Aww Peg, I know how frustrating that can be. When Chris and Linda were about 8 and 11, Chris got lice. I was in a panic as she had long hair. So did Linda and we didn't know how long the lice had been around. What I did was to cut both of their hair and get the special shampoo and the lice combs and go through their short hair. Then I washed their hair every day for a week. For the house, I bought about six cans of RAID that said it killed lice and I spayed all of the furniture and the the carpets and then I vacuumed, threw away the vacuum cleaner bags outside and repeated the process. I also washed their bedlinen and then sprayed it every day for a couple of weeks just to be sure. We had no more lice so that process worked. It was also much easier than washing everything every day! Oh, and I threw out all of our combs and brushes and bought new ones.
Good luck with it. Chris got the lice from allowing her hair to touch a drinking fountain at school. She saw a louse in that fountain two days later. We were in California where lice are a problem year round. They are here too and I worry that one of my workers children will pick them up and bring them here. My hair is long, finally, for the first time in 45 years and I surely would hate to have to cut it all off because someone brought a louse into my house!
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Date: 2004-08-09 01:32 am (UTC)Good luck with it. Chris got the lice from allowing her hair to touch a drinking fountain at school. She saw a louse in that fountain two days later. We were in California where lice are a problem year round. They are here too and I worry that one of my workers children will pick them up and bring them here. My hair is long, finally, for the first time in 45 years and I surely would hate to have to cut it all off because someone brought a louse into my house!