Trying another treatment

[pegkerr]

I feel a little silly to be continually posting about our trials and tribulations with lice, but tonight we're trying a concoction that magentamn brought to our attention here: shampoo plus 3 TB olive oil, 1 tsp tea tree oil, and 1 tsp eucalyptus oil. The girls found the smell to be quite pleasant. We'll let you know how it works. Several loads of laundry are churning through the washer and dryer. Watch for further updates.

Are you surprised that I can't get anything done on my fricking novel?

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[jbru.livejournal.com]

As another option, Ericka mentioned to me today that her nurse suggests slathering the affected peoples in mayo, covering with a showercap overnight and washing out in the morning. It sounded a bit odd to me but I figured you might be willing to try anything at this point.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that you aren't running down the street screaming.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Actually, there was quite a lot of screaming going on in my house yesterday.

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

Someday you will use this in a novel.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Alternately, someday this will be distant enough that you don't feel strongly enough about it to use it in a novel. Either way, you win.

Good luck!

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I'm going to assume you've sprayed the whole house down by this point, but I know there ustta be lice sprays for furniture, car seats, and the like. I've never heard of them being this resilient.

Re: Good luck!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yes, there are sprays, but every website I've read says don't use 'em.

[amandageist.livejournal.com]

This is likely the stupidest of questions, but you've only been mentioning laundry. You have disassembled your couches and chairs and vacuumed them within an inch of their stuffed lives, quarantined or replaced headphones (my best friend got a ferocious case of lice from a set of headphones in a language lab in college), washed throw rugs, vacuumed regular rugs, dried all cushions, etc.? Because it really sounds to me like she's getting re-infested from somewhere, not that they're surviving on her head through treatment after treatment. Probably your treatments are working just fine, but the lice off wherever are fat and happy and jump back on her with tiny cries of joy when she puts her head wherever. Where does she tend to put her head? Does she have a closet cubbyhole, does she crawl under your desk..?

Just brainstorming. Best of luck.

~Amanda

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

We have been vacumning the couch

I must remember to vacumn the windowseat.

[jemyl.livejournal.com]

Peg, it took either four or five full cans of RAID spray, two vacuum cleaner bags, almost a full box of Cheer, plus bleach to go with it, about a box of Twenty Mule Team Borax and two full bottles of that KWEL shampoo before I got rid of the critters on Chris and Linda, plus I cut their hair and combed out all of the nits for the first two days. Now, I did as the druggist said to do and washed their hair EVERY DAY for a week with that stuff and then every day with regular shampoo for the next week. If you don't wash their hair every day for a week you can miss some of the nits, nomatter how hard you try to get them. (I think I actually changed their beds and washed their sheets et al every day for the first four days and then again on the last day of that week. Also, don't forget to do all of their outer clothing like jackets and hats. Yes, it is a pain and it IS possible to get it done and get rid of the critters. Hair cutting is, sadly, absolutely basic to this, however.

I also second what Amanda said about them jumping back on. That is why every day. Meanwhile, maybe Delia could help you figure out every place she puts her head so that you can RAID it good too! Oh, and short hair is much harder to pull, doesn't get snarls nearly as quickly and dries really fast! If Delia is anything like Christine was at that age, she will declare it the "new style" and have all of the other little girls cutting theirs short, lice or not, just to be like her. I've seen it happen. YOu all have my sympathy as I know how much work it is to get rid of all of the pesky little critters! Hugs to both you and Delia.

[zasjah.livejournal.com]

Hi, just jumping in because this sounds oh so familiar.

There was a time my children had lice continously because they kept getting infected at school.

Since my son is asthmatic, we couldn't use any severe treatments because it would provoke an asthma attack and severe eczema, but we finally managed to overcome the problem by lathering their hair generously with olive oil and a few drops of tea tree oil, combing the hair thoroughly with a nit comb, then leaving the oil in for the whole night and rinsing it out in the morning. Added to that we changed pillow cases and sheets every day, let them sleep on a towel so the pillows wouldn't get oily. We did this for a whole week. Then a few days of rest although we did continue combing their hair every morning and evening with the nit comb.
We repeated the oil treatment during the 10th through 14th day after we started the first time so we'd get any new lice that would have hatched.

It wasn't pleasant, and it was very very time consuming, be we did manage to beat the obnoxious lice in the end.

Good luck with it all, I know how awful this can be!

[bardolfk224.livejournal.com]

This usually happens during the summer – my girls, now 11 and 16 would have them when they were little - I don’t know how, but they had lice! And they itch a lot! We tried everything, including what you have mentioned but, did not work….have you ever heard of a cockroach chalk? We buy them in the Chinese store to help keep roaches and other insects away during the summer. You just draw a line on the floor or walls, and insects that will come in contact with it die a few minutes later so instinctively, insects keep away! My daughter used it on her hair (she said it was just an experiment) – she drew lines on her scalp and let it stay there for 20 minutes. Then she shampooed her hair and guess what? Dead lice on the towel! And no more lice after that! It was very effective. I don’t know if it is safe though, so I’m not recommending it to you – it was just her experience and it maybe harmful-I was just thankful that nothing happened to her!

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