head lice

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My twins have been plagued by headlice (outbreak in their nursery) recently.

I'm not keen on pesticides either, mostly because I've found that they

don't work!

However, in England they recommend wet combing with hair ordinary conditoner

(to make the hair hard to grip and to slide comb through). So when the boys

have an outbreak, I dry comb the hair, get some out, then wet comb with

conditioner rinse and do it again in the bath. This is with the special lice

comb you can buy at chemists (pharmacies). We get most of the little

blighters that way, you have to do it again regularly for at least two weeks

until all the nits have hatched, and you've got any stray ones. We're

usually lice-free after two days, but I check for two weeks just in case

because that is their life-cycle.

I then check their hair on a regular basis every week, when I wash it and

wet comb it. It seems to keep them at bay after a tough month of delousing.

I have used pesticides when they've been badly infested and it kills some

but not all, wet-combing seems to eradicate. You can also buy essential oil

mixes to put on the head but I'm not sure whether these work or not. I've

never heard of the mayonnaise thing! lol