About a month ago, the schools did a lice inspection. According to my 5 year old the teachers went around with a pencil sticking in the students hair and inspecting. I suspect they used the same pencil on each child. Every since then, my daughters have been complaining of non-stop itching. I have checked their hair for lice, but I do not see anything unusual. We share pillows and even though they are suppose to use a separate comb and brush than I do (I put oil in my hair and it doesn’t look good in their hair), they often use my comb and brush. However, I am not experiencing any itching and lice is contagious.* Am I being paranoid, because the school used the same pencil or is it possible they have lice and I haven’t found it yet (or my hair type does not provide a breeding ground?)
Not to make a race issue out of this, but I went to all black schools and lived in all black areas so it was never an issue (our hair is too dry I was told). So I really do not know what I’m looking for. I’m googling it now and haven’t learned much.
*Subhanallah, I’m psychosomatic, because as soon as I finished this entry and was about to post it, I came down with the itches!
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Jan 03, 2008 @ 03:45:44
Not that our hair is too dry, bu it is too oily. Lice lay eggs and cling at the root of the hair shaft and they look like small whitish clear flecks that are just a bit bigger and fuller than a flake of dandruff. If you are unsure you can treat the girls anyway with a special shampoo called RID. It comes with a special small (and I mean small) tooth comb that you use to remove the egg casing after the treatment. The pencil thing is probably not the cause because lice jump, they would not like take a ride on the tip of the pencil. But sharing combs with friends is a no no because the egg casing can be on strands of hair left in the comb and be transfered to the next person that way.
Wa Billahi Tawfiq
Jan 03, 2008 @ 05:35:03
Salaams Sis:
According to this site (pdf file), any child can get lead lice:
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/schoolhealth/pdf/headlice.pdf
Jan 03, 2008 @ 08:14:40
I think its the other way around that AA hair tends to be dryer not oily.Being that our hair is kinky moisture(oil,creams) don’t roll down our hair and straight hair is easier to penetrate that thick kinky hair.My hair is very dry I have to part my hair in sections just to get it all in and it still looks like I didn’t do anything.Putting that aside we still can get lice hey crabs are lice and AA definitely can get those. Lice do like wet moist places as oppose to a dry place.
Jan 03, 2008 @ 08:17:07
You would be able to see the lice if you are looking for them. Yes, they are small, but you would see them – particularly in dark hair. The egg cases might be harder to see – but I don’t think their heads would itch if there were only egg cases. Also – if there are egg cases there should be adult lice.
If you want to cover the bases, you could rub oil into their hair…olive, coconut, sesame…because the egg cases can not hold onto the well-oiled head. Leave it in for at least a few hours – longer if you can/or want to. You can add some tea tree oil if you have it.
If you DO find that they have lice (even though I think you would see them….) combing and picking is the best thing you can do.
(AND I pray that you do NOT have to deal with this!)
Jan 03, 2008 @ 16:41:08
Thanks everyone. Dh is out on a mission right now to find tea tree oil and a nitpicking comb. Alhamduillah, I have a trained specialist in lice detection in my home. MY INDONESIAN MAID!!! Really, they sit for weeks in the capital of their country, at an agency waiting on assignment. During that time man y of them get lice, because of the cramped quarters. So they are good at this. I remembered my friend having her maid nitpick her kids hair, so a little while ago I called her into the room, parted my kids hair, and said, “maloom?” lol (we can’t communicate. She immediately knew what I wanted and went into action. I told her to hold off, I just wanted to see if she undeerstood and now I have dh getting all the supplies. He seemed to take offense to my “black ppl don’t get lice” and said that he has never heard of a case of a whte person ever having lice and that he lived in all white areas and went to all white schools and that maybe some Mexicans got it!!!!rofl. Comical indeed, how in the world are we married?
Jan 03, 2008 @ 17:20:52
Oh yeah, white people get lice. Do they ever!
I am very thankful that your maid is an expert nitpicker. IF they end up having lice, this will save you HOURS!
