[blparent] help with mutent lice

Thu Feb 9 02:37:15 UTC 2012

I had to cut my hair once because I got lice from a laundromat.  Sometimes 
it's the only way to get rid of them.

Jo Elizabeth

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From: "Peggy" <pshald at neb.rr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:00 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] help with mutent lice

> I agree with all of this, but if the over the counter lice shampoo doesn't 
> work then you can get a shampoo perscribed by the doc's office.  I'm all 
> for natural remedies but sometimes, as in the case of lice, they just 
> don't work.  And when buying a lice comb look for the metal ones and comb 
> comb comb ... If none of this seems to be working, you can go and some 
> places will still cut their hair, we had to eventually cut my daughter's 
> hair, hated to do it but hated lice even more.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 1:57 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] help with mutent lice
>
> 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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