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.
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.
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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.
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.
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".
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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.
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.
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