i am battleling lice on my 10 year old daughter for the past year..... i have tried it all......and every time

Question

i have tried it all.....and every time she goes back to school she gets it again....over and over and the school nurse says that i didnt do the treatment right....and other parents are going throught the same thing as me any help out there would be helpful

Answer 1

Other people already said to make sure you treat all the furniture and and cloth or fabric items, carpets, curtains, toys,etc. Then do the shampoo, make sure you comb her hair with the lice comb and do that everyday for a few days, then re-shampoo her hair in 7-10 days. recomb. Afterwards, take an old pump hairspray bottle and fill up with Listerine. Spray her head everytime she walks out the door to go to school or at any of her friends houses. Listerine is a repellent the lice hate the smell and will not stay if they go onto her head. Also, try putting Skin So Soft on her head and wrap up hair in towel overnight the smell gets them and also the oil smothers them if she still gets after the shampoo. Unfortunately, people think lice are on dirty kids, but it's the clean ones that keep them because their hair is good and clean to latch onto. Don't worry, the Listerine smell goes away after it dries.

Answer 2

I've heard you can use coconut shampoo and conditioner daily on the hair cause the lice doesn't like the oils in it. And they also sell an electronic comb that detect and kill the lice without chemicals. I bought one of these for about $30 at Walgreen's. It is call a Robi Comb. If you can't find one at the local drugstores you can find them online. Try looking on Ebay, too. They work good if you use them like the directions say. They are expensive but worth the money since you spend that much on chemicals anyway. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

If you have done the hairwash the first and follow-up times, made sure every last nit was removed from the hair, put stuffed toys in bags, washed everything washable in hot water, and cleaned and covered any upholstered furniture (and keep her off it); then if I were you I would tie up her hair or otherwise cover it and tell the school she's wearing a hat until whoever else has lice gets rid of them.

Once she gets rid of them, though, you do have to do a head-check just about every day in order to head off any bigger problems that may go undetected later.

Answer 4

Have you treated the items in your home such as her stuffed animals, clothes, furniture, carpet, etc.? These things can live everywhere. I would put all the toys in a trash bag for a period of time (google lice remedies), same with pillows and cushions. Call a professional exterminator. It is a pain. My daughter had lice when she was a 2nd grader (many years ago) and her hair was waist length and thick. What a challenge!! Luckily we got rid of it within 2 treatments.
Best of Luck to You!!

Answer 5

First of all Lice is very hard to get rid of, if you do not do the treatment properly its almost inevidable that its gonna return. Doing the treatment means washing every sheet pillow blanket the whole nine yards, another great way is to spray everything carpets sofa's beds etc with lysol. good luck also in my experience the nix was the best for the hair treatment

Answer 6

you must go to the school board and tell them whats going on before it gets really out of hand more then this.
and tell them they need to check things out for them selves and see how meny other moms are haveing the same problem and then they should do something to help all of you thats haveing to deal with this.
it's comeing from someones child and getting into the class rooms.
call the school board soon before it get all over the hole school.

Answer 7

If human lice, you can try shampoo (kwell shampoo) if not try using specialized comb.And you can't eradicate this completely until there is one child in the nursery infected with lice.Hope ths helps. God bless!

Answer 8

Kosha,that is a good remedy for a dog that has mange, Used motor oil has a very high content of sulfur. I would not subject a child to it.

Answer 9

some one at the school isn't treating their child. You also have to de=lice the house!

Answer 10

You can take half vinigar and half water and rinse her head with it and rinse it out do it everyday.Lice hate it.