Jan 03, 2008 @ 22:27:32
Hmm, what about Asian people having lice? I had to de-louse a good friend who caught lice while at Barnard College in NY. Her dad’s Chinese and her mom’s Anglo-American. I wonder which “half” of her caught the lice?
Jan 03, 2008 @ 22:34:10
oh man your husband is funny! LOL
I’m about as caucasian as they come and trust me – we DO get lice. My kids got it from their daycare, many many years ago now but oh my goodness was it a pain in the neck.
And be careful what kinds of pharmaceutical shampoos you use – one of the ones we used in Canada literally caused my daughter’s hair to fall out in a few places, it was so strongly medicated. It was awful.
Once you know what you’re looking for, it’s easy to find – if you have the “nits” (the eggs) then you can guarantee there’s a live one around there somewhere…the sucker is just being elusive. They move fast, and they aren’t necessarily big – but they’re ugly. Ew. The nits tend to be close to the root of the hair, and they’re almost alongside the hair..not like dandruff, but something akin to that if you’re not looking closely..but your fingers will know the difference…it’ll feel like a little bump, and you’ll have to actually use your fingers to pull it off the hair, as it’ll “stick” to the hair. The nits aren’t floating in the hair – they’re attached.
Those fine-toothed combs don’t cut it, not in my experience…you have to use your fingers and just feel your way through. That’s the only way.
My mom, as a kindergarten teacher, battled this fairly regularily in her classroom. Children play together, if one has it, the live ones jump from head to head. What she found worked was sending a newsletter home, advising mothers to braid all children’s long hair, and as soon as a child came into the classroom, she put their coats in garbage bags. Contrary to popular belief, the little suckers can live for quite a while.
Soaking your child’s head in oil, covering it with a shower cap, and then washing it out in the morning in my opinion is probably the most effective, cheap and healthy way to deal with this. And then every night, for the next two weeks, keep checking. It’s hard on the kids to sit for so long, but necessary. The nits/lice are most commonly found at the nape of the neck, or slightly above (it’s warmer there) and also above the ears, and at the crown of the hair. Again, it’s warmth that they love…and the reason that any of us can get this nasty thing is because they love CLEAN HAIR.
Now I’m itchy, just thinking about it. Yuck. lol.
But don’t feel bad sis if your kids have it – just start washing all your bedding and brushes immediately (what a ton of work that is!) and keep the kid’s hair braided (if you have girls and their hair is longer). Also, watch out for their friends they play with…that’s usually how it’s spread.
I couldn’t understand how come after doing all of this for like a month that I STILL was finding the odd one in my daughter’s hair. I declared war. I checked EVERY friend she had who played over. And guess what? When I checked one little girl who lived on our block, her hair was literally alive. It was horrible.
Her mom said her daughter hated having her hair combed by her, screamed blue murder, so she didn’t comb it. Yeahhh…at age 6, that’s wise..great parenting there..LOL…
And her mom was a teacher, her dad a doctor – so uh – hygiene has NOTHING to do with it. This child smelled like a rose, had a bath every night, that wasn’t the issue. She’d gotten it from another child, and it had spread like wildfire.
Okay, now I’m really itchy. Thanks a LOT for the memory sis lolol…insha Allah you get rid of the heebee jeebies!
Jan 03, 2008 @ 23:08:35
Assalaamu alaykum!
Yes, white people do get headlice, LOL. I had it once or twice when I was a child (under 12yrs); once one child has it, infestation can easily spread through the whole class as younger children don’t know that they shouldn’t share brushes, combs, hats, hair accessories, hijabs, pillows etc. Huda has given some excellent advice IMHO. Yes, headlice has nothing to do with the cleanliness of the child – actually it was often the grubby kids that didn’t get it, haha. It’s really, really important to give that second treatment after seven days as the eggs hatch after seven days and you only need to let one egg escape to get another infestation. You must get all the eggs off as the shampoos/treatments mostly kill the live lice not the eggs/nits – so you’ll have to wash the bedding again when you do the second treatment as you will have some of them hatch in the interim.
