We Have Been Dealing with Lice Ugh

Sounds like you are making progress but you've missed some eggs so you have new lice. Comb comb comb!

My friends have had to do several go-rounds and swear by the mayonnaise thing under a shower cap or a plastic bag for secondary (not primary) treatments. It often takes more than one or two treatments. Persistent little devils.

Its a good sign but keep up with the checking, vacuuming, washing stuff, and no sharing brushes and combs.

Lice "treatments" do not work, the bugs have built up immunity to it.

Shampoo their hair, condition it, comb the tangles out, rinse, leave it pretty wet. Have them lay by you with their head on your lap, you can put a while towel down to protect your lap if you want.

Then section their hair off into small sections, Keep it wet with a spray bottle. The cold water stuns the bugs and they'll be moving very sluggishly. Easy to pick off.

Use a small rat tail comb and go through each section, scalp to end. Any live bugs get pulled off and put into a cup of water, they breath air just like we do and will drown.

Any white nits are nothing. They are empty egg sacks. Nits with a black center is a bug about to be born. They need to be pulled off. Either pluck that single hair or snip it off below the nit or slide the nit down the hair shaft using your fingernails. Just get it off and into the water.

Then when you're done with that section pin it up and move to the next section. You MUST keep the hair almost drippy wet. Lice don't like being wet, it makes them cold, and they can't move very quickly when the hair is wet.

After you go through their hair you can dry their hair normally.

If you are still having lice then you're not vacuuming the car seats or the couch cushions or scalding their hair brushes enough or something. You don't have to boil the sheets and bedding or anything like that but you do need to vacuum as much as possible.

Ugh. It's such a pain. I agree with everyone...it just takes tons and tons of combing. I find that doing 3 or 4 treatments and combing out 2-3 x a day with a special comb (I bought the terminator). Do a treatment every 8 days. The eggs take about 8 days to hatch so you will then most likely find tiny lice. They do not lay eggs till about 7 days later. This has worked really well for my daughter. It is so easy to miss a couple of those tiny tiny eggs. She got lice 2ce this year...for some reason her 1st grade classroom had it going around with kids re-catching it from other kids.

I agree with what everyone else has said. I'll just add that you need to make sure that you're also treating everything in your house and car. Upholstery, clothing, sheets, etc.. If you only focus on the hair, you'll just end up with the same problem again in a few weeks.

It can be a good sign. I have been dealing with this for the past year. I get my kids totally clean and then they get it again! The thing is, my 5 yr old gets the worst and he never goes anywhere. And lately my daughter has not even gone by her friends' homes. They never get in my hair which is really weird and my husband keeps his really short. Very frustrating.

you MUST comb thru at least 3 times a day. The only comb you should use is called 'the terminator' lice comb. Ulta has it, maybe sally's too. There is a specific way to comb but you must be diligent about it.

1. get a WHITE small bowl filled halfway with water
2. spray the hair with fairy tails lice spray (found at ulta). this special formula weighs down any live lice so you can find them easier
3. part the hair in 4 sections, putting each section in a bun
4. take one section and pull out a small amount of hair, comb the hair like the direction of a stop sign. in other words, comb the small section downward, then rinse the comb in the bowl of water. next comb the section from the opposite direction and rinse the comb again. then comb the hair from the side and rinse, then comb the hair from the opposite side and rinse again. clip that small section and get another small section from the bun and repeat. keep doing this till all 4 bun sections are combed thru. it sounds like a long tedious process and the first couple times are but its soooo worth it. you should always keep their hair braided or pulled back to keep them from getting lice. also spray their hair with few drops of tea tree oil and water or put tea tree oil in their conditioner.

I would comb 3 times a day for a week. After a week if you don't find nits or live lice, then comb once a day for another week.

My girls got it once and it was the worst couple weeks ever but I was diligent. We haven't had it in 5 years but I do lice checks every few weeks and still spray with tea tree oil and water.

Keep on working on it.
New nits have hatched out.
If it's boys - brush cuts will make things a lot easier.
Girls are harder but shorter hair means it takes less time to go through it with a nit comb.
Some people swear by the mayo on the head wrapped up in a shower cap method.
Might as well give it a try along with what ever else you're doing.