just me venting...i HATE head lice!!!!!! (very long)

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Originally Posted by 4theSNAKElady

OH GAAAAAWWDD!!!!! I gotta stop readin' this thread!!! It's makin my skin crawl!!!

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Me too...

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Originally Posted by BPelizabeth

This is what I have been told by several hair dressers. Lice hate hair products #1....use them everyday. And #2 wash their hair once a month with listerine....this will ward them off. I have no idea why it works....but knock on wood we have never had to deal with this and I work at school! Hugs are everyday by hundreds of kids for me.

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Yes...Children of Color or those that have a variable hair texture, (or their parents)that use oil based products on a req'lr basis, report dramatically fewer cases of head lice. I have also heard that Tea Tree Oil prevents lice, but I have never used this on my children. I do use a castor oil based dressing on my children's hair EVERYDAY and pray that we never have to encounter head lice. I know its horrible and I empathize with anyone who has had to address it.

You think thats bad.. Try getting rid of scabies! Here is a scary story..

I had to do my laundry at the laundrymat quite a few years ago. For some reason I went to one I hadn't gone to before. It looked clean and was fairly new but on a not so good side of town. The next day I put on my clean clothes. By that night my chest was on FIRE! Within 2 days the itchy rash went from bra-line to waist and up to my shoulders. These are microscopic bugs smaller than lice that spread like wildfire and itch so bad you cant even sleep. I went to the Dr and was given an insecticide lotion and told to bleach everything in my house. I didnt leave the house for a week due to cleaning and not wanting to give it to anyone else. I was rid of them quickly thankfully.

So good luck on your lice mission and BEWARE of laundry mats!

wow thats scary. ive heard of scabies but even worse i used to do all my laundry at a laundromat including my infant daughters clothes...wow thankfully we never got anything. thanks for the heads up. you'd think the bugs would be killed by all the soap & water & the cycling of the washing machine...that makes me wonder if washing everything really gets rid of lice...

That's why we just bagged everything up for 2 weeks, and THEN washed it. If soap and water don't always kill them, it's absolutely certain that time will.

The parent of the kid who brought them to the house in the first place had 'treated' them with tea tree oil...doesn't work, obviously.