All sheets n blankets n pillows need a hot wash…any teddy bears need to be thrown out…its good if u could steam clean your furniture… and use tea tree oil… once you’ve cleaned their hair out …
Spray raid on hair and wrap with a towel after 30 minutes . Comb out with tiny tooth comb
Wash hair and use small comb again… repeat as needed
Wash everybody’s head in kerosene strip allbeds wash sheets in bleach and hot water
And wash all your bed clothing in hot water
I heard flat iron will kill them, they can’t tolerate high heat. Not sure how true it is.
Apple cider vinegar. Leave it on the scalp and hair for 20 to 30 minutes. Kills the nits.
We use rubbing alcohol on for about 30 mins then rinse out and comb hair
Pour coke over there heads and leave for ten minutes comb with lice comb and wallah… Its amazing.
Believe it or not, listerine mouth wash. Has to have alcohol in it. Put on head and put grocery bag over and let sit up to 2 hours
Cut the boys hair off… cut girls hair shorter
Add tea tree oil to your shampoo and conditioner. Trust me on this
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Neem oil. Stinks really bad. But is natural and works great
You have to do the shampoo and the lice comb but also you have to go through and pick them out. The comb is good but still misses a lot. I’ve always has to do my girls hair strand by strand it seemed. And was everything. Buy the lice spray for things you can wash like the couches. Good luck I know what a pain it is to get rid of.
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Remember to treat your vehicle and car seats
Mayonnaise over night, tea towl on head , they will all drop out when you wash it out in the morning
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Lice clinic of America has a bunch of locations
A pediatrician once told me to wash everyone with dog shampoo. It’s cheap and effective. Also throw everything that’s stuffed into black trash bags and put them out on the heat for the whole day. Wash blankets etc in hot water and vacuum rooms and furniture. 
Lice shampoo works and comb them out
You can use vegetable oil. Soak hair and comb out lice…plastic wrap head after and leave on overnight while spray down everything with lice spray…bedding,stuffed animals,carpet,couches and chairs,etc.
I also took everything clothes, sheets, blankets, and put the dryer on high heat. For 20 mins
Treat as you have done, use hair spray on there hair for 5 days. Retreat! Pic the nits out after each treatment. Vacuum all furniture and carpets daily for 5 days. Wash all bed linens in toys clothes in really hot water. I took everything to laundry mat just to get it all done. Spray mattresses with spray, couch’s after vacuumed and vacuum and spray your car. Things you don’t need right away like coats jackets, toys they don’t play with every day bag in black bag two weeks sealed up.
I feel for you but in the process of raising 4 girls all with super long hair this was the trick I learned. I never got it. The only thing I could think of was because of hair spray. After I started spraying their hair with it daily they never got it agsin
Jennifer Delaney with this I would also look into the shampoo that kills it too. Instead of using your day to day shampoo you use the lice shampoo. Once every other day till they are gone.
My daughter caught it at the beginning of the year from her cousin. (She always has lice) this years monsters are harder to kill and get rid of. You need to be aggressive with it. But I do agree this comb helps!!.
Also wash everything you can in hot water. Gather everything into trash bags and do one bag at a time. For beds, pillows, couches chairs stuff animals and barbie doll hair, there is a spray you can get for things that can’t go into the wash. I would also shave the head of the boys (and girls if they want ) it will help a lot too.
After you treat and comb use a flat iron on their hair and wash everything you can treat others you can’t and place in the dryer like cushions and pillows
Metho+beer
It works
Then lots of cheap conditioner and comb the lice out
Do it every second day and wash wash wash all the bedding new hair brushes ect
You’ve got this cos you’ll all look silly with shaved heads 
Shampoo then thick layer of conditioner don’t was conditioner out then comb comb comb everyday
Tea tree oil and hair conditioner.
just keep combing everyday
Hair stylist here- all stuff animals must be placed in trash bags for two weeks- all blankets, sheets and pillow cases must be washed. They have furniture spray- spray all beds, couches/chairs and the seats/head rests in your vehicles. Treat each person with lice shampoo- and all nits must be removed- get rid of old combs/brushes. one week later- repeat all steps- this is very important- bc the shampoo only kills the bugs- any nits missed will hatch and you watch to kill them with the 2nd round of lice shampoo before they are old enough to lay eggs
Listerine kills immediately
My kids ended up getting lice in the middle of the pandemic (like June 2020), when they had been out of school for months, and hadn’t been around anyone at all. So no clue how they got it.
