Head Lice, Dead Lice

Here's a tip I just got from Jennifer that I'm praying I never have to use! Thanks Jennifer!

"WARNING, This will leave your scratching your head.

I hate to admit it, but recently we had some unwelcomed visitors, hair visitors. My oldest came to me and told me her head itched, so I check and saw nothing. We’ve had lice once before and I knew where to look, behind the ears, the top of the head, and the nap of the neck. Two days later I found them. Yes them, there was a whole city in there, AT THE FRONT of her hair.

It was one hour before church and my husband ran to Wal-Mart to get some shampoo and I took the other two to church. When I got home, he was nitpicking (way to go honey). He had to go to a meeting so I took over and 8 hours, yes a full 8 hours later I finished. Her hair is to BLOOMIN’ thick. Thankfully no one else had it, but that didn’t stop me from bagging up all the pillows, blankets, stuffed animals, etc in the house for a few months (usually a few weeks is fine, but I had to make sure).

I could tell the shampoo wasn’t going to cut it as I was pulling live ones out that I swear were hatching as I pulled. The last time we got it I found a book in the Salt Lake County Library system (best library system EVER) called "Head Lice, Dead Lice" it is a fascinating book about lice. It suggested a olive oil treatment that can also be done to get rid of lice since the shampoo’s often don’t work alone. Well, I couldn’t find the book but I did find this similar (if not the same) olive oil schedule online. http://www.mindspring.com/~options3@mindspring.com/lice.pdf
It is messy so I used old sheets and towels. I washed everyone’s linen EVERYDAY. My washer ran non stop for 1 week. I nit-picked every day. After three days, I never saw anything again but followed the olive oil treatments until the end. Because I did the shampoo too, I only did olive oil on days 2, 3, , 17, 21 with days 1 and 9 lice shampoo.
It’s one of those things you really don’t care to learn about UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU. It may be a LITTLE bit overboard, but it's worked for me twice so why cut corners? Since school just got out, you may want to check."