Here is a link with info that might help (from Australia, so some of the products might be region specific):
http://www.mitchamcouncil.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=244
I like herbal remedies; I think the tea tree oil is definitely worth a try – I would mix in some pure lavender oil as well if you can get it. My sister washes her dog with an aromatherapy dog shampoo containing lavender, tea tree, and pennyroyal (which is actually cheaper than commercial brands) and I never saw a flea on her after that -actually the dog was mine before I became Muslim and I tried all the expensive treatments, so I was sold on aromatherapy/natural products after that.
May Allah cure your kids and give you patience (with all that combing and washing!). Yuck,I’m itchy now too!
Jan 04, 2008 @ 05:04:41
Yes, Huda and Aliyah gave great advice!
Jan 04, 2008 @ 15:28:02
Again Than you all for your help.
Holly, the maid has definitely earned her pay this month. I was a little resentful about her, but this is reason enough to try and be more grateful. She spent hours last night picking through me and the girls hair. I don’t know how I would have done it without her. I was very busy collecting all contaminated items, such as linen, towels, combs and brushes and washing them.
Huda and Aliyah, jazakallahu khayr! I told my dh that I had some comments from people of his persuasion confirm that white people do get lice. He said, “I hope you are not on there misquoting me. I never said that white people don’t get lice. I just said that where I am from it is unheard of and that the only reported case I have ever heard of was from a Mexican girl. Maybe it was a shame factor where I was from, because I have really only heard of this from people from the 3rd world.”
Well, he and I are the flipped side of the coin, because I have NEVER heard of a black person with lice. That is until LAST NIGHT!!!!! I will tell you one thing….those nitpicking combs are not for black hair! It was murder! I know my maid was thinking, “what kind of hair is this?” She kept asking me did I put the zayt zaytun (olive oil) in. I’m like yeah but I got super absorbent hair! I’m due for a relaxer touch-up soon and I am hoping that those chemicals will wipe out whatever remaining lice and nits I have. We suspect that my oldest daughter caught it from somebody and spread it to me and my other daughter. She had the most in her hair. Not to mention, random ppl are always combing her hair. I told her last night that i have told her over and over about sharing combs. She said in all seriousness, “Mommy, you need to beat us to make us hear and obey you.” She really wants to be a good girl, she hates being disobedient and will admonish herself when naughty.
Today, I will go through my husband’s beard and hair. He doesn’t think he has it, but neither did I.
I have come up with the ultimate full proof polygyny plan. I will inform all potential spouses that we are a very close ‘nit’ family….lol! We have a family bed and it is only fair that they be warned. I told my husband last night and he agreed! He was like, “Yes, because you know how much I love to cuddle and I don’t want to have to stop putting my head next to the children. You know how close we are and I really enjoy cuddling up with them.” The man was clearly traumatised at the thought that he would not be able to put his head next to them. However, not enough to take his pillow and sleep on the floor!
I know both girls still have it because they are still itching and as I further researched last night, I realised that my maid did not comb properly. The directions I had was that the hair should be parted and clipped away similar to when you are getting a haircut. She did not do it like that, she did not separate the hair. So I will go out, insha’Allah and purchase a bunch of hair clips and in a few days have her go through every-body’s hair again.
Unfortunately, I had to tell the girls not to tell their classmates. The kids here are cruel. They will not use that for information purposes but will use it against you. One girl had already told my daughter that she had bugs in her hair when she saw her scraching her head and warned all the other kids to stay away from her. I gave my daughters rules to follow, so not to infect others insha’Allah. I really don’t see an end to this now that I know how tedious it is. It seems like a never ending cycle.
Allahu Musta’aan.
