I am a Lice Lady. AMA
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Here's more info on the Robi Comb, I think I'll stick with a metal lice comb.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1123177/ "No effectiveness trials for the electric comb are available yet, but at least one general practitioner, John Charlton, says that the few electric combs he has seen have failed miserably and are not a patch on combing (everyone) three times a day. Ms Ibarra and colleagues explain that their main drawback is that they must be used on dry hair for safety reasons and head lice move rapidly away from any disturbance in dry hair, thus evading the teeth. In addition, anything caught in the teeth, including scalp debris, will cut off the current, allowing lice in the vicinity to escape while the comb is cleaned. The simplest and most effective treatment,,, extraction of the nits with ordinary conditioner and a lice comb... |
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| I have four daughters with long thick hair and have found LiceFreee spray. It has been effective four times with them and much less time consuming than combing. Any thoughts on this product? It would take me probably 7-8 hours to properly comb them out. I can be done with this in about a half hour. The infestations have been months apart over the course of a couple years so I know that it has worked each time. |
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| Brag Alert- Our DD got lice once. I've never been so happy that we all have thinnish blonde hair. We combed diligently and it only took a minute or so each time. |
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LiceFreee Spray - people seem to like it.
The active ingredient is salt. http://www.teclabsinc.com/tips-info/product-labels/licefreee-spray!-label It can't hurt to give it a try. But it's not going to get the nits out of your hair, dead or alive. Only combing will do that. |
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| My pediatrician recommended this method instead of combing or pesticides: nuvoforheadlice.com. It worked well for us and was a lot easier than combing. Do you have an opinion on it? |
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I like Cetaphil as a product and have used it in place of conditioner when I do comb-outs. However, if you do the leave-on smother approach, that doesn't kill nits, which do not breathe. So the nits will continue to hatch and you will continue to have live bugs on you (and potentially spread them to others, including in your family) for as long as you have to carry on with this method.
I guess I don't understand the aversion to lice combing. It is fast, easy, and effective. You don't have to repeatedly dry-on Cetaphil, go through your hair with an electrifying comb, wait weeks for a cure, or live with dead nits in your hair. Why not just buy a Licemeister comb and keep it at home? If anything, you can try all these other methods, but just supplement with a good metal comb and do quick combing with conditioner in the bath or shower. If you do preventive combing in the bath/shower once a week, lice cannot get a foothold and come back. |
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| Some people say that keeping product in your hair (ie. hair spray, or gel) acts as a repellant for lice. Do you think this is true? |
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| My trusted pediatrician advised us to keep the OTC medicated treatment on 4-5 times as long as the packaging recommended. We did this and also a meticulous comb-out. It did the trick and we haven't had an infestation since. Your thoughts? |
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No, I do not. Anything that is not toxic to humans is not going to be toxic to lice. I don't believe for a second that they are repelled by rosemary, for example. You have to remember that lice evolved right along with humans. http://www.livescience.com/41028-lice-reveal-clues-to-human-evolution.html Lice are very, very good at what they do. And they are so prolific that even if something you do kills 99% of them, that 1% is perfectly capable of starting the whole cycle all over again. I can see that some products could make it harder for a louse to hold onto hair. But "harder" does not equal impossible. And we've been using mousse, gel, hair spray, hair dye, etc. etc. for a while now, and yet, we still have lice. |
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As in RID or some such product? Why would you want to keep a pesticide on your child's head for even the recommended amount of time? When pesticides are completely unnecessary? And they often don't kill nits. The meticulous comb out by itself is all you need to do. I'm not usually an all-organic, crunchy mom. If I felt pesticides were needed to kill lice I would use them, and in fact have used them in my early days. But now I have learned they are completely unnecessary. So why expose my kids to that if I don't have to? I realize it's not going to kill my kids but, why add one more unhealthy thing to their lives? Those are my thoughts. |
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Does blow drying at all help to kill them ? Does it do anything for the nits?
I had lice as an adult 2 years ago that I got while working with kids. It was a mess. I did the shampoo and friends combed me out. I still had it and got a Lice Lady to treat it. I was so paranoid. I did the olive oil thing (does that work?) even after the treatment. I combed daily for over a month. It was horrible |
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| THis is the BEST AMA thread, BTW. |
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LOL. Blow drying likely kills some of the lice. Just as a blow dryer's air, if directed at your skin for too long, would burn you, it would burn a louse. The problem would be that no amount of blow drying is going to get EVERY louse and EVERY nit and you have to eliminate all the bugs to be cured. |
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Re The Olive Oil thing - again, it may suffocate some of the live bugs. It probably won't suffocate them all. It won't kill nits. The best use I can imagine for olive oil is to lubricate the hair so you can comb out the bugs and nits. |