33 weeks prego and daughter with lice

hwilbanks1 · June 2012

OMG!! Along with all I have going on and I find a little lice bug in my daughters hair!!! eeek!!! Anyone know if it's safe for me to use the lice shampoos on her?? What happens if I get it? Or, does anyone know easy natural remedies for it?

I'm so worried! Dont know where to start!! Tongue Tied

VanessaB24 · June 2012

My SD had lice 4x in a row...Her stupid school didn't really do the head checks....but her grandma found this at home remedy on google. it was with vinegar and oil and other things. It worked great for her. Google it first before buying the shampoo...she told me it was pretty harsh and expensive.

APendola · June 2012

To be safe, I'd probably ask someone else to give her the treatment shampoo.

If you end up with it, I'd ask your doctor before using any treatments.

Eaky77 · June 2012

:::lurker:::: Its not just her head you have to worry about... but also your whole house. Her stuffed animals need to be bagged for about a week. You have to spray the couch, her bedding, everything. You miss one egg, or one lice itself, and it will be a reoccurring thing. I worked in daycare, and it was always a pain. I also had it as a kid a couple of times... if the whole house, and even the cars are not sprayed, you will just keep getting it back. Good luck! Maybe you can find a friend, or dh/bf/so to spray for you?

AmberMH08 · June 2012

My SD has past her butt length hair its insane... She had lice 3x in a row I'd clear it up she would go home her mom never cleaned the house properly till the other kids got it... Go get shower caps-mayo-listerine and vinager... Put everyone in mayo and under a shower cap just as a precausion. let that sit for ahile then rinse with listerine and then rise with vinigar <this loosens the eggs and lice they stick by spitting and then attaching themselves icky...then use a lil fine tooth flea comb for dogs or lil plastic lice comb and then take a hot shower cause you will all feel icky....

make sure to pack up any stuff animals in plastic bags for 2-3 weeks and put them in an out building so the eggs if on them will die out And wash everything in ur nomal laundry soap and add vinegar on HOT HOT water and HOT HOT dryer setting... I washed everything even in rooms I knew she hadn't been...

Good luck its very stressful and not fun situation it took 4hrs just to fine tooth comb my SD hair each time and while pregnant and u can't bend to wash/rinse and comb hair makes it worse... and BTW the expensive kits don't work we tried that first and had to have 3boxes for my SD hair and they were still crawling after that pharmisist said they were immune to those pestisides now.

ilovelife · June 2012

I got lice a lot as a kid...my mom did vinegar and water rinses. It helps losen the eggs and kills the lice. Good luck...it's a nightmare! My sister had super thick hair so lice loved her head!!!

caeraRose · June 2012

This shouldn't be as big of a deal as others are making it sound... I got lice this fall from marching band, and I couldn't use the sprays or the treatment partially because of pregnancy, and partially because of an allergy to ragweed.

DH just combed through my hair every day for a week, then every 2 days for week 2, then 3 days for week 3, etc. until it had been a month since you found any lice. It's time consuming, but natural and very effective, and after about 2 weeks each combing session didn't take very long because we had pretty much gotten them all out. Also very important - every day for 2-3 weeks do a hair-dryer treatment - you can look these up online. They aren't super effective at killing lice, but they kill about 80-90% of the eggs, so if you do them daily you kill off the eggs pretty quickly.

You definitely need to shake out her pillow slip every day for the first 2 weeks or so, and if you have a lot of cloth furniture you should vacuum it out regularly, but lice don't usually like to jump off heads unless they're jumping to another one... just have her be careful when she brushes her hair, keep her hairbrush clean (you can usually throw them in a pot of boiling water), wash or throw away all of her hairbands, and of course make sure she keeps her hair away from others.

ceereneephotog · June 2012

I remember getting lice when I was little once from the neighbor kids, and my mom soaked my hair in olive oil one night before bed, put a shower cap on my head and I slept with it in the whole night. It suffocated it all and it was all gone after I woke up and took a shower the next day.

Mrshelmick · June 2012

I got lice constantly as a kid. I know how hard it is to get rid of. My mom would soak my hair in baby oil, french braid it and leave it in for a few days, then would comb through it strand by strand til she picked every last egg and louse out. All of my toys got bagged up for a week or two, then ran through the dryer before I got them back, beds were stripped and sprayed. Basically the whole room was, and the whole house, was sprayed. Good Luck!

adrdek · June 2012

My DD caught it several times this year in school while I was preggo. It is safe to use the shampoos and everything. Make sure you buy the kit that has the spray and do your whole house...wash all the blamkets and such in HOT water and bag anything that cannot be washed tightly for a week! Such a pain! Good Luck!

kleinkidsnow · June 2012

I'm scratching just reading the post. We had them last month. We tried everything too and finally called a service which was wonderful, but expensive. Now we know how to lice comb ourselves. You can also check out a website called LiceCombing.com where they give you instructions. The parents at our school use the site because it's science based and those who can't afford a service can use the free directions. I didn't know about the site until after our buggy journey was over, but I hope this helps someone else.

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