I seem to be cursed by the damn things - we have had them on and off since Josh's gf brought them to us when she visited in August so I have obviously not got rid off them so I am now on a mission
We spent a massive evening looking for nits in everyones hair The big boys seem fine and J is too (he never gets them with his very short hair). I then did the conditioner / tea tree treatment in mine and Rémy's hair and found quite a lot (again ) in Rémy's and a few in mine. I then spent the rest of the evening after dinner and got him to bed doing more research on the whole nit thing. I think what has happened is that when I thought I'd got rid of them when we got to Oz (it had been going on for a while and I'd not been good enough at coming back on the right day etc so I really got stuck in when we got there and got rid of them) is that I must have missed 1 or 2 (he is so hard to comb) and thought we were good as he stopped itching etc as apparently it takes a month to get to the point where there are enough of them to be irritating so I think that is what has happened. There is a really good blog by a professional nit eradicator (yes you can go and pay for someone else to do it for you ) and she (and other things I read) absolutely say you just have to suck it up and get a really good metal comb - see I didnt' realise that I thought the plastic ones were better. I have ordered a metal one on line but I think I'm going to try to find one in the shops as well so I can get on top of this for once and for all asap!
I anyone else has this issue come up this is the blog I found very helpful:
http://thenicelicelady.blogspot.fr/
One of the interesting things that she says is not to waste your energy trying to wash everything in the house - they can't live off your head for long at all. I think this will help me as I have piles of washing due to changing sheets every time I have been treating him this week (did a spray a few days ago with a tea tree blend - based on what I found last night didnt' work as well as I'd thought it did) so this will make a huge difference not to have to do that (I'll probably still change his pillow case every time but not everything).
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