Jan 06, 2008 @ 15:00:59
you can get locked into a seemingly never ending cycle with lice. I mayonaised my girls hair once a month in England where their were non-stop outbreaks of lice in kids of every conceivable racial background at my girls’ schools. They were the only ones to escape lice-free. I once found a few dead nits about 3 inches up the hair-shaft on my kid, but not a louse to be found, which meant they’d been there, camped out for a bit then found it inhospitable and left/died a few months previous. I’m not saying its all because of the mayo, we were blessed. My sister uses this for her kids too and swears by it:
step one: get a huge tub o’mayo, plastic wrap, comb to part hair, shower cap and an ugly towel
Step two: smother their heads from root to tip with extra big glops of mayo on the scalp…then rub rub rub.Those kids should have all-white heads when you’re done.
Step three:cover their heads up with plastic wrap so no air is under it to choke those little vermin to death. wrap the towel over it as the mayo will drip as it “melts”.
Step Four: let them sleep in it then rinse them out in the kitchen sink in the morning. They’ll smell “salady” for a day or two so I do it first night on the weekend.
I’m sure the same thing would go for an oil treatment will only oil and probably mayo’s success as a lice treatment comes from the oil.
Be careful of tea-tree oil as a lice-preventative. Although its effective, its strong on childrens senses and should be used judiciously.
You may need to bag up pillows and stuffed animals in garbage bags, tied up tight and away from your family, for a few weeks to kill of any lingerers if you find they come back.
P.S. I’ve heard of too many people using Raid and Pif-Paf on their kids heads here!!
I’m gonna check my kids heads now…
Jan 06, 2008 @ 16:02:39
Raid and Pif Paf? Only in Saudi! It’s interesting that you, Huda, and a few of my American friends here have all told me exactly what my Google searches deny. Most of my research has said, that you should concentrate on nitpicking, not treating or not worrying about the lice outside of the hair. They say many ppl spend too much unnecessary time cleaning combs, brushes, pillows, etc when it’s the nitpicking that really counts. I will take you guys advice for sure. It’s better to be safe than sorry!
Jan 09, 2008 @ 11:34:35
Assalaamu alaykum!
Wa iyakum. How’s the lice situation going Umm Adam? Insha’Allah khair. I was just reading a home remedies book (Best Choices From The People’s Pharmacy) and it said that it is medically endorsed that white vinegar loosens the ‘glue’ that holds the nits (eggs) onto the hair shaft. It does not kill the lice though.
“Wet hair and towel it partly dry. Pour the white vinegar all over the hair and let it set there awhile. That’s all.”
Worth a try anyway if nothing else is doing it.
Jan 10, 2008 @ 17:10:38
My daughters and I have had lice two years ago. At that time my kids’ hair was down and pass their bottoms. I used “not-nice-to-lice” stuff. It’s natural and it got rid of it all. You can use it even if you don’t have lice, just for prevention.
P.S.
I didn’t have to nitpick after, it simply dried them out.
Feb 13, 2008 @ 12:23:17
Assalaamu alaykum, ummadam, from a non-Muslim admirer of yours who just happens to have been trained in lice removal! What strange combination of mouse-clicks brought me to your blog I can’t remember. But yes, I worked for a major lice treatment company, briefly. They have contracts with schools throughout the country, and their combing technique is what really works. They also talk a lot of nonsense about how their shampoo kills lice; it doesn’t. The peppermint oil in it tingles and makes you think it’s working, but it’s the combing. I saw a little boy whose head was all bitten up from a bad infestation and the “clinician” tortured him with this peppermint shampoo–he was eleven,and sobbing like a baby. So don’t use peppermint shampoo, and don’t use the insecticidal shampoos—there have been terrible problems with them, the scalp absorbs chemicals easily, and children are so vulnerable. Just comb. Here’s how:
You need a strong light, pencil, (in my company we had special disposable sticks) cream rinse (Pantene is the right texture), baking soda, white paper towels, a spray bottle of water, a wide-tooth comb,and the lice comb. An all-steel comb that can be boiled is really good. And latex gloves, both to help grip the comb and for avoiding the ick factor. And hair clips.
