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[quote=Anonymous]Notify the school each time you find lice. Even though the policy says they don't exclude anymore for lice, at our public school they do not allow children to return until they have proven they had been treated because the outbreaks have been so bad.

Use NIX Ultra, our pediatrician says it is the only one that works because it smothers adults/eggs. Pesticides don't work because the lice are immune now. You have to do the follow up second treatment. Treat the entire family, but if your husband is bald they can skip (they don't live in beards). You probably have them too.

Next up, comb twice a day. Spray bottle, lice comb, container of water. Spray hair so it is damp, comb and wipe the comb on a napkin, and repeat until you can do 100 passes and not see anything. Anything brown on the napkin is nits, and of course you know what adults or nymphs look like. Make sure to comb the entire head in sections. You have to do that in the morning before school and after school. There is a special lice comb called the LiceMeister, it gets more out than the combs that comes in the box, but it can pull hair so you have to make sure the hair is damp or wet so it doesn't hurt.

Don't bother cleaning stuff. Lice can't live long outside of a host (my kid put an adult in a jar and it died pretty quickly).

Dimethicone smothers them so you can get a leave in conditioner that is a high % of dimethicone and spray the hell out of them before they go to school, then braid and put their hair in a bun. As soon as they come home comb them out. If they were clean in the morning, but have adult lice in the afternoon you know it is coming from school.

That should be enough, but for extra thick hair you can also blow dry on the cool or warm setting: "Rapid exposure to large amounts of dry, heated air causes them to dry out and die."[/quote]

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