of the neck and working it through the hair and scalp. (wrap a towel around the body first, or oil will drip everywhere). Massage the oil in very, very well and coat every bit of every hair. Take a plastic bag and cover the hair (hold it in place with a clothespin or two). Leave it on the head for at least 3 hours. Then shampoo the hair (use dish soap and do it at the kitchen sink. You will need to soap and rinse at least 3 times to get the oil out). Comb the hair, then sit in a sunny spot and use a very fine nit comb. Take a little bowl and put a few tablespoons of oil in it, and grab a decent pair of tweezers. You must go through the hair, very carefully, with the nit comb and every single nit or egg must be removed and squished with the tweezers. Drop things into the little bowl of oil.

After this treatment, every single day go through the hair again with the nit comb. You have to look at the hair as you comb it, looking carefully for nits. Many of those so called nit combs are not fine enough and are worthless. You want a metal one with extremely fine blades on it. A metal flea comb (sold in pet stores) might be best.

For one week solid, comb the hair daily and look for nits and eggs. You will miss some each time, so a week of this is necessary. If you daughter has long hair it can take upwards of an hour to go through her hair.

As for all the bedding and stuffed animals.... if you don't want to wash them again, put everything in big plastic garbage sacks, tie them shut and stash them in the garage for 2 months. Any eggs will hatch and any nits will starve.

When my own kid used to get these things, it was from one neighbor she got them. These neighbor kids would come over and I could literally see nits all along their temples. After that I started looking at their heads every time they wanted to play. I wouldn't tell them I was looking for lice, but they usually had them so bad I could see the things.

Insects breathe through their bodies, and the oil will cover up their breathing holes. Good luck.

Answer 5

You have received good advise on how to get rid of lice, (over the counter shampoo for everyone, cleaning the house with hot water etc). You also need to check for the source of the lice. Check with your daughter's school, and parents of her friends. There must be children playing with your daughter that are infected. Good Luck!

Answer 6

hey hun...make sure you use tea tree oil (you can buy it in the medicine department at walmart) put a few drops in your shampoo (lice hate the smell) it will help get rid of them and keep you form getting them again. you will also have to clean the whole hose ,combs and all that good stuff...lysol (is a lot cheaper then the stuff specially made for lice) and it will kill the lice and disinfect your house all in one...another bonus is it makes your house smell great...oh and don't for get to use pinesol when you wash your laundry...it will kill the eggs and bigs...love daisy

Answer 7

If she still has bugs go and get some Kraft Real Mayonaise and put it all over her hair. Leave it on over night and then wash it out in the morning. Also rewash her bed clothes in extremely hot water. Dry them on the highest temp in your dryer or hang them outside. Put all her stuffed animals and things like that in trash bags and leave them there for at least a month. in the dark or out in the garage or attic. Also revaccum your house and as soon as you are done doing that take the vaccum outside and throw the bag away.

Answer 8

You need to wash her hair with a lice killing shampoo and while her hair is still wet, go thru it with a nit(lice egg) comb to remove the eggs(they kinda cement to the hair shaft).

Make sure all her bedding and such is washed in hot water as well.

Answer 9

I've heard that when people get lice, they need to soak their head/hair in mayonaise for at least 10 minutes.

Answer 10

Prescription from a doctor is the only way. Don't think just washing her hair will get rid of it, It wont. This stuff is highly contagious and will spread to others. I repeat....Take her to a doctor A.S.A.P.