The baking soda is the key–it lends grit, so the louse is gripped on the comb and removed. Otherwise, they can close their breathing apparatus for hours, and slip right through. They can run backwards, too! I almost admire them sometimes. Anyway.
Sit child in chair under light, with absorbing book or toy or DVD. This is going to take a while.
If you’re not sure if your child’s infested, take the pencil, part the child’s hair and look at the parting–the skin of the scalp, but also on the hairs about an inch up–the nits are laid at scalp level, but the hair grows out, you know! Make many parts and look for the little white lumps, could be greyish–depends on whether they’re empty or somebody’s home. The magnifying glass will tell you if it’s just dandruff or a nit–the egg case looks like a tiny chrysalis, set on an angle on the hair.
Look especially around the ears, nape of neck, crown of head and forehead. If you find a living louse, you won’t see him/her long–they’re fast. Don’t worry about it, you’ll get him later. If you find some nits, you don’t have to keep looking—now you know you have to comb.
Fold a half dozen or so paper towels to make a sort of “palette”. Spray them so they’re just damp. You will wipe your comb on this.
Squooosh lots and lots and lots of cream rinse onto your child’s head. Comb it through with the wide-tooth comb. Make sure there are no tangles. Some people like to mix the baking soda in with the cream rinse, I liked to just dip my comb in a bowl of baking soda before putting it into the hair. Some people like to section the hair,dividing the head in four sections, center part, and across the head ear to ear. Pin up the sections you’re not combing–only have the one you’re working on loose. Comb one section at a time, starting with a small layer at the bottom, then taking the next piece up and combing down through it and the original piece, and so on up through the section, so that the comb goes repeatedly through each layer of hair. It should make a subtle “whoosh, whoosh” sound (the sound of the proper ratio of baking soda to creme rinse, which requires experiment–all hair being different). The comb’s teeth go into the hair first pointing up from the underside and pulling out, then the layer of hair is dropped and the comb’s teeth go in pointing down and pulled out smoothly through all the layers. This creates redundancy, a good thing in lice combing. Every couple of strokes,a glob of creme rinse will accumulate on your comb. Wipe it off, hard, on the paper towels, and (this is the icky part)smoosh it around with your finger, looking for critters. Keep combing that section till there are none. Then pin it up and unpin the next one.
And so you continue, spraying water and adding creme rinse and baking soda as the hair dries out, so that you get smooth combing with a bit of resistance.
And after all the sections are done, you know what you do? Unpin them and comb the whole head! (The borders between the sections need to be combed)
You keep combing till there are no more lice, no more nits (hard to see in all that creme rinse, hence the magnifier)
And you know what else you do? Two weeks later, you do the WHOLE THING AGAIN! The louse’s life cycle is fifteen days. If a couple of eggs survive, you’re back to square one unless you recomb.
There are other methods, all sorts of oils and stuff, but this really, really, gets rid of them, without poison.
Lice can’t jump, incidentally, and they can’t live for more than a couple of days without a meal, so bagging things you can’t throw in the dryer for a week will kill them–you don’t have to sandblast your whole house.
They can be found on headrests in planes and buses etc., so even more reason to wear a headscarf! But when you get home,inspect it carefully, remember which side was in contact with the headrest, and carry some cloth to “veil” the headrests for your kids, even.
After working for these people I got thoroughly paranoid, though I’ve never had lice. And I didn’t stop itching until I quit. In fact, I’m beginning to itch right now….
So ends Mrs. Polly’s Lice Lecture! I hope you find it useful. Happy combing–it can be, it’s strangely hypnotic, and you end up having the most bizarre but wonderful conversations sometimes. Blessings.
