Head Lice-help !

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: GUEST,Shiela
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 06:06 PM

Is there a particular brand for this "robi comb" anyone could recommend? Also, where are they to be purchased (drug stores, medical supply stores, etc)? Thanks.

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 06:20 PM

me mother used kerosene on me and me brothers it became a ritual every spring whether we needeed it or not note this is keorsene not gasoline which one of friends used upon her suggestion mistaking the former for the later and the poor child did not have ta worre about haircuts for half a year the conflagration permulgated by the presence of the waterheaters pilot lite by the sink banished the lice and horrificaly the yung boys hare with it thankfully their wer flour saks by the sink however based upon my families experience with three robust roustabout stick yer head into anything ye can stick it or yer stick into methods kerosene is a good enough cure for many things including fly bites on horeses leggs

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 08:49 PM

someone from the MIddle East said they cover the hair with honey, cover overnight, and wash in the morning. It also conditions the hair. And I remember on an aromatherapy list that there was some research done..I think a combination of two oils worked best..can't remember for sure but I think it was rosemary and lavendar..Mixed in a base of some sort..don't use straight..

mg

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: X
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 10:26 PM

Had crabs one time. I saved a strip of hair off and set one side on fire. As they ran across the bare strip to ecsape the fire I stabed them with an icepick.

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: Menita
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 04:39 AM

Were you sitting in the ice at the time and more's to the point, were you naked??? Tell me again where abouts on ones's body one gets crabs??

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 11:54 PM

Lucy - this pubic information site will answer your question.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/lice/factsht_pubic_lice.htm

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: Trevor
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 07:44 AM

I'm itching just from reading this thread. LA, have you tried hitting them with a mallet? My partner went for her piano lesson the other day and was harangued by her teacher's daughter.."I usually wear my hair down but it's up today 'cos Mummy says and I've got millions and millions of creatures in my head but I don't want her to kill the poor creatures and what grade are you?"

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: X
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 10:42 AM

Hey Lucy Ann:

If you truly want to know as to where to get crabs we need to get together! ;-)

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: Menita
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 04:01 PM

Well Sir, What kind of chat-up line is that?! I'll bring all the advice from above. We'll cure you yet!!!

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: GUEST,Grayd
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 06:12 PM

Its all getting a little OTT isn't it?

A treatment that we've used several times over the years:-

Wash hair. Put on plenty of conditioner - don't rinse it back out yet.

Brush hair to remove tangles. Use nit comb (you'll probably have several from the treatments that you have already tried) to remove as many of the little b*ggers as you can find. Remove any that you find from the nit comb onto a tissue using an old, (disused would be preferable) toothbrush.

Rinse hair.

Repeat until 4 days after you stop finding them.

Job done (as we say in here).

Its tedious but it works.

Have fun.

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: GUEST,Grayd
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 06:16 PM

That should, of course, have read "Repeat DAILY until . . ."

But you knew that.

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: ciarili
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 08:28 PM

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Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 12:57 AM

Did it Work?

Is it safe for my little one to now play with your little one?

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: Menita
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 02:10 PM

So what's going on with my little buddy? We've shaved his hair very short and he gets a combing every night and a good shampoo a couple of times a week. So far we're on top of it but who knows whose heads gonna touch his and off we go again-we'll have to comb every night for ever! LA

Subject: RE: Head Lice-help !
From: GUEST,Grayd
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 07:46 PM

I thought this would come back, just like our tiny friends. Its all part of life's rich tapestry. Think of it as an organic thing.

From experience, I can tell you that its likely to happen again (two daughters, long hair, crewcuts not an option {'crewcut' is a UK term for a 'US marines' style haircut} ).

After a while its not such a crisis - just an irritation (fnar, couldn't resist).

The hair conditioner definitely makes the combing out easier, trust me.