I used all the tips, tricks, over the counter stuff available to me (sprays, powders, shampoos, etc). Nothing worked. Ended up finding a Lice Clinics of America close-ish to me (about 45 mins away) and got their treatments done. 99.9% guarantee or free re-treatment. They didn’t accept Medicaid but gave a discount for Medicaid recipients, and it came out to $99/person. But they literally got them all gone in the one treatment, as promised. Only thing you do at home is wash/dry all bedding and fabric things that fit into the washing machine (stuffed animals, etc), vacuum all furniture and carpeting and cars seats plus boosters/carseats, and either toss all hairbrushes OR freeze them for 24 hours. Easy. No sprays or chemicals necessary, they don’t work anyways the way lice have adapted to the ingredients.
Costs more, but to me it was worth every penny. I spent more trying the tips/tricks and OTC treatments than if I’d just went straight to the clinic.
You have to go through everyone’s head every day and pick out the nits/eggs wash linen daily plus vacuum. It’s a pain in the ass but only way to get rid of them
Mayonnaise either over night or for a good while, wash it out and blow dry.
Vinger all over the head let sit for 20 mins rinse out put treatment in (condiontioner works too if you don’t have treatment) and comb xxx
Offt yeah lice are a bitch, I had it as a child super bad, like my nan put tar through my hair and it still did nothing. Only thing thay got rid of them was shaving both mine and my mums hair off. I was 7 and everyone thought I was a boy because of it 
I had this same issue when my niece and nephew came into my care. I wish i could say theres a quick fix solution but sadly there isnt. Took us a few weeks before we were on top of it. I combed all 4 kids daily (morning and night) which meant basically lived off takeaways cause that would be my whole evening once i fonished work. We also used the knit sprays, oils, washes. It was frantic and one of the most disusting things I’ve ever haf to deal with. Made it very clear there was NO hugging whatsoever for anyone, no sharing hats etc etc. Stripping of beds every day or so. Nits take 7 days to go from eggs to hatching eggs of their own so I had no choice but to check hair daily and then once we got to days where we wouldnt find anything I would check every 2nd day and eventually got down to checking weekly etc. The girls hair i had in plaits and put teetrea oil in their hair throughout the day. Good luck.
My kids used to be the same. We use head and shoulders eucalyptus shampoo in their hairs every night and since we started they have been lice free. But If we go a night or 2 without it then we need to treat them again with headlice treatment
Baby oil put loads on and comb through the lice and eggs can’t stick xxx
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Treat and comb and repeat. Comb EVERY SINGLE DAY. Treat as the bottle says.
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Cooking oil and vinegar soak hair and put plastic bag over head to keep heat in. Leave for a few hours. Comb and wash and comb again
It may not be the most conventional way but hair dye kills lice and their eggs. Just get hair dye as close to their natural color as possible and it kills them instantly. It’s the easiest way to get rid of them
Get this stuff it works the best , its a bit pricey bit if you can get it i suggest you do so its called NYDA
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I heard tee tree oil
Nitty gritty head comb…you will never look back! My daughter has very long hair & got them last year. It was absolutly pain staking. Hours & hours going through it, using every lotion & potion available! Then I found that comb & they where gone in a cpl of days!! Good luck but definitly get 1 of them, nothing is close to it.
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Clean the home. Bedding, pillows, sofas ect while treating the hair. And treat again and again by picking nits until no more appear
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Honestly, it’s so worth it to go to a Lice Removal Center if there’s one near you. They go in and basically suck them all out and give you a medication/shampoo for after to make sure they’re all gone and we never saw them again. My daughter brought them home from daycare while we were still co-sleeping and my mom and I got them 
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When my kids were young and there was a head lice outbreak I used hair conditioner put it on dry hair very thick leave for about nearly half an hour or longer then with one of those very fine tooth combs just combing and combing the hair, conditioner suffocated the lice and they die probably have to do it a couple of days just once a day it worked with my kids make sure they have clean bedding on there beds after they have had first treatment as could have eggs in there beds on linen
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My niece had it many years ago. Her mom did not have any luck with store products. She did have success with saturating her hair with olive oil and a shower cap. The little buggers/eggs need to suffocate then washed out. I think it was overnight. Might have to Google it.
It can be expensive to wash everything at once, or dry. Putting things in black garbage bags outside in heat for a couple days will kill, such as bedding, stuffed animals. Bug bomb the house, electric nit comb helps, because every egg is a menace. Blow drying seems to discourage, from many years working in schools.
