Listerine Kills Head Lice Treatment
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Head Lice Treatment
OMG My Kid Has Head Lice!! What do I do?
Well after 3 children and spending hundreds of dollars at a time on the traditional drug store lice treatments, I here to tell you how to save money, time, and your sanity.
My youngest is now 5 years old and in day care. She has long, beautiful, thick brown hair, that daddy won't let us cut. When she first caught head lice I wanted to cry! What a nightmare this is, the cost, the time spent picking and combing through hair, just the whole ordeal. So daddy went to the drug store and bought them out of lice treatment products. We treated everyone in the house, all 6 of us. Did all the laundry, bedding etc. Bagged all the soft plush toys, vacuumed, moped, and scrubbed. Hours upon hours were spent picking through every one's head. Just to find in a weeks time she still had live lice in her hair. I did cry this time!
I got out the laptop and searched the Internet for other methods of treatment. Something that would work effectively and inexpensively. With all my research I found that the traditional store bought pesticide methods, just won't work anymore, the lice have built an immunity to them. But why shouldn't they, its the same product being used for more than 20 years. What I did find is hundreds of Moms recommending the use of Listerine for lice treatment. I thought OK, what have we got to lose, $4.00.
I ran out to the store bought a large bottle of regular Listerine, a couple of shower caps and followed the instructions of these moms to the tee. Guess what it worked fantastically. That was over a year ago.
Today I got a call from the daycare, the nightmare begins again. I went to the store purchased a large bottle of Listerine and a package of shower caps. Total cost of this treatment $7.00 and this will do all 6 people in the house (just in case).
Here is what to do; soak the hair with regular Listerine, cover head with a shower cap for 2 hours. After the 2 hours wash hair and use your lice comb to comb through the hair all eggs must be removed or your child will not be allowed back in school. A secret to nit and egg removal, vinegar, its weakens the sticky natural glue on the eggs and most eggs and nits will come out with greater ease.
I know now that after all this talk about head lice, your probably scratching your head, not to worry its most likely the power of suggestion. But Listerine your self to be safe...
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Shoot JannyC I started scratching reading your comment. LOL thanks for stopping by and for the stumble!!
OMG mod2vint - I sooo feel your pain. Just wish I knew about the Listerine solution years ago. I too cried (many times) before I finally got rid of those little buggers. Took a total of 6 months! Am definitely remembering this tip for (god forbid) future use. Kudos!
Wow, what an unusual use for Listerine!Thanks for sharing this mod2vint!
Although I don't have head lice problems with my kids (they're all grown up now), this is one good info to keep in mind and share.
Great hub!
I have lice tooo
I swear by this treatment LISTERINE! I've spent so much money on nit treatments, my daughter has very thick curly hair and it's a nightmare to comb through. Every time I treat it, I do the retreatment and there they all are again, numerous eggs and crawlies again and again! AND some one in her class has to be having a nice little family cos I'm so onto this all the time....... So resorted to listerine tonight, I combed through immediately after spraying the listerine in and OMG you should've seen the eggs I was removing! Goodluck everyone, but I highly recommend listerine over nit treatments
Spray once a week with listerine mist on towel dried hair, do not rinse. This will keep them from returning. The smell will go away once hair is dry.
I now swear ny Listerine. Even though my 6 yr old was the only one with it, I treated everybody, including myself, I mean, what's 2 hours sitting with listering on your head with a shower cap? Kills bugs dead! I will note that our hair DOES smell like Listerine for about a week. Small price to pay for licelessness!
I too spent all the money on the rid trust me when I say IT DOES NOT WORK!!! I after two months inthe summer battling them and many times crying from frustration..... used lysterine and vinegar on hair and Lysol on everything else..... was so happy to find no more lice!!!! I work in a school and always suggest this to parents as an option to save money.
First used commercial treatment and found live lice the next morning. With no prior reading, I decided to try Listerine because I had some on hand. It worked very well, and I was able to comb out lots of nits and DEAD lice. (I didn't use vinegar, and it still worked fine.) After getting some advice, I used tea tree oil overnight and combed out again. This time, no lice or nits, so the original Listerine must have done the trick. I'll still retreat with both in a week's time, to be sure.
What a job to have to undertake. As long as our children are young and in school its a job we may have to undertake several times. But it is hard to believe the manufacture of these commercial products are able to sell a product that does not work. The saddest part some of us keep buying them.
I have long, very thick wavy hair which is also a little brittle - my daughter brought home nits from school, we all got them, and I found that the metal nit comb almost destroyed my hair. We were spending $40 a week on chemist treatments, but they didn't even kill all the adult nits.
I spent over $60 at the health store buying a combination of exotic oils guaranteed to kill the little blighters - it didn't work effectively plus left our hair super oily even after double shampooing :(
Further internet research led me to try Listerine on my own hair - and bingo, two hours of Listerine, shampooed out in the shower and followed with regular condition, I didn't use the fine comb but never had another itch!
