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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter has a ridiculous amount thick, wavy/curly hair, and usually wears it somewhere between chin- and shoulder-length. Had lice outbreaks in classrooms plenty of times over the years, of course, but she's never gotten them. She has so much hair that even just checking it takes forever, so I'm really glad I've never had to do a full round of treatments!

We've always used some kind of product in her hair—leave-in conditioner, detangler, anti-frizz cream, whatever we're using to try to tame the mop this month—which I think may be the main reason she's never had them. Apparently lice strongly prefer clean hair, and hers has always had something coating it, if only so we could get a comb through it.

We've also had trouble finding ponytail holders that can contain her hair for long, so wearing it up probably wasn't much of a factor in not getting them. She almost always came home with her hair down, no matter what we did to it in the morning.

Not to say you shouldn't bother with putting hair up, but just to say it probably wasn't the reason my daughter has never had lice. I'm fairly convinced it was because her hair always had some sort of product in it. (We never used anything lice-specific, just whatever I threw on there in a vain attempt at controlling the chaos and getting the knots out.)[/quote]

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