i cant, get rid of my kids nits they keep coming back?

Question

what do i do

Answer 1

Wet combing is the best way of getting rid of the lice, but, it *has* to be done regularly over a two - three week period to ensure that you get rid of all the newly hatched lice.

The nits are the eggs that are cemented to the hair shaft around 1/2 centimetres from the scalp. The adult louse lays them in the hottest part of the head which is generally behind the ears and the nape of the neck.

Wash the hair, gently towel dry and comb a little hair conditioner through the hair. This slows the lice down a bit, because they do try and run away! Comb through with a wide-toothed comb first to detangle.

Divide the hair into four or more sections, take a nit comb (and a metal toothed one is best because the teeth are closer together) and work the nit comb systematically through each section putting the comb against the scalp and moving it down the hair.

Have toilet tissue or kitchen roll handy to wipe the comb clean after each combing.

Wash the conditioner out.

Repeat this every other night for the next two - three weeks to ensure the hatched nits are caught too.

I have used a natural remedy called 'Not Nice To Lice' which has an enzyme in it that does break down the cement that holds the nits to the hair shaft. It is expensive at around £17.99 a bottle but it *does* work. The only downside is that you have to massage it into the hair for 15 minute at a time and boy that is arduous! But it's worth it to see the little suckers wash away nicely (lice and nits). Below is a link to a site that sells it, but if you Google the name, lots come up.

http://www.naturallydoesit.co.uk/shop/

Good luck!

Answer 2

First of all stop using the smelly stuff that the doctors or chemist give you, the nits seem to get immune to the stuff in the end.
My best advice to you would be to buy Tea Tree Oil Shampoo and Conditioner. Comb your childs her first before you shampoo it if your childs hair is long. Wash the hair and then apply loads of conditioner. The eggs will slide out with the conditioner but you have to keep checking every other day. Repeat the process until you think the eggs have gone. Alot of people make the mistake of just getting the crawleys out, forgetting about the white eggs attached to the hair shafts. Just keep checking on a regular basis. I take it that your child/children are still at primary school. Its the parents who don't really check their childs hair regularly that makes the problem for the mothers that do check. I had it when my two girls where in primary shcool. Now they are both in high school, problem ceased. Good Luck. Trust me it will work.

Answer 3

Everyone above had good advice but you could also try: keep your kids heads covered (bandannas or hats) and if the school complains or has a no hat policy, tell them to stick it until the lice problem is under control. Short hair cuts are easier to deal with. Blow dry your kids hair everyday. The hot air seems to dry out the nits so that they do not hatch. Remove each and every egg, this can take hours. Make sure you launder all bedding, soft toys, etc. and spray upholstered furniture with a bug spray. God knows I have been through this a few times Good Luck!

Answer 4

Try a Robi Comb... Its a fine tooth steel comb that has 2 AA batteries and sends a small electric current through the teeth that zaps the nits you have to use them every night on the kids and they really work, best thing that ive found and your not using chemicals all the time.
You can get them at any Chemist/Pharmacy for around £12 or $20.....
Hope that helps? i know how it can send you up the wall when the kids keep coming home from school with them.......

Answer 5

instead of buying all the expensive solutions buy a couple of cheap bottles of hair conditioner plaster the hair in it and comb through with a fine nit comb repeat this every other day it gets rid of the nits and ur childs hair will look great with all the conditioner being put in make sure u wash the condtioner out properly though

Answer 6

My son kept catching nits at nursery and i was advised to make a solution of tea tree oil and water and spray his hair every day. I also bought a battery operated nit comb which electrocutes any lice it comes across, this has done the trick. Also keep making teachers aware when your children have lice.

Answer 7

EVERY NIGHT WHEN THEY COME HOME FROM SCHOOL COMB THREW THEIR HAIR WITH THE NIT COMB THIS WILL TAKE OUT THE EGGS BEFORE THEY HATCH, TRY NOT TO USE THE NIT LOTION TO MUCH AS THE NITS GET IMMUNE TO IT AND STOPS HAVING AN EFFECT, ON WEEKENDS TRY DRENCHING A NATURAL FORMAL FOR NITS IN TO YOUR KIDS HAIRS LIKE VINEGAR. ALSO IF YOU CAN USE LEAVE IN CONDITIONER OR USE MOUSE AND HAIR SPRAY EACH MORNING OR GEL FOR A BOY, IT MAKES THE HAIR HARD SO NITS CANT CLING ON. GOOD LUCK

Answer 8

OMG! DO NOT SHAVE YOUR KIDS HEAD!!! Those things can attach to the tiniest piece of har, so even shaving doesn't 100% get rid of them. All 3 of my children had it earlier in the year. We got a prescription from the pediatrician-they were that bad! With that and picking through their head, we got rid of them in about a week. I spent hours every night picking them out of my daughters head. We also used olive oil to help smother. The treatments like RID and such are pesticides, so it isn't good to continuously use them. Now, the children only wash their hair once per week...apparently clean hair is attractive to the bugs. Oh, and my daughter wears a ponytail everyday.

As far as the house, wash, wash, wash. If it can't be washed, put it in the dryer for 20 minutes on high heat (like sofa pillows and stuffed animals). You can also seal things in a garbage bag for 14 days, the eggs will hatch and die in that period of time.

Answer 9

for a start get used to it, simple as, they will keep coming back they are nasty blighters, and when you think you got rid of them, some kid comes in a spoils your handy work.

just keep shampooing with tea tree stuff which seems to help and the most effective nit combing as usual everytime they bathe. rigorously go through their hair to get as many eggs and nits as possible, check your sweater to make sure none escaped on there and get back towards your kids hair after

good luck!!

Answer 10

My friend had tried all the nit soloutions out there, but nothing worked for longer than 7 days, so she looked in a herbal book, and found that if she mixed geranium oil, and tee-tree oil and put in their kids hair everyday, it worked!!! Never had nits since!