OTC Lice treatment
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Anonymous
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When leaving early this morning, my daughter said she found something in her hair!
3 years ago on vacation we used Licefree spray. It worked on all of us. Anything new? I’m checking Walmart/Target and many of them are out of stock! TIA |
Anonymous
| Just comb everything out |
Anonymous
| Don’t use any treatment other than combing combing combing. I’ve been through this probably five times and I’m quite good at it now. Absolutely douse DD’s hair with conditioner. Get a really good lice comb—the kind you find on Amazon—and comb the whole head, scalp to tips, in every direction. Do it again tomorrow. If you aren’t getting bugs tomorrow, give it three days and do it again. Then again in a week. Wash sweatshirts and pillowcases. |
Anonymous
| The comb is the only thing worth doing. Then start doing salt mixed with shampoo weekly and let it sit on the hair for 5 mins once a week to break the life cycle. Get the expensive comb from one of the lice salons. |
Anonymous
| Smother with Crisco. |
Anonymous
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Thankfully I do have the licemeister comb!
Just curious if any of the OTC treatments work? |
Anonymous
| There was a study a few years ago that said ordinary hair conditioner works as well as OTC remedies, and better than nothing (when combing). |
Anonymous
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Agree with the combing. We used a flea comb from
PetSmart worked just as well as the expensive drug store one. |
Anonymous
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Nitfree live comb.
Follow the method explained by the Nice Lice Lady online. She recommends not wasting any time or effort on extra cleaning or laundry. Just a lengthy, specific combing process every 2-3 nights. Has worked for me twice. For the price of one comb on amazon. Fairy Tales Terminator Lice and Nit Comb (Color may vary) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002STJFP2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_KUxtDbECTCRRQ |
Anonymous
No they do not work at all. Which is why lice keeps going around, because people still think they can get out of the combing somehow. They can’t. |
Anonymous
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Here is how to comb:
http://thenicelicelady.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-remove-head-lice-from-someone.html?m=1 And here is the post on not wasting energy cleaning: http://thenicelicelady.blogspot.com/2016/04/no-cleaning-no-cry.html?m=1 |
Anonymous
| Also just cause your daughter found something, it’s not necessarily lice. My kids do that and it turns out it’s just pollen, or a gnat that flew into their hair. Look at it with magnification on your phone—if it has little legs and no wings, it’s probably a louse. Pollen has no legs of course and lice have no wings. There are so many gnats this time of year. |
Anonymous
I also thought, maybe it's something else. If your kid has had lice previously, anything in the hair creates that "It's lice" fear in both of you, understandably! But now you have to check with great care, OP, and that means you have to expend the time to check her ENTIRE head using the lice comb to lift the hair. Remember that lice particularly like the areas near the ears and at the nape of the neck. Do not look only for live lice; look for the eggs as well, attached to the hair shafts. They can be hard to see. Even though I knew what they should look like, I still looked up images online and had them at hand when checking. We did have good results using a product called Vamousse. It's basically salt in a foam form, so it's not a harsh chemical treatment. You still must comb and check and pull out eggs and nits -- Vamousse is good, its salt and foam help smother the lice, and it makes the combing go more easily, but you still have to comb. I felt like it was easier to comb and check using the Vamousse than it was with conditioner (or mayo or Crisco or lard, all of which people recommend, but which all have a gooey white color that I think makes it harder to see the whitish eggs on the hair shafts, and harder to grasp the eggs with tweezers or the comb). We got Vamousse at CVS stores but found that sometimes we had to hit more than one store to find it; I think each CVS only stocks a couple of containers of it. Call first. |
Anonymous
| licemeister comb with conditioner. Don't put pesticides on your kid. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/401192.page |
Anonymous
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I like LiceMD. But you’ll need to order it. Right now just load her up with conditioner and start combing if you have a good comb. We are going away on vacation too and I always take comb and bottle of lice md with me just in case.
https://smile.amazon.com/LiceMD-Head-Lice-Treatment-Kit/dp/B000ALBKTY/ref=sr_1_4?crid=15SMLE4DVIXAF&keywords=lice+md+lice+%26+egg+removal+treatment+liquid+gel+kit&qid=1565436774&s=gateway&sprefix=Lice+md%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-4 |