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Vamoose. Shave the boys. It will cut a lot of the work out. A nit comb. Every egg has got to go. Repeat vamoose. Follow the instructions. Bug bomb ur home. Play outside for 4 hours. And repeat. Bag up big stuffed animals. And run everything through the dryer. Wash all bedding. Dont forget about car. One repeat always worked for us. But u have to make sure u r picking out every single egg. All of em. Then TADA. And u can use conditioner with vamoose. Also safe while pregnant to use. Youve got this. It is a lot of work but it works. And is well worth it to know u have no more worries
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Lice shampoo, nit combing everyday, wash all soft things and run through dryer, quarantine stuffed animals in plastic bags, find lice spray for carpet, mattresses, furniture, car. Might have to do the deep clean a couple times. And comb for nits. That’s most important
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OLIVE OIL! Basically, soak your scalp in olive oil and wrap your head. Wait an hour or so, and then go through the hair with a fine tooth comb…it’s not just a cliche… do it…and if the nits, which are the eggs, don’t just slide off each hair, we always pulled out the hair and burnt it. Keep your hair oiled for awhile…you can shampoo it out whenever you want, but keep going through the hair until you don’t find any lice or nits. Nits are like a tiny piece of rice. And if you think that this just sounds like way too much work, know that the chemicals that are used to kill the lice…they become immune to…and the infestation can continue with your hair all burned up. Olive oil is good for your scalp and your hair!
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Shave the boys, cut the girls. Since there are so many if u mayo will suffocate them. Be sure to pull out all the nits and eggs. And be sure to wash everything, sheets, blankets, pillows, stuffed animals, everything that is washable.
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Dye their hair…just use the same color they have but the chemical will kill them and they won’t be back
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Don’t believe anyone who tells you nits don’t live off the head. They Do. Clean everything sofas chairs beds pillows blankets soft toys carpets the lot. And keep it up.
Comb & comb & comb and continue combing. Best comb I found had double row of prngs, little sods got stuck in it and couldn’t jump away. Ran an old knife with a tissue though the center, took some time, then Picked out all the eggs . Some good ideas to try on here, all the best…
And once free of them keep a regular schedule of combing and nit searches, with a dose of tea tree or something similar to try keep the little sods away…
Did early childhood in home day care for a few years, had some come through with lice. Try to keep it fun for them, they feel uncomfortable as it is
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My daughter has hair down to her waist and got it twice a couple years ago. I tried the nix and comb but that did nothing. So I did mayo over night, took tweezers to get each egg i could out, washed her hair, and then blow dried focused towards her scalp where the eggs would be since heat kills the eggs. I then went through her hair with tweezers and blow drying for the eggs for a week.
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Comb hair thoroughly - don’t miss anything!! Sheets and towels i hot water. Spray everything that can’t be washed.
Check hair daily - look for nits in hair behind ears and at back of head. Wash hair with lice shampoo and comb again. Just keep checking.
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Use dog shampoo the green kind it kills the eggs too and wash everything
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Licefreee, run everything that can be run through the drier on high heat, spray down the mattresses and furniture with a lice killing spray, and vacuum every day.
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My boy and girl got lice once, I ran out of Alberto balsam tea tree shampoo and conditioner and they came home from school with them 
. One conditioner treatment, conditioner on dry hair and comb with not comb, I left it on over night and recombed the next morning and then washed it out. I’ve washed their hair in the stuff ever since, once a week, and they’ve not got them again. It’s £1 a bottle so cheap too.
Coconut oil with a few drops of tea tree oil. Put it all over their hair and tie a plastic bag or use a plastic shower cap. Leave on overnight then use a lice comb and comb it out until you see none. Wash hair and repeat in five days. Walmart sells a shampoo with tea tree oil in it to keep lice away. My daughter got it from school and had super long hair. This worked.
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Soaks hair with Gold Listerine leave a shower cap on overnight and the nits and lice will fall right out.
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Mayonnaise!!! Any brand…cheapest is fine…shampoo hair, rinse, then lather with mayo… Leave on for at least 10mins…(overnight if possible)…rinse off and then condition hair (as the mayo will make your hair feel knotty and gross)…
Everytime I get a newsletter home from my kids schools about nits going around, we all get the mayo treatment… Works wonders!! Our household have been nit free for about 8+ years now… I swear by it…
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For the girls with long hair get a hair straightening iron and use it on their hair. Small parts at a time and pull it thru very slowly. The heat will kill the lice and eggs. Just keep doing this 3 or more times a day. The boys shave their heads.
