Oh and Lice.
My kids have had lice 3 times now, twice from school.
Lice are becoming more and more difficult to get rid of. They are a nightmare and a half. The pesticides, the combing, the cleaning, the combing, the boiling, the combing. The very idea of those bastards make me want to puke.
However, they are a fact of life, and not just for "dirty" people.
Time 1: We tried Walgreens lice killer, mayonaise, olive oil, hair dye, and finally killed them for good with Licex (no longer available that I can find) It took way longer than it should have and cost me well over $100.
Time 2: We tried Rid,Nix, Licex, olive oil overnight, cetaphil, flat iron, blow dryer, and finally killed them with a long, drawn out combination of olive oil and a robotic lice comb (the kind that zaps the live bugs and kills them) Took forever, and cost us more than $200.
Time 3: Listerine. Cost: $15 total over 3 heads, 2 treatments. Total time: 4 hours.
I found out about the listerine treatment on my mommy board. It is by far the easiest, cheapest, most effective method for getting rid of lice. Buy the original listerine (the brown stuff), saturate hair with it, cover with a shower cap for 2 hours, and rinse. They were gone. There were no half live bugs like there were even with the Rid and Nix treatments. There were 0 live lice, and while we did nit comb, I have never been great about not missing some. This killed the eggs as well. We repeated the treatment at 10 days, even though there didn't seem to be any. They have been gone since. Best method you can get, and one of the cheapest as well.
I have heard that lavendar and tea tree oil help keep them away, but I have also heard that they contribute to precocious puberty so we are skipping it for now. I may however, go back to putting their hair up before school.
*Insert twilight theme*
ReplyDeleteThat is really weird. I didn't have any particular reason for thinking about lice since my kids have been in school almost three months now. OMG. Am I reading your mind or are you reading mine?
Also, since I've spoken about how lucky we've been not to get lice the past few years, we're GOING to get them this year. It's some law of irony. When it happens, I'm definitely going to try the listerine treatment. I guess I must have missed it somewhere since I've been so cocksure and lice free the past few years.
KAR
Good lord, I was coming here to tell you that KAR was lice blogging too.
ReplyDeleteMy head is crawling now, I have to get off the computer.