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Written by Franklyn D. Garland
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Page 4 of 4 Luckily for me I had purchased two de-lousing kits and the second kit contained this stuff call "nit removing gel." My wife and I decided to apply this as the seven day follow-up, use the gel that came with it and only use the lindane if the lice came back again. The second treatment went fine, we repeated the TV and combing process and this time used the odd smelling gel rather than the hair oil. The gel did not appear to work any better, really, and after another three hours of combing we were cross-eyed from trying to find the nits. We decided we were finished and some ten hours total of combing (destroying?) our daughters hair we were all louse free. I spent about $150 in over the counter and prescription de-lousing materials. Spent a week staring at my daughters head looking for bugs and the sad part is that if I had known then what I know now it would have been so much easier… - American head lice are becoming "super ninja lice" and are rapidly growing resistant to the routine pesticides used in the U.S.A.
You do not need to use any of these pesticides to de-louse someone's hair. - Metal lice combs, hair oil or conditioner, some sort of magnifying glasses and some patience are all that is required. Figure on a couple of hours, minimum, to de-louse your kid. Wash the hair, saturate it with the oil or conditioner and leave it in, then start combing.
- Concentrate on the hair line above the ears and at the back of the neck. Rinse the comb in hot water after each pass and monitor the egg harvest. Change the hot water as needed. Be gentle, be patient and be thorough. If you miss any of the eggs, the lice will be back…
Lastly, if you have a boy instead of a girl, skip all of this and buzz cut his hair. Problem solved.
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