Persistent lice -- 9 days later
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Anonymous
| What helped with your kid's lice problem? Found live bugs on 7/9. Did pyrethrin shampoo that day and combed out. Picked nits, lots of them, the following three days, saw no bugs. Fewer nits each day. To be safe we did a cetaphil nuvo treatment on wed night, 7/13. Combed it out and found no live bugs. Thursday morning saw a live bug and did another shampoo treatment early. More nitpicking over the weekend, saw live bugs Sat, Sun, Mon, more each day. Did wet combing the last two days. There aren't many nits but seem to be more bugs. What to do? All the bedding has been washed repeatedly. |
Anonymous
| Have your kid sleep somewhere else (a different room) with fresh sheets. Lice can't live for more than 3 days without eating, so any that are in your kid's bedroom will die. A quick google search will tell you about the eggs, but I think the eggs are all on the hair shaft, so they would not be in your kid's room. |
Anonymous
| I would call your ped and ask them to call in a prescription treatment. The OTC shampoos are worthless. Use the prescription shampoo on the whole family and then comb everyone out. |
Anonymous
| How old are your kids and could they be getting reinfested somewhere (camp, daycare) or have you kept them home? |
Anonymous
| Lice lady. |
Anonymous
Age 6. She went to camp the week she got it but she's not at camp this week. |
Anonymous
| We had outstanding results with full day mayo after chemicals failed. My ped suggested it. |
Anonymous
| OP, who has been combing you and your DH out? |
Anonymous
I have checked DH and he doesn't have signs. I thought I had nits and maybe one live bug in Tuesday (day 3) but comb outs have been clean since. DH says he doesn't see nits but I'm not sure he would. I have long brown hair. |
Anonymous
OP again. I did shampoo on day 3 and cetaphil on day 4. |
Anonymous
| Shampoo and then thorough combing with terminator comb everyday for two weeks. You need to divide comb in sections and clean out nits after each stroke. The shampoo kills live lice, but lice will persist unless you remove nits. |
Anonymous
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Trader Joe's tea tree shampoo, followed by Trader Joes spa treatment conditioner. Leave in, use lice comb and comb every inch (I go around 2x to make sure). Use TJ tea tree for a week Repeat conditioner/comb in 7 days. Give kids a "treat" like unlimited phone/computer time while you are combing.
wash kid blankets, sheets, pillows. I have no idea why Trader Joe's works, but it does. Yes, our elementary school has a lice issue, thanks to which I'm a pro.. |
Anonymous
| Call The Lice Lady and have her treat you and your child. Just do it. |
Anonymous
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We just had the lice lady come last week. We caught the problem early and it wasn't so bad for us, but I learned a lot about combing. The first night, I combed my DD's head for 30-40 minutes. It was exhausting! And I didn't get everything. The lice lady was a lot more systematic and gave a couple of pointers. As 20:06 said, you have to section out the hair no wider than the width of the comb and go through systematically and slowly and repeatedly. Also, make sure you comb up at the base of the neck towards the top of the head. Apparently the bugs like the base of the neck.
Then make sure you've cleaned or thrown away or bagged ANYTHING that could carry them. Hair ties and headbands, stuffed animals, decorative pillows, carseat/booster, towels, etc. As I learned, you don't have to go crazy with treating these things, just put them in the dryer on high for 30 min or put them in the freezer overnight or bag them for ~72 hours. For the carseat, apparently just running a lint roller over it will work. At this point, if I were you, I'd just call the lice lady. They said I could even use my FSA money for it, so it wasn't quite so pricey. They will comb the shit out of your DD's hair and then check the whole fam. It was expensive but the peace of mind was quite nice. Still doing follow up but I think we got it knocked (knock wood!). |
Anonymous
| How much did lice lady cost? |