What I do when my girls pick up nits at school is to pour some regular Listerine into a little sauce bottle with the long, fine nozzle tip. Then get them to hold a facecloth over their eyes and tip their heads right back while I part the hair with the nozzle of the bottle and squeeze in the Listerine. Saturate the hair, squeeze to remove extra liquid, pop on a showercap and - I find this important - wrap an absorbent (eg towelling) head band around below the shower cap at forehead (it can go over the back of the cap) to keep the Listerine from running down into their eyes. They can play inside for a couple of hours before shampooing it out.
Today I found out I had lice. I thought I did a little while back too but pushed it aside as just an itchy dry scalp. Nope. Today in class I found not one, but TWO lice in my hair and pulled them out. Not sure if they were dead or alive. When I got home, my mother check my hair and we're pretty sure we found nits. Now my mom's rushing off to the store to buy me listerine, vinegar, and a lice comb. This should be fun...
Figured out one week ago that my daughter had head lice. Went to the store and bought Nix and used as directed. She was still itching her head and was miserable. Found this site and advice and it worked like a charm. After the two hours with Listerine and a plastic bag on her hair, I washed it with Extra Strength Denorex, then used Suave Coconut conditioner. Seemed like I combed out hundreds of dead lice. By this time, I was itchy, too, so gave myself the same treatment. Thanks for the advice!
WornOutMom, your most welcome! Have your ever seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding? Listerine is my Windex, I swear by it.
I have really long thick hair. I got lice about 3 months ago. I've treated it about 6 times with RID and it still hasn't gone way. I assumed it was because of how much hair I have, but according to my bio class freshman year, due to natural selection all living species (including lice) eventually grow immune to certain diseases, poisons, and toxins. Head lice as a species must have become immune to the store-bought products.
I'm just read this article, and we're trying listerine and vinegar tonight!
Ive tried Rid twice this week on my daughter, the second time after washing it out, ALL of the lice I combed out were still alive. (Cue Heebie Jeebies) And now my fiance and I have them as well. Just went to the store and bought listerine, tea tree oil shampoo and coconut conditioner, starting up the washing machine again. Sigh. Wish me luck!
EChabe, the Listerine will work great for you. Don't forget that using vinegar will help loosen the nits and make them much easier to remove from the hair. Sorry you even have to deal with this. I have 3 kids and wish I knew about this treatment when my oldest was little. Best of luck to you!!
absolutely brilliant....spent $50 dollars on NIX and it did nothing......bought 1lt of listerine original for $6 and put it my daughters hair and covered with a small plastic bag....2hrs later all lice were dead, thanks to all who suggested this....now for the vinegar.
My daugter I found out had lice today and I bought the rid and I have it too , I was still itchy , read this website and just put the listerine on my head and her's , immediately felt so much better , gonna leave it on for 2 hrs , then put tea tree oil in my shampoo and then condition , let's see what happens ? Wish us luck !!!
what kind of vinegar do you use and how exactly do you apply it x my children are all sat with listerine applied to their hair as we speak..thanks
Hi Linda, I used reular white vinegar. You can spray or pour it on. I prefer to pour it on to make sure it gets all over, let it sit a few minutes and they get ouy the comb. Makes this process so much eaiser!
Have to say the first day of daycare my 2 year old grandaughter came home with head lice. She has very thick long hair down to the lower part of her back. I was so worried we were going to have to cut her beautiful hair. We bought the Rid shampoo and thought we had gotten everything out and sent her back to school. She was checked and sent back home.. This went on for ever it seemed and she was sent home 3 times.. Finally the director of the daycare told us to use Vasaline in her hair. She said it will be really greasy but it works. It smothers the bugs and the eggs can't stick to the hair due to the hair being so greasy. We did her hair with the Vasaline and put it in a shower cap the first night. It takes a few weeks for the Vasaline to work itself out of the hair after washings. We kept her hair in a long French Braid which looked so nice on her. Well I have to say it worked. The lice comb went through her hair easily as long as you took small strainds. We combed her hair out every morning and evening. So Vasaline does work. Its a messy way of getting rid of those pesky lice who just don't want to disappear and go away. Don't cut your childs beautiful hair.. Try this instead it really works.
My family just found out one of my brother's classmates has lice, and now they are trying this treatment on him. I just hope I don't have to do it! I know it's harmless, but I REALLY don't want listerine in my hair. Sigh.....
But does your hair drop when using listerine ?
Confused, what do you mean drop? From my experience with it your hair feels great, soft, smells good, my daughters hair feels awesome after treatment. I swear by the stuff, Did you ever see My Big Fat Greek Wedding? Well, Listerine is my Windex!
JannyC 2 years ago
Yes I did start scratching my head Lol. Awesome hub though. It is very true organisim and critters are starting to adapt to our treatment. Which really is kind of logical cause you want to survive so you adapt.Kind of foolish on the scientists part if they thought the same thing can work forever. No they may be small but they are not dumb. To Think though something so common and cheaper can do them in I think they knew this but wanted us to buy the expensive chemical stuf. Ok sorry for my rant. Great hub!! Stumbling this for my fellow moms.