I am a Lice Lady. AMA

[Anonymous]

Glad it helped!

[Anonymous]

Do monkeys actually eat lice when they are grooming each other?

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

bump

[Anonymous]

If one is Vegan, how do you handle the lice without harming them or their unborn offspring? (Eggs).

[Anonymous]

No question. Just a Thank You!

to you and all the Lice Ladies out there who help families in time of a very acute need!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is making me itchy.

+1!

[Anonymous]

Along the lines of other gross jobs I'd actually like to do... I'd love to pick pimples professionally... when I see a big whitehead on someone the invisible soul energy of my hands stretches out toward it to pop it... that would be fun and rewarding, like this lice removal probably is for you.

Side note: I only got lice once- as a 20 yr old in university. My hair is way too thick to comb; I don't even brush it. So I used the shampoo 2-3 times over 10 days and it never came back. I was picking nit shells out of my hair for months though... I had to slide them one at a time all the way down the shaft, one by one. Thank god I'm blonde or I'd have been pretty creepy looking- they shone silver white so you couldn't see them, but only feel them. So it's funny you say the trick is the comb- I took one look at it and knew I wouldn't be able to use it.

[Anonymous]

Thanks OP! We just got a notice from our school that there was a confirmed case in my kids' class. Just checked her & sure enough found two nymphs on her scalp. Time to get out the combs!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those who are purchasing lice combs, I recommend buying two. That's what we did so DH could comb one kid's hair and I could do another. With our DD (who had the worst infestation), We both worked on her hair. It made it go much faster.

If you discover your child has lice, please notify the camp/school/daycare they attend. I'm sure my DD picked her infestation up at a camp. We believe she had it a good month before we noticed it. We immediately notified her camp and they were so very appreciative. Two other campers had it as did one staff member. I don't believe my DD was the source of their infestation because it was only the second day of camp but it's nice to be alerted that it's going around.

OP again, my advice to parents who care is start advocating for a school wide, classroom wide, camp wide "lice check". An experienced mom in your group can do it if you don't want to pay! But I really believe that screening and treating the whole group at one time is a HUGE help in combating the spread of lice. People are just too mortified to do this, which is silly. Would you be mortified if you caught a cold?

Let's examine the illogic of the above proposed "lice check"

Why stop at screening at the camp or day care or school. My goodness, the source could be "that neighbor kid" or DH's nephews who spend Saturdays with after Hebrew school or baseball practice.

So, actually, what we need is for every mother in Washington to screen their child's head RIGHT NOW, go for it ... remember: don't miss a strand of hair

wait...what about your friend who is just now entering the beltway with her kids , ooops they could be bring " it " with them

Let's have Amtrak workers and cops on highways pulling cars over to " check for lice so no one " with it" enters the beltway

Oh, SH=T, wait what about the kids getting off airplanes who picked it up in Cali, coming for Thanksgiving. Can we get Homeland security screening for it !

Now, remember, ALL OF THAT screening is only good for about one day because: in just one day two undetected nits can hatch and start to grown and then in 8 days you have a nymph close to breeding age and sh+ T , got to go right back and mass screen everyone entering the beltway again .

Hint: that HIV test is good for only up tot he next time you have unprotected sex. There is NO SUCH thing as " I know I don't have it " Unless of course, you don;t have unprotected sex ever and, with lice, unless your child never comes within 3 feet of another kid in their entire life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh OP - I hope you are still around. I have a quesiton regarding the need for using a conditioner to do the comb out --

If I wash and conditon my hair in the shower, and rinse it, do I need to add extra conditioner for the comb-out?

Also, does it matter what kind of conditioner?


Thanks.

not OP - But I'm thinking she'll agree with me.

You need your hair saturated with conditioner. So instead of showering first, coat your hair in conditioner and do the comb out. Then, shampoo it out. You'll need a rat tail comb, too, to comb the conditioner through - and a spray bottle to add some moisture when necessary.

Pantene was the recommended brand. It's thick, which means it can coat the hair well, and it's so white that any little speck shows up, which is what you want.

During maintenance on my kids and myself, I've found mosquitoes, specks of dirt, pieces of grass, you name it. It's amazing what gets caught in our hair!

You people using conditioner are why we have lice resistant to lice pesticides. YOU ARE COATING THE HAIR SHAFT AND PROTECTING THE LICE FROM THE POISON and THAT IS HOW THEY MANAGE TO SURVIVE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh OP - I hope you are still around. I have a quesiton regarding the need for using a conditioner to do the comb out --

If I wash and conditon my hair in the shower, and rinse it, do I need to add extra conditioner for the comb-out?