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Anything that will smother them will work. Mayo, baby oil, cooking oil etc left in the hair overnight then all clothing and bedding need to be washed and dried on highest heat setting also vaccume carpets and spray down all furniture with live spray. It’s a long a hard process but you’ll get there
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“Slice” prescription is the only thing that worked when my girls had it years ago. It’s a prescription shampoo, just had to call the pediatrician and they called in a bottle per child. After shampooing you have to comb each head with a lice comb and get out all nits and bugs. The shampoo kills them all instantly and they just comb out super easy. Wash all bedding in super hot water. Bag all stuffed animals in a trash bag for a couple weeks. Vacuum all furniture and mattresses. It’s a nightmare honestly but it all has to be done to get rid of them completely! Good luck!
You might have to get a prescription from a doctor. Everybody will need to be treated.
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Hair dye! My sisters family caught it from another family and the only thing she found was hair dye for the girls. The boys cut their hair down as far as they could with out being bald.
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Mayo/miracle whip hair masks and pickle juice/vinegar spray in the hair after washed. It doesn’t smell all that great, but for whatever reason, I used to get head lice as a child often and this is what seemed to always work. 
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You could try tea tree oil to kill and prevent,(make your own preventive and spray furniture:)) dog metal flee comb(looks similar the metal one from the lice killer box:)) replace your conditioner with" tea tree oil conditioner " brush through while showering a couple times a week until clear
Lavender helps soothe too
Wash everything and clean the hair really good. Remove them all. You will need to set off bug bombs in your house. They take about 4hrs. Then to keep the lice away use tea tree oil shampoo. You can also spray the hair with a sea breeze and water mixture. Lice hate it. Good luck!
Olive oil with a few drops of tea tree oil, leave on over night then use a nit comb,it is going to take a while but go through the hair bit by bit.make sure u wash all bedding then when u have finally got rid of them use a few drops of tea tree oil in the rinse when u wash hair to keep them away
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My daughter was forever getting them at school and I used to do her hair every day for months one day I rubbed a wet wipes on to her scalp and the nuts stuck to the wet wipe it sounds strange but it worked
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Shampoo with tea tree oil prevents lice. Follow the recommendations for treating bedding, stuffed animals, carpets etc and don’t forget to treat coats and your car. Follow the recommendations for treating and killing the lice and eggs in the hair. Then use a shampoo with tea tree oil for prevention
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You just have to sit and pick out the nits. If my girls get it it takes me about a week to get through all of their hair… you have to wash and dry all pillows and covers vacuum all rugs. Put all of the stuffed animals in a bag raid has a really good spray to spray the furniture, beds and stuffed animals. Good luck
Make your hair as greasy as possible. And leave it that way. Use oils. Lice can’t hold onto the strands of hair if it’s oily. Then you have to go thru your hair and get all the nits out. It took me nearly 8 hours one time when I did my daughter. Wash all bedding. Vacuum everything, mattress and all around the bed. Including furniture. All stuffed animals put in dryer or trash bags in the sun. I melted my daughter’s babies faces on total accident cuz they got blacked bagged. Lol it took nearly 3 months and every product I could try to get rid of it. Dirty hair was the only way. I left her hair greasy for about 3 days.
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Tea tree shampoo and conditioner. Absolutely slather their hair in conditioner and comb through with a nit comb. I find the long handled flea combs for cats work well. Do it every day, its a pain in the bum, but this was the only way I got on top of ours. Once you have rinsed it out, rub a few drops of tea tree oil through their hair and leave to dry. Good luck 
Treat, treat, treat. Put all stuff animals and pillows in a bag spray with alcohol and seal for a week. Wash all bed clothes in hot water & treat carpets and bed (they sell spray). You have to treat every 3-5 days & comb hair. FYI love do not like tea tree oils. So use tea tree around neck and ears.
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Coat the hair in oil (baby oil, olive oil, vegetable oil, doesnt matter.) Cover the hair with a plastic bag or Plastic wrap and let it soak for 2-3 hours. Wash the hair with dish soap, then vinegar, then dish soap again and then shampoo. The dish soap cuts the grease from the oil. Then pick the knits. It may take hours but it’s the best thing since you don’t have to put nasty chemicals on the head. I am a trained head lice remover through the health unit in my area and did this to help families just like yourself. Please message me if you have questions.
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Went through this. Wash and dry all bedding, stuffed animals, pillows. Vacume chairs.
Each kid one at a time wash hair with 5 or 6 drops of tea tree oil in shampoo and let it sit for a min. Rinse hair with vinegar, it sucks but trust me it works. Do it every 5 day a few times.
Walmart used to have a lice comb that would zap them to use after hair is dry.
Worked for us every time.
