how can i get rid of head lice ?

Question

Is there any medicine for preventing from head lice

Answer 1

First take a deep breath, then educate yourself. Don't spray. These pestisides can get into you and your child's lungs and cause damage. Lice only live about 24 hours off of the head anyway.

I just went through this last month and it took nine days to get rid of it. I will tell you what I did. Because these are bugs, I distroyed thier home. They live on my and my child's head. I did treat with Rid, then started with the nit comb. I could not believe it, but there were still LIVE BUGS crawling around in my child's hair!!! I decided right then I could not rely on anything but myself. I got a bunch of bobby pins and started to work. TWICE A DAY EVERY DAY FOR 10 DAYS I parted combed and manually removed ALL NITS AND BUGS from both of my daughter's hair. Every time I found one, I was genuanly surprised. I thought I had gotten them all. But even after 2 days of not finding anything, there was that little black speck that would move if touched. It must have been a nit that I missed, or a bug that moved into the hair I already checked when I wasn't looking. Very easy to do. Yes, these things move, that is why you must be diligent and check EVERY DAY. After the ten days (the last 4 not finding anything), I checked every other day. Now I am checking for nits once a week, just in case, but have found nothing for almost 4 weeks.

After using the Rid and waiting the prescribed 3 days, we did mayo treatments with REAL mayo and left it on for 3-4 hours. This will smother any of the critters and kill them. I did this treatment 3 times. It makes your hair really soft and is a moiserizer for your scalp to aid in the scalp damage from the pesticide shampoo you are using. Use the Rid again after 7 days. Put away all of your dolls, and stuffed animals until you have completely gotten rid of all bugs and have been nit free for 10 days. Strip you bedding, pillowcases and pillows and put it in the DRYER for 30 minutes to kill any stray bugs every day for 10 days. Wash in hot water once a week. Vaccuum couches and floors every day for 10 days. Put all hair care things into two sealed plastic bags after dipping them into water that was boiling, but removed from the burner for 5 minutes after uses for 10 days. Remember to vacuum your car, car seats, ect. and it helps to expose it to the freezing air too.

When reading the web site provided below, pay attention to the life span of these little critters.

Good luck and God bless.

Answer 2

Here is a non-toxic all natural home remedy (vinegar is one of the ingredients)especially designed to rid lice infestations in children's hair: (from the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine) 1. Carefully brush the child's head with a mixture of 3 parts olive oil and 1 part lavender essential oil. * First apply to a small area to test for allergic sensitivity or skin reaction. * The hair should be saturated with the olive oil mixture and a shower cap put on for 5 hours. * The olive oil clogs the breathing pores of the lice and they can't hold their breath for more than 4 hours. 2. Follow this by an apple cider vinegar rinse to unglue the nits from the hair. * Nits or lice eggs are fairly small and can be pearly to grey in color. 3. Then, using a fine-tooth comb, parents should comb the child's hair meticulously to remove the lice eggs from the hair shaft. 4. And finally, wash the child's hair with a natural shampoo. Once completed, check the child's hair every other day for the next 10 days, and if needed repeat the treatment. ( You could try adding a few drops of tea tree oil in the vinegar rinse for extra strength)

Answer 3

I don't believe there is a preventive for head lice on the market, but I've heard that using hair products made with tea tree oil can help.

You can use an over the counter medicated shampoo to kill them, but there are some serious risks involved in that.

The best way to do it is to use a nit comb to remove eggs and live bugs, then slather vaseline or bacon grease all over your hair and scalp to smother the remaining live bugs. Leave it on for an hour or so, then shampoo the heck out of your hair.

Make sure you wash all of your bedding in HOT water with bleach. Vacuum your floors well. Vacuum your furniture well. Don't forget to wash your winter coat, scarves, hats, etc, as well.

After cleaning the nit comb in alcohol, comb through your hair several times a day. After a few days, repeat the process.

Good luck.

Answer 4

Use Rid and the enclosed super fine tooth combto treat a current outbreak. Wash all your Bedding in super hot water and spray anything your head touches in Rid spray.

To prevent lice from future infestation, Use a shampoo with Tea Tree oil.

Answer 5

Use RID, it is a special shampoo that stinks really bad but works. Use the fine tooth comb to make sure to get any eggs left on hair. Wash every thing, bed linens, hats, stuffed animals, if you can't wash it spray it down with RID spray.
No way to really prevent them but they don't like short hair and make sure you shampoo every day will help keep them away.

Answer 6

there's a shampoo over the counter caled RID. It comes with a special comb too to make sure you get all the eggs out or they will hatch and re-infest you again. You will need help with this from someone to comb and such because you can't see if they are all gone all over your head. You MUST wash all bedding and clothes and anything else that came in contact with your hair such as hats, stc.

Answer 7

a special shampoo but if its really bad you may need to shave your head