Also, does it matter what kind of conditioner?


Thanks.

not OP - But I'm thinking she'll agree with me.

You need your hair saturated with conditioner. So instead of showering first, coat your hair in conditioner and do the comb out. Then, shampoo it out. You'll need a rat tail comb, too, to comb the conditioner through - and a spray bottle to add some moisture when necessary.

Pantene was the recommended brand. It's thick, which means it can coat the hair well, and it's so white that any little speck shows up, which is what you want.

During maintenance on my kids and myself, I've found mosquitoes, specks of dirt, pieces of grass, you name it. It's amazing what gets caught in our hair!

You people using conditioner are why we have lice resistant to lice pesticides. YOU ARE COATING THE HAIR SHAFT AND PROTECTING THE LICE FROM THE POISON and THAT IS HOW THEY MANAGE TO SURVIVE

WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN??

[Anonymous]

Get on top of this shit people!!!

My kids at a N Arl have gotten 4 different letters in a month that somebody has frickin lice!! They should ban them like the old days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh OP - I hope you are still around. I have a quesiton regarding the need for using a conditioner to do the comb out --

If I wash and conditon my hair in the shower, and rinse it, do I need to add extra conditioner for the comb-out?

Also, does it matter what kind of conditioner?


Thanks.

not OP - But I'm thinking she'll agree with me.

You need your hair saturated with conditioner. So instead of showering first, coat your hair in conditioner and do the comb out. Then, shampoo it out. You'll need a rat tail comb, too, to comb the conditioner through - and a spray bottle to add some moisture when necessary.

Pantene was the recommended brand. It's thick, which means it can coat the hair well, and it's so white that any little speck shows up, which is what you want.

During maintenance on my kids and myself, I've found mosquitoes, specks of dirt, pieces of grass, you name it. It's amazing what gets caught in our hair!

You people using conditioner are why we have lice resistant to lice pesticides. YOU ARE COATING THE HAIR SHAFT AND PROTECTING THE LICE FROM THE POISON and THAT IS HOW THEY MANAGE TO SURVIVE

ok THIS person? Is insane. Not to mention, she doesn't know what she is talking about.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2568416/The-best-cure-head-lice-Ordinary-conditioner-removes-head-lice-eggs-effectively-special-products.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those who are purchasing lice combs, I recommend buying two. That's what we did so DH could comb one kid's hair and I could do another. With our DD (who had the worst infestation), We both worked on her hair. It made it go much faster.

If you discover your child has lice, please notify the camp/school/daycare they attend. I'm sure my DD picked her infestation up at a camp. We believe she had it a good month before we noticed it. We immediately notified her camp and they were so very appreciative. Two other campers had it as did one staff member. I don't believe my DD was the source of their infestation because it was only the second day of camp but it's nice to be alerted that it's going around.

OP again, my advice to parents who care is start advocating for a school wide, classroom wide, camp wide "lice check". An experienced mom in your group can do it if you don't want to pay! But I really believe that screening and treating the whole group at one time is a HUGE help in combating the spread of lice. People are just too mortified to do this, which is silly. Would you be mortified if you caught a cold?

Let's examine the illogic of the above proposed "lice check"

Why stop at screening at the camp or day care or school. My goodness, the source could be "that neighbor kid" or DH's nephews who spend Saturdays with after Hebrew school or baseball practice.

So, actually, what we need is for every mother in Washington to screen their child's head RIGHT NOW, go for it ... remember: don't miss a strand of hair

wait...what about your friend who is just now entering the beltway with her kids , ooops they could be bring " it " with them

Let's have Amtrak workers and cops on highways pulling cars over to " check for lice so no one " with it" enters the beltway

Oh, SH=T, wait what about the kids getting off airplanes who picked it up in Cali, coming for Thanksgiving. Can we get Homeland security screening for it !

Now, remember, ALL OF THAT screening is only good for about one day because: in just one day two undetected nits can hatch and start to grown and then in 8 days you have a nymph close to breeding age and sh+ T , got to go right back and mass screen everyone entering the beltway again .

Hint: that HIV test is good for only up tot he next time you have unprotected sex. There is NO SUCH thing as " I know I don't have it " Unless of course, you don;t have unprotected sex ever and, with lice, unless your child never comes within 3 feet of another kid in their entire life.

Indeed. Why bother to lice comb at all when you can just catch lice again? Why bother to take a bath or even clean the house?

If everyone lice combed their child at home once a week, it would go a long way to ending the severe lice problems we seem to have now. I don't think humanity will every eradicate lice, but some of us may wish to reduce its prevalence.

- OP