NITS!!!!!!

[sarah113]

My oldest goes play school 5 mornings a week and one of the children there has got nits, but the teachers there cant do anything about it
my question is, is there any ways of preventing her from getting them?
thanx sarah

 

[Flame]

I dont think there is any way of preventing them really short of shaving her head

If you go through it every night then you should catch them early if she has them so wont be as much faffing around to treat.

 

[Urchin]

You can get repellant I got some for Mason in boots and use it when it goes round the class.

 

[sarah113]

Thanx, ill try those

 

[Tiny Sue]

Lice are repelled by lavender oil and tea tree oil, a few drops massaged into the hair after washing. Hope it works for you!

Sue

 

[Gemma & Jake]

If he does actually get NITS the best and cheapest way to get rid of them is to cover the head in conditioner and brush through over the bath with a NIT comb (repeat every day for a few days or until clear). Me and by brothers and sisters used to get them quite a lot when we were younger and my mum tried all of the expensive treatments but the headlice become immune to them and so they don't work. I am not sure about how to prevent them unless you can keep your son away from the little boy with NITS which is probably not practical.

 

[littlebump]

My advise would have been the same as Gemma and Flame - check regularly and wet comb through the conditioner as a lot of the treatments are now ineffective. I didn't realise there were repellants though!

My sister is a teacher and she finds it soooo frustrating - she's even bought some treatment and a comb for one father who's daughter has had permanent lice for well over a year now. They are huge and my sister sometimes sees them crawl down her neck and back into her hair. But I don't think he's even tried to tackle the problem. So all my sister can do is provide the girl with a hair band and tell her to tie her hair up when she's in school - the other parents are constantly complaining about it. It's a world gone mad............

LBxx

 

[Jo]

I find this brilliant when Emily has nits
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... osi_widget
I think they do a repellant as well