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Hello my friends
i have'nt be online for a while beceause i changed my isp and get my web cut for 2 weeks and until saturday i live at a friends house and i can't acces internet there since there is a problem with his connection. i'm at home today to take some clothes and other stuff so i can acces internet.
anyway i have a HUDGE problem , i have head lices , i don't know if it's the right word but that's what google translate gave me.
so to remove them i had to use a very harsh product and now my hair are very dry...
i'm so sad to see my hair to be in a so bad shape.
if any of you have ever had experienced this problem , could you give me some tips to remove the lice eggs from my hair and to make my hair in a better shape ?
Cya all
Ugh, the problems of our TEEN years, Angel (forgive me if you're older than that, but body lice, head lice, lice-lice, everyone gets 'em sooner or later, and I've had my share!) . . . the lifespan of these varmints is a month to a month and a half. BUT! In that time they can bare thousands of eggs, which can live from a week to ten days. Then they develop and they need a host.
There is an EXCELLENT pharmaceutical shampoo to rid yourself of these beasts. Any drug store chain will carry it. It's called A-200 Pyrinate. Comes in a box in a glass bottle and a teensy comb. My naturopathic all-natural friends, on the other hand, depend on an oil made from pennyroyal, available at health food stores and vitamin shoppes. It's your call, Angel. Pick the treatment you prefer.
Jus' remember, too, that all clothing and bedlothes, headwear and upholstery (!) have to be fumigated to make sure that the "infestation" doesn't re-occur.
Good luck! I'm sure you'll be able to obliterate their population, once and for all.
A guy who has been around the block and back,
Quenyan
Based on what I remember from the same ordeal that my nieces went through many years ago (there was a large outbreak in their grammar school up in Oregon in the late '90s), you just have to follow as strictly as possible the medical advise given to rid yourself of those nasty things, --- and then AFTERWARD (after all danger of the lice is definitely gone), then return to your more normal hair care routine.
The good news is: I know my nieces did not have to cut their hair (sometimes you'll hear advise suggesting you do this), so just reassure yourself that you don't have to, either.
Hope this helps.
- Ken
Go through all the procedures on the bottle of whatever stuff you get. And after that, go through your hair regularly with your fingers and pull out anything that remains. Do this weekly for however long it takes. It may take a few months.
You may not be able to feel the eggs and critters at first, but in time you will be able to.
The one thing the bottle does not admit to you is that the stuff does not work on 100% of the critters. Well, it doesn't.
Been there, done that.
Bill
Hi Angel,
Sorry to hear this. Also, a lice comb with very fine teeth should available in France as well. Supposedly, the comb helps remove the lice eggs.
The lice shampoo is basically like a pesticide in shampoo form, so be sure to rinse it very well when you use it, if you do. Certain parts of the body below the belt are more apt to soak up harsh chemicals than others.
Good luck with ridding yourself of these beasts.
MB
Use Tea Tree Oil To Foil Head Lice
Use Tea Tree Oil To Foil Head Lice
Hope this helps Angel.
getting head lice. My best friend and his daughter had them, and I would visit regularly. We would sit on the couch and watch TV. They never bothered me. I can hike with this same friend through tick infested brush and not get a single tick on me. At first this was puzzling to me, then I figured out why. I eat lots of raw garlic to boost my somewhat weak immune system. Bugs with the exception of mosquitoes shun garlic.
Also AFAIK, lice like very clean oil free hair. I don't wash mine until it gets very oily.
Scott
Thats intersting Scott, just the other evening I went for a cycle round the local hills and found 3 ticks feeding on me when I showered.
Note to self - up the garlic intake!!
Thanks and regards Dave
A louse only cares about one thing - the diameter of your hair strands. He has little hooks on his legs that enable him to hold onto your hair. If your infected friend has finer or coarser hair, you are not apt to get his lice because they can't hold on to you.
People talk about head lice, pubic lice, and yeah, I've even gotten armpit lice. But a louse will go anywhere the hair shaft diameter suits him. I've found them in my chest hair and even found one once on my leg just above my knee. And I've heard of people getting them in their eyelashes even!
Knowing that lice are picky about hair shaft diameter can help you know where to look for them and where not, in case you get infected. If your beard is very coarse and your mane is very fine, you aren't apt to find them in both places.
Lice can come and go in spurts. Who knows why - it must be the luck of the draw. I last has them about ten years ago so I've been free of them a long time. The last crop I had liked being in my mane, but only around its edges - right above the neckline and behind the ears. I never found a one higher up. The hair shaft diameter must change.
Absalom, you've said before that your mane is very fine, so that is probably why you haven't gotten lice at times you thought you might. Either that, or the poor things die from exhaustion before they can crawl all the way up that long mane to your scalp!
