Guest guest Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Good Morning--my daughter came home from school yesterday with the dreaded note that someone in her class was sent home with head lice!!!! UGH!!!She doesn't have it yet---but just in case does anyone know of an alternative treatment..so I can be prepared in case she gets it. I understand a few drops of tea tree oil in shampoo helps...is there anything else??Happy Holidays to all...thank-you for your help!!!!!Liz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 It sounds messy and it is but I do it and it works everytime. I have four kids and it even keeps them from passing it to each other. First coat hair w/vasaline or hair grease wrap in plastic wrap and leave on for a few hours or even over night. This smothers anything alive just like the old mayo trick, but here is the catch. AFTER this wash it out with dawn dish soap, and pour white vinegar over the hair or put it in a spray bottle and saturate the hair and wrap in plastic and do the same either over night or a few hours. This breaks down the glue that hold the nits or eggs on. Wash with dawn again. Then blowdry hair completely and even a little longer then needed because the heat will kill any eggs that didnt wash out. I always braid my girls hair because it keeps it up and can be a little greasy still. This is why people who use hair grease all the time dont get lice! Also regular use of tea tree oil shampoo or tar shampoo is supposed to prevent getting them. Also denorex shampoo is supposed to work to prevent and kill them, but I havent tried this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 >At 02:35 AM 12/19/06, freeseliz wrote: >head lice!!!! >UGH!!!She doesn't have it yet---but just in case does anyone know of >an alternative treatment..so I can be prepared in case she gets it. HI Liz, Lindane is a powerful pesticide & lots of kids have really bad reaction to it, especially since in soaks into the skin & can stay in the system. Some schools are starting to send home a recommendation to slather the head & hair in Mayonnaise, wrap the head in plastic & send the kid to bed, then in the morning wash the hair good. You still have to pick off the nits. When I worked in the Pharmacy I got Head Lice from a customer. I found out while giving myself a Hot Oil Treatment. I was rubbing about a quarter cup of cooking oil through my hair when I felt " sand " in my hair. Closer inspection revealed Nits! Horrors!! I continued with my Hot Oil Treatment, figuring to call my Doc for an Rx to get some Lindane as soon as I was done. So then I wrapped my head & hair in plastic & started wringing out the hot towels from the pan heating on the stove. After 20 minutes of steaming hot towels, then I removed the plastic bag & washed my hair. To my surprise the heat & the oil had loosened the " cement-glue " that Lice adhere the eggs to the hair follicle with. ALL the eggs -Nits- washed out. I still went through my hair with a fine tooth comb, but nothing!! I was so happy, I even told my boss, so she could let parents know there is another way to get rid of Head Lice!! * _\|/_ ~*~%~*~%~*~*~%~*~ JOY & Illumination & Rainbow Laughter-Bubbles! ~Sharri Lorraine~ http://www.mindtoolsgraphics.com/LoreRainbow/Welcome.htm http://www.mindtoolsgraphics.com ~*~%~*~%~*~ ~*~%~*~%~*~ ~*~%~*~%~*~ A Thousand Half-Loves Must Be Forsaken To Take One Whole Heart Home. -Rumi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 We went through this last year when not once but three times our friends' children got lice from public school and decided to share Hellmann's Mayonnaise slathered on dry hair and then wrapped in plastic wrap Leave on for a couple hours or overnight if possible and then rinse with vinegar. You will still need to use a nit comb on everyone but the mayonnaise was much safer and less expensive than the OTC products available. [Liz wrote] re: head lice an alternative treatment..? .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Well, this is kinda odd but my mother swears by it. Once upon a time my mother watched kids during the day. One of the kids had a really bad case of head lice that her mother just couldn't seem to get rid of. My mother had read 'somewhere' to get a jar of the old standby " Dippity Doo " from the drugstore. (Us ladies of a certain age will remember the product very well and the commercials that went with it.) She coated the little girls head clear down to the roots with a thick layer of Dippity Doo, wrapped the childs head in saran wrap and left it on for a half hour. Then they shampooed and shampooed and shampooed it out along with all the lice and eggs. My mom swears that it did the trick and there were no more problems with head lice. I can't vouch for it myself but it's a cheap thing to try and shouldn't be toxic to the child. Toni' , " freeseliz " <freeseliz wrote: > > Good Morning--my daughter came home from school yesterday with the > dreaded note that someone in her class was sent home with head