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[quote=Anonymous]I somehow never had lice as a kid but have had it two times as an adult -- the first in my 20s when rolling around with little cousins and the second time when my kid caught it at day care (shared brush on school picture day!).  My kid got it again in elementary school but didn't spread it.

I am the wacky person who thinks lice is super easy to get rid of (way easier than dog parasites and bed bugs, which I've also dealt with).  We don't use the lice shampoo (bad chemicals and not so effective).  Instead we buy a relatively natural product (Lice Freee) that Whole Foods sells and works super effectively.  We also use hair dryers several times a day, shake the head into the sink, and (kinda gross) the dead bugs fall out.  The heat from the hair dryer will also kill most of the nits.  We keep the hair dryer going each day over the duration of the life cycle of the lice.  If some nit does hatch, it will be killed as a bug before it reaches the reproduction stage.  We do over time get the nits out for cosmetic reasons, but they are already dead.  We wash pillow cases carefully for a couple of days but don't do more involved laundry; the bugs don't survive off of a human head for long at all.

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