Head Lice,,,How do I get rid of it permanently?

Question

Please help me someone,,,,, my daughter keeps coming home from school with head lice!!!!!! There are 2 little girls in her class who are crawling with them and their parents are obviously doing nothing about it. I treat my daughter's scalp weekly, regardless of infestation being there or not, but they keep returning. The school cannot target individual children as this is classed as "discrimination" therefore the problem never seems to go away. I even took her to the hairdressers last week to get it cut short but, because there were some eggs, the hairdresser wouldn't cut it. HELP!!!!!!! I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES. Please no making fun of this, until you have experienced this it is no laughing matter, honestly!!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone, have just been reading some of the answers given so far and I can't believe how helpfull you have all been, especially the 2 answers about baby oil or cheap hairspray!!!!!! Keep them coming and thanks loads and loads!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Talk to the school nurse. If they don't have an exclusion policy they may be able to distribute these handouts from the cdc indiscriminately...

Unfortunately, if ALL the parents dont' take care of it your child will keep getting it...

Many of the chemicals used including lindane and malathion are lipophilic toxins and can bioaccumulate ... do NOT repeatedly treat your child without consulting a physician.

Or... if you know the worst offenders.... send it anonymously through the mail.


Rumor has it peppermint also helps prevent it... and isn't toxic... so you may want to try that as a preventative... but really seriously stop using the chemical treatments repeatedly.. you can hurt your child by doing it too much.

Answer 2

It is NO joking matter. Someone I know, her daughter is the same. The day she came home for Xmas break she had lice.they treated her it went away, and now back at school she got it again*

I thought schools were supposed to keep an eye on kids that are "scratching their heads all the time" and get it checked out by the school nurse.

If you have been treating your daughter....and washing all the things she has come into contact with in your home(pillows/sheets.)....in boiling hot water* and even putting these things into a plastic garbage bag leaving on the porch for a couple of days where it would freeze /kill those nasty lil bugs*..I would Contact the Health Dept. and let them know you've done everything, the SCHOOL isn't doing their job by inspecting the heads again and again* They have to keep up on it. It's not discriminating against anyone. If someone has it, they need to be sent home...if the parents are treating it right, the school shouldn't allow the child back in*
But if I were you........I would definately contact the health board and advise them of this situation*
ps> I'm sure your child has been told NEVER to share brushes/combs or hats with other students or to sit too close that the "bugs' can jump onto her.

Goodluck*~

Answer 3

Call the health Department in your area and report it and see if they can give you any suggestions on what needs to be done, the school nurse needs to be following up on this already with these children. It is not discrimination if she wants to help them and make sure that there home enviroment is safe and okay. It is how you go about it. First think of the children. Shampoo you kid at the beginning of the weekend, get a specific comb for lice and comb out the eggs, and then take her to the hairdreeser on Monday, if you want to get that rash that you are going to cut your own child's hair. It sounds like those little girls need some outside assistance or someone to make sure that they are okay in their home enviroment. Sometimes lice happens but you need to deal with it swiflty.

Answer 4

We had a nit nurse at our school years ago. And if a child had nits they couldn't come back to school without them being treated.

Unfortunatley you can not make them go away permantley if the two girls in the class keep spreading them to other kids

Tie your little girls hair up, lice don't like dirty hair(don't wash everyday), they can't grip on to oily hair either (maybe try a product)

Comb through conditoner with a lice comb to get rid of eggs

Change the make of lice lotion ever now and then as the lice get immune to it.

Also apperently not treating a childs hair for lice is classed as a form of neglect.

Answer 5

Well, here's a possible solution. Go to the drug store and get some Nix lice treatment. Treat their heads with it for a week and it is supposed to make it so they are immune to getting more lice.

Also, isntruct your girls to keep their heads away from the infected kids heads and not to use anyone else' combs/brushes/hats.

B-Cool

Answer 6

no its not funny atall. i understand cos ive just dealt with a bad infection. i spent hours online and ended up by using conditioner everyday. bottles and bottles of the stuff it smothers any live ones. by doing this they never get older enough to breed. really you need to get the kids in the bath as soon as they come in from school. also you must do yourself. but by far the best cure i came across was hairspray. the smelly cheap stuff is best they hate it i now smother myself and kids hair in the stuff every
morning and its really working. good luck.
p.s the only way to get rid of the dead eggs is to sit and pick them out. its hard work but just keep thinking that each one could hatch and start the whole process again. its a gd incentive.

Answer 7

First u would wanna buy the the shampoo that gets rid of the lice and wash everything in hot water that is affected and be sure you notify the school so it can be put to a stop

Answer 8

You may not believe this,but try soaking hair in Baby Oil!!!
Yes! baby oil! They lice hate baby oil and they will actually
fall out of your hair. Baby oil isn't like a food to them,but
things such as olive oil,ect are. Don't use those oils,only
baby oil. Sleep in the baby oil with a bonnet or hair net of
some type. Cover pillows, with towels.
24 hours should kill most if not all of them.
Then use that nit comb and the nits should come out
better after your hair soaks overnight with baby oil.

Answer 9

I am a social worker. The two girls in your child's class are being neglected. This is health threatening poor hygiene. PLEASE, call in a hotline to you local children's division or human services division (different for different states.) The state will get involved and stop the spread of the lice at it's source, the other family.

Answer 10

Until the kids who have it get rid of it, there is nothing you can do to get rid of them permanently. I work with an individual who lives in her own apt. Her family has them. When she goes to visit her family she has to be treated when she comes home. You're just going to have to keep tresting your daughter for them.