Feb 14, 2008 @ 16:25:24
Tea tree oil shampoo and conditioner. Lice is very common in the UK my sister had them the most as she has thick curly dark hair my mum tried all the chemical treatments but then got scared because they contain organo-phosphates (which have been used by farmers to clean parasites from sheep; the same farmers later go onto develop parkinsons and other nervous system disorders). She read somewhere that using the tea-tree oil shampoo then absolutely slathering the hair in the tea tree oil conditioner and leaving it for at least 5 hours; really works. It kills the lice and they just come out dead sometimes in big clumps with their legs all mangled and stuff (ugh); with a bit of combing it also does something to the nits (eggs) themselves and means they can be combed out. You need to use a really fine specially designed comb; and do it for two weeks. It seems to deter them as well; with repeated use.
Apr 27, 2008 @ 03:37:01
Dear Mrs. Polly –
Thank you for the detailed procedures for removing lice/nits with the creme rinse and baking soda. Did it today on my daughter’s hair. When done – found only 2 nits remaining on the hair. Her hair was super soft too (like a deep conditioning treatment) I used your method of dipping the comb into a bowl of baking soda since I wasn’t sure how much soda to use. Thank You. I am so happy to have something that isn’t chemical that really gets rid of them!!
May 01, 2008 @ 14:03:33
Mrs. Polly, thank you so much for sharing this! I found the cream rinse to work excellent!
Jul 01, 2008 @ 18:12:03
f.y.i. everyone can get lice they dont discriminate and they dont jump they crawl.
Aug 14, 2008 @ 02:02:49
As salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh
Oh, reading all the posts had me laughing and remembering……..but at the time, it was no laughing matter. We once had a family staying with us. I think they had 6 or 7 children and I had 6. My baby at the time was about 4 months old and still nursing. One day, the oldest girl of the visitant family came to me and said, “My mother said to ask you if i have lies.” “Lies”, I said looking at her, trying to figure out what she was talking about. I just stood there looking at her and then, LIKE A FLASH AND ZOOM LENS, I saw these little white things in her head and I said “LICE!!!! LICE!!! Go back and tell your mother that yes, you do have lice.”
Ya Rabbi, I ran around the house like a chicken whose head had just been cut off. I inspected my oldest daughter, then oldest son, then middle daughter…. baqi 2, but I was tired so I sat down to nurse my baby. We had Arab cushions over by the window so I sat down there and was stroking her silky curly AA hair. It was a peaceful moment after the panic. I sat all the way back against the cushion behind me and in doing so, a trail of sunshine streaked across her head to reveal a silvery-white shiny glimmering NIT!!! Oh no! not my baby. I sat there and pulled out at least 7, but alhamdulillah, her hair was not thick so I could see them all and got rid of them.
Ok, that left Muhammed who was about 3 then. I pulled him close and he was looking up at me with innocent eyes that said, “I didn’t do it, mama.” Well, 2 seconds later, I found some nits, so I acted upon local advice and began to shave his head. I sat him up on the bathroom sink and soaped his head down good — stroke, stroke, stroke — 3 lines shaved, stroke, stroke and so on until I got to the last patch of hair…..Ya Rabbi, there it was……. a louse, first time I had ever seen one and it was ugly too, just like Huda said. It wasn’t fast or maybe it was that I was faster because I had him squeesed in a tissue in nano-seconds.
Then I checked my husband’s hear and beard and I could swear he was trembling as I checked his beard…..LOL.
Next, I pulled off every sheet and pillow case and comforter and washed them. But this was useless because even though I told the sister to get the meds and shampoo for her children from the pharmacy, 2-3-4 days later she had failed to do so, so I just asked my husband to get it for them. All her kids had it, and it seemed that they just got more active, sitting right up next to my children, laying on the Arab cushions, rubbing their heads all around……… what could I do?
Eventually we moved and the other family went their way. Maybe this was a month later. I was sitting in my kitchen and scratching my head something fierch, then at the university, scratching, scaratching. Finally, at home I asked Aisha (my maid) from Habasha to look in my hair. We went out on the balcony where the sunlight was good. Every time she found a nit, she went, tic, tic, tic, tic and then I’d feel her pulling the nit down the strand of hair and out. After about the 20th time, I said, “Aisha, katheer, katheer.” She said, “La, mush katheer”, and proceeded to pull another 20, I said again, “Aisha, so many.” She said, “Naw, not so many” – all this in Arabic.
