what is the best way to get rid of headlice i have tried everything.?

Question

my kids keep getting these dreadful things and passing them on to me ive tried so many stuff its costing me a fortune,just bid on one of those zapper combs on ebay dont know if they are any good just grasping at straws really.

Answer 1

conditioner and plastic nit comb and comb comb comb like youve never combed before. eventually ull get em all. or shave their heads like britney did

Answer 2

Ignore the whole tea tree thing... Headlice are a pain. It takes about two week. Get the strongest shampoo you can and make sure every family member's hair is saturated in this stuff. Do it at least 3 times. The weeks following use a lot of conditioner on wet hair and comb with the nit comb for hours on end... I remember coz my mum used to do this to me! And if any of your kids have long hair put it in a bun and save yourself this hassle lol

Answer 3

http://www.headlice.org/

Check out the above site, it gives loads of great information.

Nits were a big problem in my girl's school last year and the town!. I just used to put on loads and loads of conditioner and comb and comb and comb! The trouble is if some parents don't treat everyone just gets re-infected again.
Also, don't plait your childrens hair.. I was told by the 'nit nurse' that as the hair is so taut it makes it easier for them to climb up the hair.
I also saw this

Natural' Remedies - the facts:
Bug busting, wet combing, aromatherapy oils, herbal shampoos are all treatment options. However many of their claims are not supported by published evidence.

Wet Combing:
While wet combing is a successful means of detecting head lice, many experts do not advocate this method as an effective treatment. There is no conclusive evidence to prove that it successfully controls infections in the community. Wet combing as a claimed method of treatment can also be extremely time consuming, as it relies on someone applying conditioner and spending half an hour on every head in the family, every third or fourth day, for at least two weeks, in an attempt to remove the lice with a comb.

Electric Combs:
Battery-operated combs are intended for use on clean, dry hair and claim to 'stun' the lice. Again, there is no conclusive evidence to support this method.

Essential Oils:
While a very popular treatment option, according to The Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin Review, essential oils have no conclusive evidence to support their effectiveness in treating head lice1. There are also no regulatory standards for their use.

Dr Robert Aston, a communicable disease expert and co-author of the Public Health Medicine Environmental Group's National Guidance on managing head lice, comments:

"In recent years there has been an increasing public view that 'natural' treatments are safer and more effective than orthodox medicines. The insecticides in modern head louse preparations have an excellent safety record over decades and are effective when used correctly. Many so called 'natural' remedies, such as essential oils, are not only toxic, but have no reliable scientific evidence to support their claimed efficacy."

SOURCE: 1. Treating Head Louse Infections, Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin,
June 1998. 36:6 (45-6)

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Answer 4

Bet your hairs long. Get it cut short keep shampooing and coming. Best thing of all is just coming and killing daily till there gone. Both out daughters went through a period of head louse which was passed to there mum. I never got any as my hair short. The girls had the shampoo treatment several times but they are not very good the lice are almost resistant to them now. So we resorted to old fashioned way combing and killing what you see. The lice pop when you kill them no pop there not dead. Wife bone combed both the girls and i did the wife daily for a week. This got rid of them. You then need to keep monitoring and try and identify where there catching them from. Probably a close friend or other member of the family. It was in out case both the cousins had them and were not aware. Theve all been clean now for a couple of years but we still keep check every couple of weeks.

Answer 5

Tea Tree Oil. It's natural and will do no harm, unlike some of the other highly toxic preparations on the market. Get a tooth comb, apply the oil, and with patience, you can comb all the little horrors out. Ugh, they're ghastly things aren't they.

Answer 6

Try using Tea Tree Products, Paul Mitchell have great Shampoo and conditioner, a lot of salon sell it. Apparantly Lice don't like the smell etc.

Answer 7

Every time you wash the hair apply conditioner and comb through with a nit comb. Then apply a few drops of tea tree oil on the neck, at the bottom of the hairline. This works for a friend of mine. so good luck
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Answer 8

Tea tree oil and comb hair with a very fine toothed comb at least once a week.
Dont know if they still do it but I remember the whole school being treated during outbreaks when I was at primary school

Answer 9

Those Zappa combs are good, my mother is a teacher and use to come home with head lice passed on from the children!!!
The zappers do work use to sit for ages combing and hearing the thing crackle as it killed the dam little buggers!!!
good luck its an awful thing i totally sympathise with you. x
just don't do a Britney!!!!!! lol

Answer 10

i had the same problem and was told by a pharmacist in America that putting Vaseline on dry hair and putting a shower cap on their head leaving overnight and then washing it off, takes a while to come out but it smothers the lice and the eggs. It worked for us.

Answer 11

use one of them fine tooth combs every night try quellada, full marks or lyclear. if these dont work you can get carylderm with a prescription. apparently olive oil smothers the lice if you put enough on for long enough but i dont think it has any effect on the eggs(nits) try licenders as well