First buzz cut the boys and cut the girls .they will all thank you. Second. Dawn dish soap , apply to dry hair leave a plastic bag tied on for 20 minutes ( longer if they let you) comb out with lice comb rinse w water . If they are really still bad soak in mayonnaise and use dawn to wash it out. Repeat as needed it’s time consuming and messy button harmful
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I use a nitty gritty on my children’s hair I Use tea tree shampoo and conditioner I leave the conditioner in and I go threw it and the tea tree oil after going threw it as the strong smell kills them and change there pillow cases too as the eggs are on the pillow cases xx
A hair straightener helps also… after treatment to kill anything left behind and makes combing the nits out easier.
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Honestly the only sure thing to get rid of them is combing often. Wet hair down and apply oil to help loosen the “glue” on the nits and just comb. I had to cut almost 8 inches off because it was so hard to comb my own hair but that’s honestly the only way we got rid of it. We did so many different chemicals, home remedies absf I got fed up and just focused on combing ever other day, if not every day and we got rid of them.
Ask your pediatrician for Quell best medicine to kill lice and scabies I am 51 that’s what we used and I used it on my daughter’s now 29&32
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shaved the boys heads and cut the girls hair as short as you can , spray your beds and furniture down with lives spray and sack up all toys blankets ,stuff toys in large trash bags for about a week also do your carpets it’s a lot of work but if done right it will work in a week redo all the heads again God Bless you and good luck with
VERY IMPORTANT !!! Treat all your furniture too as well as bagging up into black trash bags any toy or stuffed animal that has hair or fur for a minimum of 2 weeks!
Olive oil put it on dry hair … Put a shower cap on. Leave it on for 2 to 3 hours…rinse… Repeat every other day. Make sure to use a different shower cap each time. U will see results. Also get rid of pillows. Don’t even try to heat them up in dryer …please buy new pillows after u get rid of the lice
I had an absolute nightmare with me and my kids when they got them and the damn things just would not die, no matter how much I combed or treated thier hair!
Then I got this stuff from “lice clinics of America” (I’m in the UK) and I swear it worked the best I’ve ever seen. Nothings come back either!!
Some advice for the combing I got was to buy a cat comb. They are so much easier to use than the nit combs I found!
I have used mayo with amazing success! And then a nit comb. It takes forever with the girls but we would watch a movie and just take our time. But you have to do it every 4 or 5 days for a couple of weeks because if there sre any nits left they will hatch so you have to kill them as they hatch before the lay any more eggs. Trust me you will get a handle on it, just takes time. And it takes lots of shampoo to get the mayo out but works the best!!! Good luck!!
I taught school and had to check for head lice every Monday morning. You have to treat the hair and you have to get all the nits off of each hair that has them. Put all the stuffed toys in a garbage bag and leave them there for a month and clean the bedding and spray the mattress with this spray, you can get at the drug store. If you don’t clean they will just keep coming back. It is a lot of work!
Ive found with my children, our boy we never confditioned our girl we did. Our boy cane home with them once, we shaved him and treadted with hedrin. Shampooed and conditioned religiously after, no problems since.
My daughter had long hair and got head lice like 4 times,its common in schools the lice stuff I bought like 10 never worked so I bought white gasoline found in camping section in stores and used it and the lice died off as I rinsed her hair,she then shampooed her hair to get rid of smell,I tried everything and thats all that worked she never got them again
Spray olive oil on their heads wrap in plastic wrap. Wait an hour then brush them out. You’ll have to wash their hair twice then use a blow dryer. Also putting tea tree oil in your shampoo can and conditioner
In addition to doing the full treatment, you have to sanitize all the furniture, bedding and bag up any toys that are plush. Get the spray for the upholstery, wash all your blankets and sheets in super hot water and high heat on the dryer. When you do the lice treatment, afterwards you have to use the combs to go through their hair and get out all of the eggs. Check their hair again every few days, repeat the treatment again, depending on what you use, the instructions on the medicine will tell you how soon you can do it again. Keep it up until you see no more. vacuum daily and for the girls, have them dry their hair every day with hot hair setting on the hair dryer. Just a heads up, this is going to be super expensive!
I used white vinegar in my then 2 year old hair 
she stunk for days but it worked
Exelpet flea treatment (flea treatment for dogs) put 2 drops in the hair & they just disappear. We struggled to get rid of them for a long time & tried everything but nothing worked. Our gp told us to use this & it worked and noone in the house has had them since
Move.
Seriously. My 2 daughters had back in the day. They kept getting it. My son husband, and myself did not. It was a pain. We moved away (for work) and that was the end of it. I’m thinking it was in their school