[Carol]

Are RIFE in school at the moment - just that time of year when they take off again.



Beware everyone with kids at school.

I'm going to be checking us all with the electronic nit comb over the weekend.....by far the best product I've use.
It zaps them cold.

Then a dousing with Olive Oil (or Hellemans mayo) for a couple of hours and the eggs just slide off.

Nice topic for a Friday night I thought!!
:laugh :laugh :laugh

[gil]

Not the dreaded nits!! The electronic zapper is the best thing I've ever used in the anti-nit war with four children. Never used olive oil though! My hairdresser said to apply conditioner after washing hair and NOT rinse it off, so hair is too slippy for nits to hold onto. Tried it with Franca (7, with v long hair) a few months ago and it proved effective. I thought it might make her hair go all cloggy and matted, but it looked fantastic (and nit-free!! :clap :clap )
Gil

[Carol]

probably the same principal Gil.....


I've just Robi-combed my own hair as I was REALLy itchy!!

Pleased to report - teacher person seems to have escaped the little beasts for now...... :nice1

[Moorf]

*envisaging Carol sat at home with Hellmans on her head*

:laugh :laugh

[Carol]

*envisaging Carol sat at home with Hellmans on her head*

:laugh :laugh

drinking Chardonnay......watching Patrick Swayze.....
:laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh

[driver]

Are they as prevalent in high schools? my three are that age but its not as bad as it was in primary here. (so far).

[K&CS]

I've never found the electric nit comb to be any good. The only thing that seems to work (and is what the experts recommend), is the nit busting ie combing them out of wet hair morning and night. My 2 had it really badly last summer and I tried everything and eventually tried the morning and night combing and although very time consuming it did the trick! We had nit combs in every corner of thet house! I obsessed about them last summer - even used to dream about them!

[Moorf]

:cheers

[Carol]

I dont know - never having worked in a high school.
My sixteen year old has hair down to his shoulders.....lets hope not!
:?

[clarabell]

After you have ellimated them, use tea tree conditioner on your kids hair. Works a treat, you'll never see em again! (the nits that is!) :mrgreen:

[Avalon]

Apparently the olive oil suffocates the little blighters! (and conditions hair perfectly while you are at it).

Wet combing with conditioner is definately the best way. Gets the eggs out.

Thank god people are turning away from the chemicals - expensive and I never saw it work succesfully for my customers.

[chips]

It's a mare when you check your kids in the morning,and then they return full of them in the evening. Lice buster is quite good. It's about $7.75, and contains no chemicals just things like ,birch,nettle,horsetail, chamomile. It's a solution which you comb through, and it gets ther eggs really well by loosening the glue.
Tried the oil one, and "shone" for a couple of day's afterwards .

Good luck with the busting of those little critters.
chips

[jan]

My daughter has quite long hair, so I check her quite regularly. What bugs me is why the other mums dont? It just causes a massive knock on effect.

I am itching just talking about it.

[jocalla]

My daughter has quite long hair, so I check her quite regularly. What bugs me is why the other mums dont? It just causes a massive knock on effect.

.

TOTALLY AGREE!!

My daughter has got really thick, long hair, so they are a night mare when she has had them in the past. The best way I find to deal with this, is we have been in a routine now for a couple of years, and have been nit FREE by........ when ever I wash her hair, I just go through it with the 'nit comb', whilst coming her hair through. Definately better to prevent them making my daughters head their home, than trying to get rid of them. :nice1

[Paul and Linda]

Oh how disappointing, I thought by the title of this thread you were talking about estate agents again! :mrgreen:

[gil]

:laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh
Gil

[GeorgeM]

I believe that in NZ the problem of nits is at its greatest in Wellington - apparently nits are always more prevalent in a beehive :laugh

[bob_the_engineer]

Olive oil on your head, I’ve never heard of that one before!
When I was a kid it was just a case of nit season, time for hair off, wouldn’t have been so bad if we hadn’t all had such big flipin ears :uhoh

Olive oil better idea

Bob

[Carol]

It's certainly a better option than some of the "shampoos" around at the moment - only word for them are poisons.
I'd rather Not be using them on my six year old!


Doyou know - I even know of one mother who proudly tells everyone she douses her child's hair in Kerosene when she gets nits.


*gulp*

Cant believe what some people do to their kids!

[bob_the_engineer]

:laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh


Sorry I couldn’t help laughing, please tell me she doesn’t dry the poor kids hair in front of the wood burner OMG, I’d go for the shaved head any time!

Bob

[chips]

Doyou know - I even know of one mother who proudly tells everyone she douses her child's hair in Kerosene when she gets nits.

Well funny you should say that ,but the chemist said that people here in the far north are restorting to thoses type of measures. He, of course ,suggested NOT to do it. Better to itch, then have your little person intoxicted by some horrible chemicals.

[Tara Sage]

I hate Nits just the thought of them make me itch especially seen as when ever our little cherub gets them he manages to share them with me.

[jonSE]

I feel quite left out - I never had nits as a child despite having long hair back in the seventies.

No danger of nits now - any selfrespecting nit would consider my head to be social housing at best.

Jon Waiheke

Nitless and hairless

[Jo and Andy]

Never had nits as a child, but Rhiannon got them at school 2 years ago, she has long blond hair, but ohh so much of it, the hairdresser regulary thins it out.

We used a shampoo to get rid of it then, but found that the hour of sits and carefully checking every inch of her head was better. Manually getting rid of them, I think I was quite lucky and caught them early. 2 weeks of work and she was free (my head meanwhile had little sores where I kept attacking it with a nit combe, just incase).

As well as doing her hair, all her toys and pillows etc, went in the freezer for a few hours, and I put her duvet in the sun. (nits don't like ultraviolet light).

Rhiannon has not had nits since, as she never ever has her hair down at school I learnt how to do French plats, it's strange in the holidays to see here with her hair down. Tea tree conditioner and shampoos, and I also heard lavender oil in the hair is good as a prevention when they are about. They don't like the smell.

I like to think that there is a reason for every creature in the world, they all do something good, but CANNOT think of any reason why Nits or wasps should be allowed to be here.

Some schools in US, and now UK are having Nit busting weeks at school where parents are sent letters asking for a period of 2 weeks to check their kids hair everyday and remove any nits. When you get the whole school involved, like that it can clear a school up for about a term. (Does not take account of the kids whose parents don't care unfortunatley).

Fingers crossed for a nit free year for you all.


Ahh my head it itchy now, (like the new edit function instead of having to do another post).