Best lice treatment kits according to redditors

First, so sorry for this misery! Ack, I remember it all too well! I did a butt-ton of research when my kids got lice and found a non-pesticide treatment that worked. It took time and patience, but it was worth it. It's called LiceMD and basically it's just silicone. It makes the hair super slick so they have created difficulty holding on, an it plugs their butthole; the nasty things breath through their butts! And can hold their breath for up to 10 hours. :/

So, here's what we did: apply silicone. Use nit comb to comb through. Between each stroke dip the comb into a drinking glass filled with water and a couple of drops of dish soap. You'll see the little buggers come off of the comb and float, but the soap and silicone combo stops them crawling out. Dry comb with paper towel. Take another stroke. Dip. Wipe. Repeat.

I used this time to have them read to each other or work on homework.
Then I'd put a little more silicone on and let them sleep in a soft beanie cap. You can make your own by cutting the sleeves off of an adult tshirt and tying the cut end into a know. A little stretching and you can pile the hair up under there while the sleep. Wake a half hour earlier, drag the lice comb through the hair really quick and toss the kid in the shower. Fast hair wash removes the critters killed by over night suffocation.

Cheap. Annoying, but painless.

http://www.amazon.com/LiceMD-Lice-Treatment-4-Ounce-Bottle/dp/B0010Y5EV0/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Oh, and here is a HYSTERICAL article. Must read!

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/a_fine_whine/2006/12/im_a_lousy_mom.html

Skip the pesticides and go with a dimethicone treatment. It’s non-toxic, doesn’t contribute to pesticide resistance, and is very effective.

this treats AND prevents:
http://www.amazon.com/Babo-Botanicals-Essential-Prevention-Ounce/dp/B0097EEEQ6/ref=sr_1_19?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1371229025&sr=1-19

For now, feel free to treat it as if it is lice. Get a nit-picking comb and learn how to use it via a video like this.

You also might choose to use a medicated lice treatment. The medicated treatment alone is NOT enough. It usually kills the adult lice, but any remaining nits (eggs) who survive and don't also get removed can hatch. Once they hatch, they can reproduce. So the medicated treatment can be good to get most of the adults, so they stop reproducing (or get seriously slowed down), but you'll need to continue picking out the nits for a while. Its very difficult to ensure that you've gotten them all at once, because they are so tiny. That's why you have to check daily for about a week and do the nit combing, and then when you don't see any for a day or two, start checking every other day, then every few days, then every few weeks.

If you're also looking for preventative treatment - two pronged approach. First, lice love CLEAN hair. They do not like dirty hair. So don't think of this as a cleanliness problem. Its not. If you're washing your daughter's hair every day, I'd stop. 2-3x per week is more than enough. That doesn't mean you can't get her hair wet, because I understand kids get crap in their hair that needs to be washed out, but limit the shampoo usage. Second, tea tree oil. Lice don't like it. Dilute it in a spray with water, or in the shampoo.

Dimethicone works well. It's the active ingredient in LiceMD. They use a 4% solution, as do the studies that support its effectiveness. The inactive ingredient is another silicone. Dimethicone can be purchased as a cosmetic ingredient. This is a very frugal solution to the lice problem, particularly if you can find a cheap silicone for the other 96 percent of the solution. An ordinary four ounce bottle of LiceMD costs about $10. Since it's 4% dimethicone, that works out to $62.50 per ounce of the active ingredient. On the other hand, you can get pure dimeithicone for about $6.50 per pound, which is closer to $.40 per ounce. Even if you can't find a cheaper inactive ingredient to use, this price makes it much cheaper than LiceMD or any other store-bought solution.

Just got over this with 2 of 4 kids, we used Rid and about 6+ hours of combing per child. We ALMOST went the haircut route, if it was my son, instead of my two oldest daughters I would have just cur his hair. That is a bit more dramatic for girls though. Even so, if they have REALLY long hair, youll want to go shoulder length if they/you can stand it.

Follow the directions and Rid works very well. www.amazon.com/RID-Complete-Lice-Elimination-Item/dp/B0045XF6AM/

After treatment, we locked all their sheets, pillows and stuffed animals they normally have on their beds away for 2 months and did shampoos once a week for 4 weeks afterwords just to be safe.

The eggs can wait to hatch for 10 to 20 days, so you have to get them all or starve them or both.

I faced the same problem for my beautiful 6 year old daughter. Once the schools re-opened there came complaint of lice on her head.

The over-the-counter lice treatment medicines I used were of no good and they also called rashes on her sensitive scalp. Then I came across a natural head lice treatment oil on Amazon website. Apply it for 20 minutes and rinse it. A rough combing with nit comb was required after that. All the dead lice were to be seen on her pink towel and nits stuck in comb were seen. The best part is the nits, remained in hair, never hatched. They were washed off with subsequent hair washes.

Please see link to purchase LiceNil - an amazing lice removal product.

https://www.amazon.com/Lice-Nil-Lice-Eggs-Eliminator-Ounce/dp/B00OXZGQRE