Headlice

[mel35]

Bizzybee- you have just given me an idea- next time one of my kids has headlice I might try putting olive oil mixed with teatree and lavender oil overnight in their hair and washing out in the morning. I spend an absolute fortune on lice treatments, that quite often don't work, because I always treat everyone if one has them. With most of the treatments that do work I have found they stop working after I have used them a couple of times.

The white conditioner is a good method too and it helps the eggs come out easier, but if you miss just 1 egg you're back to where you started from.

Now I'm getting off this thresd coz it's making my head itchy

[capricorn]

Thanks Mel I didn't know that about the white conditioner thingy It's enough of a problem when you or your kids have the little blighters you want to make sure you get every single one of them first time around

[MissieK]

My sister had long, thick white-blonde hair growing up & had huge problems with lice.

I can remember once she had heaps of eggs and Mum spent hours combing them out & she missed about 2 weeks of school because the council said that all the eggs had to be gone before she could go back!!! Even though they were all dead. Dad got dressed in his power suit and marched down to the council & demanded they let Jenny go back to school, or they could pay for a tutor to home school :Hehe: That did the trick

I'll remember about the conditioner, etc. Thankfully we haven't had any problems - yet.

Melissa