I can tell you what DOESN'T work - coating the hair with vaseline overnight. Thought I would NEVER get it out of Gypsyboot's long, thick hair when she brought them home from camp when she was 10.

It could be worse. My boy brought home 25 ticks in his hair from a camping trip two months ago. So much for letting his hair grow out to a corporate length. He was back to his military cut within an hour.

Gets home from the trip, hops in the shower, sits on my bed and says " hmmm, I think I have a tick because I feel something moving. Do you see any?!?" After demanding that he get off my bed immediately, we found more and more. Life Scouts are really proficient at that point in their BSA career to find little parasites on their body, but his hair was a great hiding place. This would be a weekend that GEN Alum was TDY so I am having to remind my 14 y.o. boy to check every nook and cranny and to shift things around to make sure no creatures were hiding. Very embarrassing for both of us.

Ugh! Parasites!

And speaking of Boy Scouts, I just remembered that at that Arrow of Light ceremony that we were discussing on the Eagle thread, one of the moms who's a juvenile court lawyer said that recently she went to the hair salon and the beautician started to comb her hair, then told her she couldn't do her hair. She bent over and whispered to her that she had lice.

If I ever have them, I don't want to hear it from a third party!

When I worked at a salon, we had that same situation. Everything had to be bleached down.

Oh no C! It's a shame you couldn't just buzz off their hair, because it would probably be a huge help with treatment. Are there laundry facilities where someone can wash everything they brought with them in hot water?

I would have paid good money for one of those Robicombs a few years back. The two older boys were both sick and then the youngest came downstairs around 11:30pm and said he couldn't sleep because his head itched too much. Yep, and he cried through the head shaving and start of the cleaning process. That got most of them, but of course I was up all night throwing away or bagging up EVERYTHING that we couldn't wash and doing laundry to the point of tears. The next morning we got the Rid stuff and did that.

Same son gets home from Boy Scout Camp this afternoon, and as he's older his hair has darkened quite a bit and it's a lot longer. I tried to get him to cut it before leaving but he refused. Wish me luck that there are no uninvited critters on that child, or he'll have a date with my clippers immediately!

Call your doctor and ask for the prescriptive strength lice shampoo. It is the only thing that would work when my daughter brought those nasty little bugs home from school. Yuck.

I have no experience with this, but saw it in my boy's salon - www.fairytaleshaircare.com

You all are dirty and need to take showers. Grossing me out ovah here.

^^^ Rudey!!! How are you doing??? :)




Does that listerine/mayo thing really work? Just wanna know?

And I love the sending the kid home comment, had me http://www.pledgepark.com/images/smilies/rotf.gif

Just so you know - lice actually prefer CLEAN hair - easier for them to lay their eggs on, apparently.

Mayo doesn't work. Never tried Listerine. The mayo does make the hair gorgeously shiny, however.

Hey baby, how YOU doing?

And swtxbelle, I never had lice nor have I known anyone with lice...fleas...or other infestations. That is straight up disgusting. I still recommend showering.

I recommend showering, too. Just understand it will do no good in preventing or displacing lice.

How true is this, really? 'Cause, back in my day, it was always the dirty-ass kids who smelled like pee and dirty underwear who got lice. To be fair, there were other non-dirty kids who got it, but they were the exception, not the norm. They probably got it from sharing combs with the dirty kids.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/infecti...mmon/lice.html
(Look at the prevention section)


It may be that in your experience the "dirty-ass kids" got them the most - but what happened is probably the "non-dirty kids" parents (being more responsible) actually did the proper treatment and follow-up, while the parents of the "d-a" kids did not, and so they had them longer, or were re-infested.

Lice are spread through direct contact or through sharing things like bruses. Dirt isn't an issue in infection.