This is what I did with my kids and it worked well.

I’ve got a new school starter this year and so far we’ve avoided head lice, but it’s good to know there is a cheaper and not so toxic method of removing them

I’ve been battling head lice since January with my step daughter and it’s frustrating as they are coming from her mums house as her half sister has had them for 5 months and a friends advised this was the best method and I use it all the time

Such a frustrating experience for both parents and children. I’m not looking forward to my own children experiencing this – I know how hard a time friends have had with their children. Will remember this tip

thank goodness these days are over!

Can we send the kids to school tho if there are still lice in their hair. This says to repeat wvery 3 days??? So would that mean they are still able to pass on lice etc.

Defiantly handy to know. Thank you

perfect timing for the start of the school year

Thank you for the very interesting article.

We used this method and it didn’t work at all !! We spent afternoon after afternoon hours after hours to treat the head-lice of 3 of my children, from which my son was the worst. We tried to count the amount of lice we removed per session and it was between the 500 and +1000 !!! On a certain point I treated them every other day in this way with no effect. Of course I tried all the remedies on the market as well and spend many $$$. Then I read a facebook post from a friend of mine about head-lice where one of her friends suggested lice-treatment for dogs !! As I’m a person who’s all pro natural I didn’t think about doing this. But in the end I was so desperate that I went to the pet shop and bought that stuff and applied a couple of drops of this oil on my children’s heads. And since then, now about a year later, we never ever saw 11 head-lice again !

Aaarrgghh! Head lice. Once you start Primary School, it’s unavoidable. My son who had very short hair had head lice a few times. We did all the right things and used a number of different methods, ridding his head of lice. Only for it to return again when others in the class did not treat their hair. I recall reading with a poor little girl who’s hair was just teeming with lice. I had to report it to the teacher who shared my sadness at the process that would require this girl to leave the school (with her siblings who also had head lice) only to return at a later date with her hair untreated by her mother. It made me so sad for those children.

This method works brilliantly. I did this with my daughter, who seemed to pick them up so easily in her waist length hair. The trick is to do it every three or so days for a couple weeks and comb really carefully. We tried all the chemicals, and other than causing a lot of irritation, they never really got rid of the eggs or nits.

Never heard this one before – as kids my mum got a Robi Comb to use on my sister and I, and it worked brilliantly. My sister had several outbreaks of them and it sorted them quickly.
I bought one myself for my kids when my eldest came home from her 2nd day of kindy with the lovely “there’s an outbreak of nits in your child’s class”

Yes, this works well. Head lice love clean hair, because they can hold on well. Other than conditioner, using canola (or other kitchen) oil and combing through with a nit comb works too, but conditioner is much more pleasant. I’ve used a number of commercial products over the years, but some outbreaks seem more resistant to certain brands, and next outbreak may be a different brand. The conditioner trick though is fantastic! (Remember to wash pillow cases and hats when treating your kids too).

Just hearing or seeing the word nits makes my head itchy. God awful little critters!

Not something I have come across yet. But thank you for the fantastic tip

We were shown this at school and thank goodness we were fortunate there was no outbreak that got to us . Thank you and it proves natural remedies do work !

Conditioner can be useful in getting out those ‘tricky’ little nits! The key to getting rid of nits is lots of thorough combing which takes time and checking and continuing treatment for days.

Yes! I think I used it too in the past! And mayonnaise! I had read somewhere that it could help getting rid of head lice. But what a mess to clean your hair afterwards. Ha! Ha!

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  • • mom94125 replied
    • 11 Jan 2016 , 12:21 pm

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  lol mayo? i have heard of kero (which is not recommended at all) but i suppose the mayo is creamy and would help to suffocate and slow down the lice.

Agreed – this is very effective – and a great preventative measure every few months too.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 08 Jan 2016 , 7:04 am

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  This is important – preventative is better than dealing with the little ‘critters’.