I wanted to burn my hair. My husband got some medicinal shampoo that just stripped my hair and made me look like Angela Davis’s long lost twin Muslim sister. Ya Rabbi……..don’t remind me of the days of lies and lice!!! Alhamdulilah ala kulli haal.
Aug 14, 2008 @ 02:04:36
When I said the sister had 6-7 children and I had 6, I forgot to say Masha Allah.
Aug 14, 2008 @ 20:53:22
Wa alaykum Salaam zamzamiyyah,
Now you got me scratching my head!
Aug 16, 2008 @ 09:20:54
I just saw this Ummadam.
Our hair (black) tended to not get lice for 2 reasons.
1) it is naturally more dry
2) grease was used in our hair and it suffocates lice.
Before anyone shaves their kids head or buys the head lice treatment stuff…which can take up to 3-4 tries for some. Put some “hair grease” on their hair…it should suffocate the little boogers.
Aug 30, 2008 @ 08:39:48
my niec came to visit us and i got lice from her i have been itcying for 2 week until i realize i had lice.
i treated it with over the counter shampoo and cream and comb my hair with a thin comb, i was still very itchy so i reapted the combing after 2 days, after a week i did it again and still had a lot of them coming off i feel i can’t take it anymore, but my big worry is my kids i have 2 boy one 5 and one almost 3 they don’nt itch there heads and they played a lot with my niece she was vising from a nother country so she slept in my house ,and my older son sleeps in my bed,there hair is not short, i checked there hair brifly, my little one hate when i touch his hair, and i didn’t see anything,is it possible that they don’t have it????
Aug 30, 2008 @ 08:43:29
i am going to try some the suggestions on this page hope they will help me.
did anyone heard about licekiller?????
Sep 01, 2008 @ 04:17:23
I’d try some good old hair grease and see what happens. If I can find the link to the site I will post it here for you Kaorro.
Jan 07, 2009 @ 02:35:00
i am about to go crazy. I have two mixed daughters(with long hair), myself, my husband(who is african american), his cousin, her boyfriend, and my father all in the house, oh, and my son(who is mixed). I have strongly considered using a perm to do a full on time treatment. I figure the perm will kill the living ones and break up the “cement” from the nits or eggs. I have been searching to see if this works, if anyone has tried it and i have not seen anyone even mention it. Please if anyone has tried this, let me know.
-Near Desperate
Feb 26, 2009 @ 09:09:33
ASA,
Your daughters could have lice. I have a friend who has very kinky hair, an African American. She has two daughters who contacted head lice repeatedly because they were exposed to an ENVIRONMENT where it was a COMMON occurrence. she did not believe it was an issue, having never experienced it herself growing up in her neighborhood and schools. They sometimes cannot be seen easily. Please check and double check. They probably need to be treated. If you have an infestation, a lot of work needs to be done an sanitizing your environment even to the extent of throwing away hair utensils and bedding.
Oct 16, 2009 @ 17:56:16
sorry to say it, but I think they may have lice too. And like Zakiyyah said, African American hair is definately NOT immune to lice at all. Be sure to wash all bedding in hot water, and get a metal comb and nitpick them out. use conditioner to make is silky. http://www.licetokill.com is what worked for us. Be careful, cause the stuff at the stores like Nix and Rid have poisons in them, that may cause cancers in children, so we prefer natural solutions instead…
We had the same issue years ago, and it was not fun…sorry you are going through it too. Hang in there, it will be over soon!
Scott
Jul 11, 2011 @ 12:43:29
The blog post that inspired my Saudi Hair Lice Treatment and Removal Business! If you are in Saudi Arabia and struggling with lice or know someone who is, visit us at http://www.thecootiecatchers.com
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