Lice. Yuk.

[carnation]

So I've been the nurse at Scout camp several times and this last time, the director brought 2 girls in to be checked for lice. Now I've found a few on kids here and there but this child's hair was crawling with them. Ewwww! I honestly don't know how the parent could have missed this.

We have been "blessed" a couple of times over the years but we got rid of them fairly quickly because we had one of those Robicombs. Thank the Lord for them.

Anybody got any quick cures for lice in case I get stuck at camp without a Robicomb again? I'm not taking mine to camp!

[epchick]

Shaving off the hair. Or one of those shampoos. I remember a girl in my dance group had lice one year. It was getting close to our dance recital, so her mom just decided to shave the girls head enough to get the lice off and leave some hair.

[carnation]

LOL, I'll be jobless if I shave off somebody else's kid's hair! Which shampoos are good?

[RU OX Alum]

i saw a commercial for one the other day, i think it was called "Rid-X" or something like that

[Senusret I]

Not a "cure" but I think it would help to buy a really cheap set of bedding and one of those lice sprays for the mattress. That was, if a kid gets lice at camp, they can at least have a new set of sheets to sleep in that night. Lessens the "OMG SOMETHING IS LIVING ON MY SCALP" panic.

(Note: the above advice probably works best for body lice and college students, but hey, whatever works)

[JennRN]

Spray the kid's head with raid and cover it with a shower cap. Leave it for about 20 minutes.








No, I'm just kidding!

[EtaPhiZTA]

Originally Posted by carnation

We have been "blessed" a couple of times over the years but we got rid of them fairly quickly because we had one of those Robicombs. Thank the Lord for them.

Your post caught my eye because we had a recurrent lice problem in one of the classrooms in my school this year. All of the students would check out ok with the nurse, but then the little buggers would come back. (Our best guess was that someone was not fully disinfecting the home -- it is very time consuming.) Anyway, I have never heard of a Robicomb. What is it and how does it work?

[carnation]

It's this device that looks and sounds like an electric razor and has a very mild charge in it. You comb through the hair and it's buzzing and then when it comes to a louse, it electrocutes it but a human can't feel it. You have to stop and remove the louse and it starts up again.

We got ours at Eckerd.

2 home remedies that have always worked in my family (we call head lice "ukus" in Hawaii):

Listerine -- it kills the adults. Follow it up with mayonnaise/petroleum jelly. It'll treat the nits and also kill whatever remaining adults there are. Massage it into the head, and those things come off because it's too slippery for them to hang on. It'll work better with those special combs, though.

It's less toxic and smells better than the prescription stuff.

[adpiucf]

I have an easier solution.

Call the parents and have them pick their precious little snowflake up from camp. She can return when her family doctor faxes you a clean bill of delousing.

[Benzgirl]

I read this article earlier this year. Never thought I would need the info.

http://blog.cleveland.com/health/200...in_dealer.html

For $65 an hour, he will get rid of your kid's lice - guaranteed.

Last week, Conroy opened Nitpickin in a quaint little storefront in downtown Willoughby.
He's pretty sure it's the only lice removal center in Ohio. He ought to know.

He started looking for one two years ago, when the critters took up residence on his daughter's scalp.
Conroy's search began after he tried three different over-the-counter treatments. Each time, he went through his daughter's hair with a fine-toothed comb - listening to her owwws and watching her cry until he was ready to tear his own hair out.
.................

[breathesgelatin]

I had lice when I was in kindergarten. We used Rid:

http://www.ridlice.com/index.html

I think it's the major lice/nit shampoo.

The important thing is no matter what you have to make sure you're treating/removing the nits as well the live lice.

The other important thing is to bag up stuffed animals and things like that for several months.

I say this, but I seem to remember hearing or reading somewhere that lice are becoming increasingly resistant to lice shampoos... eek!

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by adpiucf

I have an easier solution.

Call the parents and have them pick their precious little snowflake up from camp. She can return when her family doctor faxes you a clean bill of delousing.

Actually, speaking of this, I'm 90% sure the Girl Scout camp I went to for years and years and later worked at inspected every child's head for lice the day of arrival. If you had them, you were refunded and turned around.

[AlwaysSAI]

My sister and I caught it from the neighbor kid when we were pretty young; but old enough to remember it. And, reading this thread makes me feel itchy all over. Ugh, my skin is crawling.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by OTW

2 home remedies that have always worked in my family (we call head lice "ukus" in Hawaii):

I learned that word the first week I lived there and right after that, met the priest's wife, whose name was Uhulani but for months I thought it was Ukulani and I couldn't figure out why she was "Heavenly Louse".

Originally Posted by adpiucf

I have an easier solution.

Call the parents and have them pick their precious little snowflake up from camp. She can return when her family doctor faxes you a clean bill of delousing.

I hear they usually do this but these were 2 kids from the projects that they brought to keep them away from some sort of danger.