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First, have someone you trust with a good eye sit you down on a sheet and literally pick through every inch of your hair, pulling out all the eggs that they can find and the lice themselves. Start on one side of the scalp and work to the other so that they can’t run back into what’s already been picked clean without being seen. It is extremely time consumming but it is much better than other treatments. Make sure that all the eggs and lice get disposed of and not just carelessly dropped so that they can get on someone again. In fact, the lice should be squished.

Then, coat your scalp and hair with mayonnaise. If your hair is long, wrap it in a towl to keep the mayonnaise from getting on everything. This sounds gross, I know, but it’s better than the chemicals because it prevents anysurviving lice from thriving in your scalp habitat and they can’t get immune to it like they do with the chemical treatments.

Wash everything: your clothes, your bedding, vaccuum the heck out of your furniture and carpets, put your stuffed animals or unwashable items in the freezer for a couple of days.

Then, go on with life and have someone check your scalp again every three days for the next couple of weeks, just to be sure that you haven’t gotten reinfected.

There’s a spray you can get for fabric, I’m not sure what it’s called. For your hair, buy some tea tree extract and mix it in with your shampoo. (It’s better for your hair than the chemicals.) First though, mix twice what you’d use for your shampoo (it’d be on the bottle) into half shampoo, half oil (olive and coconut are good for your hair, but any kind will do. Rinse your hair in hot water, then put in a bunch of the oil-shampoo mixture, and either wrap your head in a towel or put on a shower cap. Then let it sit for an hour or two, however long you can stand, but at least an hour. Then wash out the oil in hot water with the tea-tree spiked shampoo. (You can buy premixed, but it’s cheaper to make your own.)
Next, comb your hair with the finest-toothed comb you can to get out the lice and nits, being sure to wipe off the comb with a tissue between combs.
Then, soak the comb and and all your brushes in hot, soapy water, preferably with tea-tree in it. Spray your bed and anything cloth with the spray (I think you can get it at most drugstores or you can use more tea tree diluted in water in any spray bottle). Don’t forget curtains, couches, and chairs. If you have stuffed animals, put them in garbage bags (double bag so they don’t tear) and tie the bags shut. Leave them in there for at least a week.
Wash all your clothes after you do the hot-oil treatment, but don’t worry too much about them, except for hats and scarves. Those you need to spray.
Finally, twice a week or so, comb your hair with the fine-toothed comb to check for lice, and if you find any, do another hot-oil treatment. If you’re in a place where you are regularly exposed to lice, do a treatment every two weeks to prevent them, and keep using the tea tree in your shampoo.
Also, remember this is not because you’re dirty or anything like that. I’ve heard that clean hair actually attracts lice more than not clean hair.

How do you know for sure it’s lice? Did you share a hair brush with someone, or in close contact with someone your sure has them? Be sure to include a little bleach in the washer, as plain detergent won’t kill them. Do you see little semi transparant bugs clinging to the hair shaft? You can easily see if you use a magnifier.To be certain to kill them go to your local drug store and purchase one of the killer products available.Also there is alot of info. if you google head lice. Good luck….

No, no, no, not one of the killer products. The chemical treatments can damage your hair, and burn your scalp and there’s some debate that the chemicals in the treatments can be harmful to children.

These products do work and for sure rid you of the problem. The school nurses recommend, and are still the #1 product on the market for treating. Much less harmless then the prescriptions from a DR. office.Fast effective and Works quickly.If in doubt, google alternative remedies, then decide.

But they aren’t worth the damage to your hair. You should use a natural remedy in this case.

Use a blow dryer to them, even on low heat, you can kill them.

Cutting your hair won’t get rid of them. That’s a myth. They don’t live in hair, they live on the scalp. Even people with crew cuts can get lice.

If you have long hair however, you can see them clinging on the hair shaft. True! cutting won’t get rid of them. Blow dryer till you get a treatment to throughly get rid of the nasty buggers….

I didn’t know about that one.

yes, did before on a kid. She had very long hair and they were quite visible along her long strands. Disgusting things :(

Yeah, totally gross.

lol….

Well, if you want to cut it, go ahead. :) But that’s always been a sore spot for me because I’ve always had long hair, so… come to your own conclusions.

reg. shampoo isn’t going to kill them ,sorry!If not on the hair shaft then more antagonizing to your scalp. Go to walmart and get the proper medicated shampoo and be finally from them. I woudn’t take my chances on a maybe.Go with what works…If your spiking your hair anyways, get the shampoo to kill them. Just condition afterwards.You’ll be glad you did :)

I think the heat kills them.

And lice shampoo was implied, you’re right.

Wash ALL of your bedding–pillow cases, sheets, blankets, mattress pads–in HOT water. Wash the sheets with some bleach added. Sterilize combs and brushes–or discard them completely. If you wear any hats, sterilize them or get rid of them. Warning: there may be someone in your circle of friends who is infecting you and others–beware!

although lice is not fun to have… know that there is nothing wrong with you… and that lice tend to stick to clean people.. dirty people usually have icky heads and they cant feed from..

as for lice.. it is hard… i remember my daughter had it and i would sit there morning and night with that little lice comb… every day for weeks… i bagged up her stuffed animals and all her belongings… just like you are suppose to do.. i even used the lice shampoo and i still couldnt get rid of them… i spent over 300.00 in one week just on sprays and shampoo and stuff… and then every day combing her hair in the morning and night… and found that i was losing it… and i didnt even suffer from them…

then.. i finally went to the store, bought roach bombs… i closed her room off and let about 3 of them off… one on her bed… and i shut the room down for 2 days… combed through her hair and never had a problem again…

If you are going to use a lice shampoo, just realize that “super-lice” are a big epidemic right now. They are lice that have developed a tolerance for the chemicals in the shampoos so it doesn’t kill them any more. That’s why I suggested the natural methods first rather than just running to the store and buying lice shampoo.

Me too. Tea extract also keeps them away, repells them.

No, not until you get rid of. They can be spread.

What did you use? You need to get completly rid of. Do you have a fine tooth comb, like one for pets? really spaced close together? You need this to comb out the eggs.

What did you use? Do you have a magnifier to look through?

Can you look through a magnifier?You will see them if they are there and any moving.

A really fine comb should get rid of the eggs, too. Just keep combing until you don’t see anything on the teeth anymore.

Yes. With a little bleach.

Don’t forget couches, cloth-covered chairs, and bag up any stuffed animals you have for at least a couple weeks.

If you used the rid as directed, then you should be safe.Use a little bleach in washer full of the hottest water.Bomb the room and leave for a few hrs. Just cover all foods etc.

I’d throw out the pillow. They are cheap to replace.