Bill
That is interesting, my friend's hair is a bit finer than mine, on the average. One thing to remember here is that I have hair that is extremely varied in diameter, colour, and texture. I have coarse, medium, and fine hair. I have never met anyone in my entire life with hair as varied as mine.
Prior to eating 3 or 4 cloves per day of raw garlic in my diet, I did get lice in my eyelashes and pubes at the same time. That was when I was 22 years old. The texture of hair in both places was very different, but the diameter must have been about the same.
That is hilarious, my heart bleeds for them.
I still think the raw garlic is a factor in keeping the little critters off of me. Remember, ticks avoid me too. Now if I could find an herb that repels mosquitoes, that would be great.
Scott
There is some truth to this, from what I recall the beasties home in on body heat which makes hair near the scalp the most desirable. Hair that is pretty long is not going to be as attractive and also oily hair as mentioned already- oil makes it harder to glue their eggs on. Both these things certainly worked in my favor as I regularly was exposed to lice while teaching and never got them.
Elizabeth
I am sorry to read the bad news. Many students get lice regularly when in school and now that I am starting to get longer hair than I've had before, I worry that I may be more prone to lice getting a hold of me. While the remedy works, as Axel attests it is harsh on the hair. Are there any proven methods of preventing infection in the first place? (I've heard tea tree oil can do thatm but my nephew developed a sensitivity and rash from a small amount (a few drops) added to his shampoo. Any other ideas?
As far as I am aware Shawn the lice can only 'walk' from hair to hair, so as long as you don't sit too close and touch hair you could be ok. But then again this could be an old wives tale!
Cheers ~ Dave
I've been lucky to never get plagued by them, Perhaps they don't like my superfine hair strands. But I digress. Since they tend to live near your scalp, and since you will probably have to repeat the process, because one treatment doesn't rid you of all the little pests; try extra conditioning.
Before you shampoo with the medicated stuff, try coating your hair strands working from the ends up. The conditioner will protect the hair from the harsh effects of the shampoo. Condition again afterwords. On another board, they call this method CWC, for condition-wash-condition. And follow through with a leave-in treatment or hair oil applied to your still damp hair.
Hope you can rid yourself of the nasty little critters, and as Quenyan stated, be sure to wash linens (hot water) and possibly fumigate furniture and carpeting as well.
Carol
My wife has extreamly long and thick hair. we battled this for two ywars one, with reoccurring infestations. The final solution was first to kill the livening bugs.That took a shampoo. there are many decent ones for this. they say they kill the eggs but this was not the case.It usually took 2 or 3 bottles to do her hair effectively.then of course the nit comb. twice a day every day for two weeks. which is the gestation period. another shampoo and more combing.The thing that finally did the trick was BLOW DRYING!! The heat is enough to kill the new hatched and most of the eggs. After two years of crap two weeks of daily blow drying worked well To simplify it. Shampoo with a treatment repeat after two weeks and blow dry wet hair twice a day during the two weeks.The damage done from blow drying was acceptable in comparison to cutting off her hair and it with the treatment worked.
Hey Angel
For what it is worth only as I have never had Lice in my head.
1. For a number of years within a school system in town I was hired to do a variety of musical tasks. (Grades 1-4.)
2. Kids would come in and be checked by the secretary or sent to her if a teacher was suspicious. If the child had lice they had to be removed from the school right away.
3. One time I drove 2 kids (both boys) to a clinic that specialized in eliminating lice and this is what I was told as of 7 years ago:
A. Lice usually ONLY effect young boys, but will go after girls and women forever. (The men somehow become a turn-off to the critters to prey on in almost ALL cases.) After age 12.
B. The "normal" treatment was no longer working as the lice could survive it, so a new formula (at that time) was on the market and had to be used 2 times to rid one of the problem which apparently it did. Before going back to school in a couple of days, the children HAD to return to this clinic and be checked to make sure they were free of lice and eggs which the clinic telephoned the school and gave the ok on.)
c. I would be inclined if I were you to go to such a clinic if available and have these tormenting beasts eliminated as soon as possible. If there is no clinic..........see a dr. and wipe it out in a couple of days.
One thing however. Do you know for sure that what you have are lice? Just wondering as you mentioned reading up about them on the internet. It might be the best idea of all at this point to have a professional take a look at whatever the problem is since what you have been trying to do yourself has not worked.
Good luck to you in getting rid of these pests and saving the quality of your hair. (Whatever was used 7 years ago did NOT look as if anyone had had anything happen to their hair in the slighest.)
Justin~
Angel, soaking your hair in a strong vinegar solution like half water, half vinegar for about three minutes should get those eggs to slide right out. The acid will strip your hair of other deposits coating the hair shafts and that will leave it feeling softer. Do rinse the vinegar out well though.
Elizabeth