[blparent] help with mutent lice

Wed Feb 8 19:57:50 UTC 2012

A friend of mine has dealt with this.
Here is what she said. The recco for a beauty salon is in MD but you can probably find one near you that will pick knits.
Here is her noe.
        lice, you should know, are crawlers, not leapers or flyers. there are the mature ones, and then, there are the nits. a louse can lay eggs pretty frequently (the little slappers!), and then the cycle continues as nits hatch. it's all about getting the nits. and it isn't a reflection on how clean or dirty a person is. in fact, lice attach more easily to clean hair.

and yes, i have tried olive oil, mayonnaise, and other natural attempts. honestly, none of them work and you basically end up smelling like a salad has grown in your hair. it's all about picking nits. :(

arl public schools requires that, should you discover lice, you wash the hair with the OTC shampoo you can find at the drugstore. if that's the case, everyone in the house should wash with it, as a precaution. after you do the wash per the directions on the container (although you should leave it on the hair for longer than their recommended time -- i leave it on for usually like 40 mins), you need to pick nits. this sucks big time, but it is the only way you eventually get rid of them. the first go round, i have gone to a place in kensington, md, where for something like $75 an hour, i can get us all checked. it helps a lot. this is the place:

http://www.adviceonlicemd.com/

anyway, doing the comb thru: you need to do it morning and night, every day until you don't see them any more. the little comb that comes with the OTC shampoo stinks. my favorite comb: the lice meister (no, i'm not making this up): http://www.headlice.org/licemeister/index.htm i think they have a helpful video on how to do it, but you can call me up if you need moral support. when this happens, we buzz the boy's hair. lice have a hard time attaching to crew cuts. (the one time i had them (thank you, kids), i was ready to shave my head.) http://www.ehow.com/how_5660093_pick-nits.html nits look like little white dandruff, usually close to the scalp. the different: dandruff will easily fly off when you ruffle the hair. nits hang on for dear life.

also, i wash all the bedding in the hottest water, every day until the lice is gone. i vaccum any carpets, any bed toys i can't stick in the dryer on high heat for 50 minutes go in a tied trashbag for two weeks (lice don't live when they don't have a human host.) pillows go in the dryer, too.  vaccuum couches.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peggy
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 12:37 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] help with mutent lice

Call your doc's office and ask if they can perscribe a shampoo.  My daughter
had lice one year like all summer, as we learned later she kept getting them
from the neighbor girl who's parents weren't getting rid of them.  And also
what people have said on here already, bag stuffed animals and combs and
brushes ... we left our stuff bagged for two weeks.  Wash all bedding and
keep changing pillow cases everyday!!  Vacuum everyday, couches, chairs,
anything she sits on, when my daughter went through this I wouldn't let her
on the furniture until all the live ones were gone, she had to sit on the
floor, mean maybe but it worked.  And I can't stress enough, get a lice comb
and comb, comb, comb, the more often you comb the better because you have to
get all those live lice out and you have to get the eggs out or they will
hatch and you will be starting all over again.  But definitely ask your
doctor about the shampoo.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lea williams
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 9:35 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] help with mutent lice

Hey. I have never done this, and you should look more in to it.
My cousins had it really bad throughout their childhood and my aunt
would use dawn soap, oil and stuff mixed up to kill it.
I know that dawn is used to kill flees and works really well.
But you should still look up more about this.

HTH

On 2/8/12, Kate McEachern <kflsouth at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I am about to rip my own hair out.  My lovly children with their long
> hair had lice.  I treated Tiffany quickly with organic products and dog
> shampue.  So she is back to school.  Ash is more of a chalenge.  They
> won't
> die.  I have tried vinnager, olive ooil with t-tree oil, dog shampue, rid,
> and this cream rince my docter recamended that was going take care of the
> ishue.  Well, the dam things arn't dead and I had to make an apointment at
> one of those places that prommises they can kill them for like $148 to
> start
> but could be more.  I nead something to kill them before morning so lets
> hear what you got.  I'll try anything at this point and even bought nair
> for
> if they just won't die.
>
> Kate
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