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Subject: HELP Author: Christie [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 19:46:13 08/24/09 Mon Author Host/IP: cpe-24-160-111-37.tampabay.res.rr.com/24.160.111.37 Not sewing related, but you ladies are so helpful so I thought I would try. My daughter has lice ughh! We just did a pageant & found it today. I'm not sure if it is from a child at the pageant, school, or plane. I'm not sure if I can treat her wiglet without messing it up. Does anyone know how I can do this? Thanks:) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Lice Author: Betty [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:29:10 08/25/09 Tue Author Host/IP: cpe-67-242-20-249.twcny.res.rr.com/67.242.20.249 I would not ever treat the wiglet with lice treatment. If it does have lice in it, which I truly dont think that it does, you can boil it in water if it is real hair. If it is not natural real hair then you will be fine. Lice do not live off the hair they live off the blood in the scalp. I would put the wiglet in an air tight container for a week or two without opening or using the wiglet and they will not live without the air or blood to feed off. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: I had this problem repeatedly with my daughter when she was young! Author: Cindy lou (lil-queeny) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:02:53 08/25/09 Tue Author Host/IP: ip68-99-42-95.no.no.cox.net/68.99.42.95 Seems there was a little girl in her class who's Mom didn't really care and she came home with it every few weeks for the whole school year. First thing you should definately want to do is inform the school nurse. She will start inspecting the kids and hopefully irradicate it from the school. If that's where it emminated from. And the poison that is used in lice shampoo is very damaging to the hair, not to mention outrageously expensive when you have to treat the whole house and family! The school nurse told me the best and safest way to treat lice is to give a mayonaise conditioner to her hair once a week. The mayo super conditions the hair and kills the adult lice by smothering them. You still have to pick the nits out though. Try it, it will save you money and hassle. HTH! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Thanks everyone Author: Christie [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:18:05 08/25/09 Tue Author Host/IP: cpe-24-160-111-37.tampabay.res.rr.com/24.160.111.37 Thanks for all the great tips everyone! Glad I'm not alone. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Lice Author: Lisa [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:27:17 08/25/09 Tue Author Host/IP: 74-32-219-34.dr01.lhcy.az.frontiernet.net/74.32.219.34 When my daughter was young...my daughter had lice three or 4 times in one school year. The school she attended had about a 1/2 semester of a Lice issue. Her hair was done to her tailbone. We were told besides using the lice shampoo (and very important picking out the nits)on her personally. Was to launder everything that could be including linens/pillows etc. What couldn't be wet, she suggested (including stuffed animals) to put into a hot dryer. What couldn't be laundered, shampooed or heat dryed...Put in a tight plastic bag or bin, for two weeks. Even though the lice need blood to survive they can live for a little while in hats, headrests, linens, combs, stuffed animals. I believe they also have a lice spray...which is what I used on the stuffed animals before placing into a plastic bag. If the wiglet can't be washed or dried, definetly put into a plastic container as suggested earlier for a couple weeks. (If for someone reason the lice were able to lay eggs in the wiglet), pick out with your hand gently as to not harm the hair on the wiglet, and maybe do a warm rinse with water after being stored) You wouldnt want a stylist finding any dead lice or eggs. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]