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Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

In the comment below.

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

I have headlice.* My hair is super thick and despite multiple treatments and combing I cannot get rid of them.

Has anyone got any advice? I'm beginning to think shaving my head is the only thing I can do and I really, really don't want to do that.

(*Caught, of all places, from a homeless guy who gave me a hug after I bought him a hat.)

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

Have you tried the mayonaise+plasticwrap method of suffocating them?

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

No I haven't tried that one. I've been using drugstore bought treatments. I'll google it, thanks.

Any idea how successful it's supposed to be?

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

0%.

It doesn't work. At all. Urban myth.

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, I was going off of parent referrals and this site: http://headlicecenter.com/head-lice-mayonnaise/

Which says it will kill the lice, but not the eggs. But there is a solution for that there too.

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

Its worked for my mom before

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

... yeah, see... the problem is that there are people who will swear to all the old gods and the new that drinking kale juice cured their cancer or whatever. That's why sensible people take anecdotal "evidence" with a grain of salt.

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

A finetoothed comb, headlice shampoo, and patience. Or shave your head.

That is basically your options. If you are a man and have a beard or hairy back then make sure that the lice haven't gone full body. It can happen.

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I've been using and it has had no effect at all. I guess it's head shaving.

I'm a woman. But my partner has a beard. :/

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

Has your partner been using the comb and shampoo too? If not then you'll just keep getting reinfested, because chances are that you have contaminated him too.

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

Not yet. We've combed him a couple of times and he seems free. But yeah, we should really keep checking.

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

Using lice shampoo, and coating my hair with conditioner every night to help with combing it through with the headlice comb thing. I too have super thick hair and honestly it took weeks to be rid of them. One of them plopped off of my head one day onto my desk at school and scuttled around which was mortifying.

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

I think you also need to do something with your bedding maybe? I haven't had lice since I was a kid, but I recall my parents having to put some stuff in the freezer and maybe also wash it.

Re: Really gross question

[diet_poison]

yeah, before treatment wash all your shit that your head touches - use alcohol or boiling water to sanitize stuff when possible, throw out stuff like hairbands that can be replaced, etc. You can bag stuff for a while and they'll die but I don't remember how long. It's a short enough time period to be a viable solution for certain items like hats though.

Re: Really gross question

[diet_poison]

Oh no. :(

I had headlice fourish years ago and I also have super thick hair. The only thing that got rid of them was when my mom got some (somewhat expensive IIRC) prescription medicine and painstakingly worked it into every inch of my hair (I would definitely not have been able to do that myself). She had to hack off 10 inches of my hair to make it work which I'm still sad about. :(

If you can, see a doc and get the strongest stuff you can possibly get. The over-the-counter stuff did not work for me. Have someone else put it in your hair as thoroughly as possible. Then take a shower and rinse it out. I don't remember if it had to sit first but if so it wasn't that long. The label should say.

If you can't afford to do that I don't know what other advice to give you aagh. I can't imagine how devastated I'd have been if I had to cut all my hair off.

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

So my parents were super hippies and wouldn't use normal delousing shampoo on me when my whole third grade class caught them. There are a couple of companies that make tea-tree (melaleuca alternifolia) oil shampoo, but my mom went one better and got a bottle of the undiluted oil and a plastic nit comb. Then she had to go buy a metal comb because tea tree oil will dissolve certain kinds of plastic. Get some gloves, test them to make sure they won't dissolve, test your skin to make sure you won't break out in hives, and then comb tea tree oil through your hair. It'll kill lice and eggs and then you wash it out with normal shampoo. You can dilute the tea tree oil a bit with olive or other cooking oil, say 50/50. Good luck.

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

There is a non-toxic way to kill them off. It's called the Cetaphil method and I have used it on my kids in the past. It is laborious but effective.

The generic version of Cetaphil at Walmart is about 1/3 the price of the namebrand but just as effective.

The process is long and tedious but, IMO, worth it. http://www.seattlechildrens.org/medical-conditions/symptom-index/lice/

Re: Really gross question

[(Anonymous)]

Make a dry shampoo of diotomaceaous dust and use that with a fine toothed comb. Then rinse your hair nightly for a week with a solution of water and tea tree essential oil (25 drops oil per gallon of water is starting baseline).

Be sure to launder all clothes and bedding or they will reoccur. Use vinegar with tea tree essential oil in place of fabric softener and do not use dryer sheets if you normally do because it will make everything way more flammable than dryer sheets already do.