Lice. Yuk.

[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.

[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.

[SWTXBelle]

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.