Not that difficult to get rid of, you just have to very systematically comb the sh*t out of the hair (as other have said). I probably spent 4 hours combing DD's long, thick hair the day we discovered the bugs. Not a fun evening, and I continued to comb for two weeks, but no more bugs after that.

^^^and this laissez faire, half-assed attitude toward lice is why they are now resistant to OTC treatment and way more difficult to get rid of.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bite the bullet and hire lice lady......

After watching her comb out, you will know how and know it's gone


She did me and my DC

Some of best medical dollars I have ever spent

And got the dollars back from my flexible spending plan

Do it....your efforts haven't work....pros can solve it

PP here who also recommended lice lady (we used lice happens btw) and mentioned fsa spending. My claim actually just got rejected overnight. PP, did you have any issues with yours? Can you share who your program was or how you submitted? Would like to appeal my rejection.

I'm not surprised to hear the claim was rejected. The vast majority of people simple do the work themselves without paying hundreds for someone else to do it. Since children are no longer required to stay home from school, it's really not considered a medical problem, but an annoyance.

In addition to the lice lady, wash everything, I mean everything in hot water! Your kids stuffed toys, wash them or put them in large plastic bags tied up for a couple of weeks. Change the pillow every night as you may not see the nits, but they will fall on the pillow, or sheets. My boy's class has a lice problem everyone got it multiple times, including the boys, we only had it one, I was a nazi about it.

Anonymous wrote:Bite the bullet and hire lice lady......

After watching her comb out, you will know how and know it's gone


She did me and my DC

Some of best medical dollars I have ever spent

And got the dollars back from my flexible spending plan

Do it....your efforts haven't work....pros can solve it

PP here who also recommended lice lady (we used lice happens btw) and mentioned fsa spending. My claim actually just got rejected overnight. PP, did you have any issues with yours? Can you share who your program was or how you submitted? Would like to appeal my rejection.

Bite the bullet and hire lice lady......

After watching her comb out, you will know how and know it's gone


She did me and my DC

Some of best medical dollars I have ever spent

And got the dollars back from my flexible spending plan

Do it....your efforts haven't work....pros can solve it

I think 99% is that you're either not using a good enough live comb (eg the Terminator) or not combing correctly. No more than 1 in sections at a time and clip off what you've already done with butterfly clips. Start at the top so if they brush down you'll get them in the next section. Pigtails and crewcuts in Rockville had the terminator comb in stock this weekend.
Good luck. Remember also that the bugs have something like a 1 week life cycle--eggs take a few days to hatch, and then the newbies can't lay eggs until they are a couple days old. So if your previous combing got the old lice but not the eggs, you are probably seeing newborns now. The trick is to comb every day or two for about 8-10 days, so you get any new bugs as they are born and before they are fertile.

Anonymous wrote:What helped with your kid's lice problem? Found live bugs on 7/9. Did pyrethrin shampoo that day and combed out. Picked nits, lots of them, the following three days, saw no bugs. Fewer nits each day. To be safe we did a cetaphil nuvo treatment on wed night, 7/13. Combed it out and found no live bugs. Thursday morning saw a live bug and did another shampoo treatment early. More nitpicking over the weekend, saw live bugs Sat, Sun, Mon, more each day. Did wet combing the last two days. There aren't many nits but seem to be more bugs. What to do? All the bedding has been washed repeatedly.

OP what kind of comb are you using? You really need to use a GOOD professional comb, i.e. the Terminator.

A good comb out can take an hour to an hour and a half. You need to go very slowly.

You might not be seeing all the nits is my guess. You are missing them, and they are hatching into live bugs. The pesticide shampoo is often ineffective, so doing it twice doesn't really mean anything.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/09/super-lice-resistant-to-chemical/6239413

"Clark and a team of researchers examined the genes of lice from 32 sites in the U.S. and Canada and found that 99.6% of those tested in 2007-09 were genetically resistant to the pyrethrin- and permethrin-based chemicals most frequently used to treat them; those are the chemicals in such over-the-counter lice products as RID and Nix."

What kind of comb are you using? You should get a professional comb ASAP. Those plastic ones you get with the lice shampoo are worthless. Also, are you using a hot hair dryer everyday? Be sure to dry hair thoroughly with a hair dryer, especially at the base of the neck after daily shampoo and conditioner.

The only thing that worked was shaving my kid's head. Probably not an option for a girl though

Live Happens is another co. Who will come to your house to comb your hair. We paid them the first time. Second time we ordered their spray and use tut lice comb.

Lice freee spray from Amazon. It's basically salt water. I was skeptical, but it worked really well for me. The first time I combed. The second time I didn't and only used the spray. Four long haired girls and it was gone.

Anonymous wrote:How much did lice lady cost?

$125 to come out plus $100/hour. She checked 3 adults and two children in our household, and thoroughly combed my daughter. I think it took an hour to an hour and a half. This was in VA. Not sure if pricing varies.

Licefree spray. Supposedly nontoxic. I only used it on my son, and 2 weeks later is lice free. I got it at Walmart.