If you have lice, read this, it can help.

I just saw a thread which lice have been reported.
Thread: Super-strains of lice spread to 25 states: Are they in yours?

A few years back, an article helped alot of folks. I will share 100 percent of that article here, as I am the author of that article.


How To Get Rid of Lice NOW!

I had a friend whose son was going to head start school. One day, the school nurse called her to pick up her son from school. The nurse told her the reason why. When she did an inspection of the students, several of them had lice, and my friends’ son was one of them. The nurse gave my friend a small slip of paper that listed lice removal products that could be purchased over the counter. The nurse also mentioned that how my friends’ son got the lice was from the winter coats the students wore that hung on the rack with all the other coats together. The nurse noticed the fur collar on another students coat had a lot of lice still on it. Lice do travel.

After using one of the products on the list, the boy was treated easily, and the lice never came back. One main reason why the lice did not return is because he had very short hair. The eggs are usually glued to the hair shaft starting from about a quarter of an inch and longer. All my friend knew at that time was the problem with lice was a unfortunate one-time thing. Later, she realized the ease of removing lice did not apply to people with much longer hair. When her daughter came home with lice, that is when the nightmare began, not once, but repeatedly over a period of about a year.

She had spent literally hundreds of dollars on every lice removing product she could get. Even her daughters doctor prescribed medications to try. She washed ALL bedding, clothes in closet, cleaned floors, etc. to no avail. She was exhausted standing countless hours hand combing nits out of her daughters very long, thick, hair. For about a year, this process became so overwhelming, that she decided to cut her daughters hair as short as possible, but, before they were to go, she wanted to see if there was ANYTHING else out there that she had not tried yet.

In her research, she discovered that she was not the only one having the very same problem of lice returning repeatedly. There were posts out on the internet from folks who were angry, overwhelmed and at their wits end. Not knowing what else to do, she called me, and opened up about her dilemma. I told her to try vinegar. I used vinegar for so many things, and vinegar may cut the adhesive that the louse uses to attach the egg to the hair.

After listening to my suggestions, she decided to give it one last try, and if that didn’t work, then off to the salon they would have to go. The next morning, she laid her daughter on the kitchen table with cushions for her daughters’ comfort. At the end of the table, she placed a stool with a large metal mixing bowl on top of it. Set within reach two lice combs (she had PLENTY from the previously purchased kits), and had a good sized plastic tumbler cup (for pouring the vinegar). She took a gallon of vinegar and poured about two cups into the large metal bowl, and then added about one cup of water.

When ready, she had her daughter scoot her head to the very edge of the table with a rolled towel under her neck for comfort. Then, she began pouring cups of the vinegar solution onto her daughters’ hair. She kept doing this for about 20 minutes continuously. Then, she began dipping a lice comb into the vinegar mixture, and combed her daughters’ hair. She was beginning to see many eggs accumulating in the bottom of the bowl. Though most people are disgusted even at the thought of lice, when she was done combing and saw the UNBELIEVABLE number of eggs in the bottom of that bowl, she was embarrassed. I told her that seeing all those eggs meant results, and she wanted to jump for joy. The approximate total time she stood there rinsing and then combing as her daughter lay on the table, was 45 minutes. After she towel dried the hair, leaving the hair still damp, she invested about thirty minutes more to do another thorough comb-through.

A couple things that a person would need to use care on, is to avoid getting the vinegar on the edges of the face. Her daughters’ temples were slightly red because the vinegar irritated the skin. Also, when a person has lice, they will have the tendency to scratch the bites, and when the vinegar gets on those surfaces (small sores), there will be a sting, but only momentarily.

I was glad to be there to witness the great results the vinegar idea brought. In my honest opinion, this method by far worked wonders. Many folks have discovered the hard and expensive way that those lice removal companies made huge bucks off of them. The main reason why lice kept coming back was because the glue that attaches the nits to the hair was not removed, and then later, the nits hatched and the life-cycle process began over and over again. All it takes is just a few eggs that were not removed, and with enough time, there would be lice again as if from out of nowhere.

I would like to point out that lice can happen to anyone, and it does not matter if you are rich, poor, clean or dirty. To any parasite such as lice, a host is a host, no matter how young or old the person may be. Even a pet can get lice from somewhere, and after it lays in your bed or furniture, you can discover lice after awhile. So, rather than look down upon someone who has lice, it would be better to realize what trouble that person has to go through, especially if their previous attempts to remove lice failed. Be compassionate, and share the information of what vinegar has done for some folks, and you will feel good knowing that someone with lice can finally live normal again.

All I can say is that I am so happy that my friend didn’t give up in the fight against lice. I just wish she told me about her dilemma much sooner. It is nothing to be ashamed of, as lice can happen to anyone. By the way, it has been about three years since she used the vinegar treatment, and her daughter has not showed up with any lice since. Amen to that (and of course, vinegar).