more lice

KT has been under attack from lice again.

I picked out two big ones that I just saw crawling on her hair while she lay in bed.

Head and ears and neck were covered in bites.

I did a lice treatment on Sunday and left it on for 1 hour instead of the minimum 30 minutes.

I covered every single bit of her scalp, every single strand of hair, not one was missed and put extra in the spots she said were itchy.

when I washed it off in the bath I also conditioned her hair with conditioner that had tea tree oil added.

I then dried her hair with the hairdryer on hot and I didn't just dry the hair I dried each portion of hair right down to the scalp.

I guess I was maybe looking for lice?

One big one had fallen out into the bathwater but I hadn't seen any others and was certain there had to be more.

She was wearing a white shirt as I dried her and I suddenly noticed a couple of very dead black lice had landed on her shirt.

I also found two lice stuck on her scalp "feeding" I presume, and I pulled them out by hand. They were alive and waving their legs at me. I put them in a solution of water and tea tree oil and they were motionless in minutes.

As soon as I removed them Kt said that she had been particularly itchy there.

I think I got about 8 adult ones in total by doing things this way.

It relies on you actually looking with your eyes and getting them while they are stunned from the lice treatment (or perhaps the heat of the hairdryer).

When you do lice combing, the hair is wet with conditioner and you can' see anything, you just have to comb through every section and see what you pick up.

I kind of like the idea of being able to hone in on them and nab them! Gotcha.

More hunting satisfaction I guess.

Will have to do a lice combing today or tomorrow to catch any eggs and any small lice that have hatched in the last few days.

Really thought I had eradicated them last fortnight but there was one day when I forgot to put tea tree oil and lavendar in Kt's hair ... wonder if a whole lot jumped onto her then.