How To Get Rid of Head Lice

My two daughters were, for a while, plagued with head lice and no matter how often I treat the problem they simply returned a month later after contact with an affected child in school. It seemed an endless task, applying lotion, letting it dry overnight sometimes, and combing the lice out. Since then I have checked my girls' hair every month and for the last two years have found no more lice.

Here is what we do in our house to prevent them coming back, it is a bit time consuming but worth the effort: Once you have used a lotion and followed the instructions to get rid of any lice, go out and buy a large bottle of conditioner, any brand will do. Wash your child's hair and towel dry. Apply conditioner to damp hair but do not rinse out immediately. Instead, using your head lice comb, section the hair and comb the conditioner through thoroughly. This will break any eggs that may be attached and will also coat each hair strand with conditioner making the hair slippery and preventing lice form attaching themselves. Once you have combed the hair thoroughly, rinse the conditioner out and leave to dry.

This may seem like a simple treatment but it is effective. I took this advice from a friend, and did this once per week for four weeks with great success. Now we do it once per month, simply for prevention purposes, and have not found any lice or eggs.

I hope this advice is of some help to you. I can sympathise with those who are struggling with this problem so I hope that this will work as effectively for you as it has for me.

You can find more information about head lice and the lotion I used with succss here.