Anonymous wrote: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.
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.