lice!!!! > UGH!!!She doesn't have it yet---but just in case does anyone know of > an alternative treatment..so I can be prepared in case she gets it. I > understand a few drops of tea tree oil in shampoo helps...is there > anything else??Happy Holidays to all...thank-you for your help!!!!!Liz > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Add Tea Tree Oil to her shampoo and use that all over her body. You can add a bit of Tea Tree Oil to your final rinse water too. MY understanding is lice don't like the smell of the Tea Tree Oil so they won't land on her. Remind her not to share a brush, comb, hat, jacket, hair clips or barrettes...ANYTHING hair related with anyone. Suzie On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:35 +0000, freeseliz wrote: <snip> > UGH!!!She doesn't have it yet---but just in case does anyone know of > an alternative treatment..so I can be prepared in case she gets it. I > understand a few drops of tea tree oil in shampoo helps...is there > anything else??Happy Holidays to all...thank-you for your help!!!!!Liz > -- How old you ARE is YOUR business; how old you LOOK is MINE! My store is open every hour of every day - come visit me at http://www.marykay.com/SuzieS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Hi, I have used this on my three kids when my youngest came home with the buggers. In oil, any type you have on hand, vegetable, olive ect. to every one tsp oil add 2 drops of each peppermint, geranium, eucalyptus, and lavender. Massage in hair and leave for thirty minutes. Comb with fine tooth comb. wash with your normal shampoo twice and rinse hair in 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar and 1 cup water with 2 drops each if pappermint, geranium, eucalyptus, and lavender oil. Then comb with a fine tooth comb. You can repeat everyday as needed. We did not see any after the first day. Now everytime we hear of the possibility we start using the rinse to ward off the possibility. patty411 - freeseliz Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:35 AM head lice Good Morning--my daughter came home from school yesterday with the dreaded note that someone in her class was sent home with head lice!!!! UGH!!!She doesn't have it yet---but just in case does anyone know of an alternative treatment..so I can be prepared in case she gets it. I understand a few drops of tea tree oil in shampoo helps...is there anything else??Happy Holidays to all...thank-you for your help!!!!!Liz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 there was an artical i read just recentely that using a very warm hair dryer will also help get rid of head lice with out all the chemicals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 I can't remember where I read this, but it is harmless to try: rub the scalp with mayonnaise. Coat all the hair, it suffocates the lice and nits. A lot safer than those toxic shampoos! you might want to pass this on the parents of the child who was sent home. I hope you won't have to test it. All the best Ien in the Kootenays http://freegreenliving.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 I don't know if it works, but I remember reading an old housewife tale of coating the head with mayo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Hi There, I have 2 beautiful daughters with hair down to their bottoms!!!! we have had head lice!!!! its a real bother - we use NEEM soap its great it kills the critters straight away - but you have to remove the eggs (nits) yourself - you can comb conditioner through dry hair with a nit comb to do this. Hopefully you will remain headlice free and wont have the bother!!!! I also use a mixture of tea tree, lavender and filtered water (just spray on there hair every day) I also plait the hair everyday so its not flying around. Regards Caroline http://alwaysnaturallygreat.com , " freeseliz " <freeseliz wrote: > > Good Morning--my daughter came home from school yesterday with the > dreaded note that someone in her class was sent home with head lice!!!! > UGH!!!She doesn't have it yet---but just in case does anyone know of > an alternative treatment..so I can be prepared in case she gets it. I > understand a few drops of tea tree oil in shampoo helps...is there > anything else??Happy Holidays to all...thank-you for your help!!!!! Liz > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Please let me know what you think of www.lifetransformingwater.com Finest regards, Anthony da silva freeseliz <freeseliz wrote: Good Morning--my daughter came home from school yesterday with the dreaded note that someone in her class was sent home with head lice!!!! UGH!!!She doesn't have it yet---but just in case does anyone know of an alternative treatment..so I can be prepared in case she gets it. I understand a few drops of tea tree oil in shampoo helps...is there anything else??Happy Holidays to all...thank-you for your help!!!!!Liz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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