Comments on: Afrobella Asks You — Hair Help for Little Dreads

By: tt

tt — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:43:41 +0000

if this was a girl no one would say cut all HER hair off. Listen to what you’re saying when u speak. I’m sure the vinegar..tree oil..grease and nit picking will work.

By: valerie

valerie — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:07:01 +0000

NO NO DON’T HIS CUT HAIR I know when it comes to Lice my mother used to us any kind OF grease over load the head with the grease give it a chance to work wash hair then repeat it again for about a week it works

By: Seroled

Seroled — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:43:26 +0000

You must cut his hair immediately as you don’t want him being sent home by the school and being blamed for the whole school being infected! how embarrasing that would be for his self esteem!!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:49:16 +0000

Poor little guy.

Cut it off & start over. Life is about change. At the end of the day, it’s just hair.

–Nicole

By: njeri

njeri — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:43:11 +0000

VINEGAR! my friend had really long hair like a lot of her girl classmates when she was young and there used to be epidemics (apparently…). She says her mother used to wash her hair in vinegar (i think almost any acidic one would work…) for a few days. Lice don’t like it.

By: kw

kw — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:08:52 +0000

my daughter came home with lice the second month of kindergarten. I did the shampoos and nit-picking (ugh). another parent suggested hot combing and that definitely helped kill everything and made it easier to pick out all the leftover nits. I also trimmed about 2 – 3 inches off of her very thick, curly hair.

-good luck

By: pets

pets — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:14:23 +0000

Bella

Check either http://www.RidLice.com or http://www.fairytaleshaircare.com the latter is natural hair products for children. Or visit http://www.webmd.com

By: Gillian

Gillian — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:24:05 +0000

Look up HairClean 123 – that’s the US name. I went from Trinidad to France and although in my 40s had never seen a louse! Well almost everyone in France that we knew had lice. We tried all the natural stuff – as did my sister.
Anyhow in the end the hair product listed above was amazing and you don’t even really have to comb through. All of us got rid of our lice with just 1 soalking – including long afro son, long natural daughter and my long curly hair. It’s an amazing product compared to everything else.
G

By: msscmoore

msscmoore — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:28:36 +0000

Thank you all for the ideas. Here’s my plan of action. We’re going to the beach…we live in Florida. I pick his hair every 3 days. This is when the eggs I didn’t get hatch. Afterwards, I oil his hair with the neem, tea tree, and peppermint oil with a shea oil base. Now it’ just time to pick and wait.

I’ll keep you all updated.

THANKS FOR ALL THE ADVICE, FROM ME AND SAVION.

By: nyp

nyp — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:37:18 +0000

the only thing that will kill lice and the eggs is a thorough soaking with specific essential oil AND combing the hair to ensure no nits are left. this means cutting his locks. if you don’t you will dealing with months long process of delousing your son and your household. unfortunately, locks are the perfect environment for nits the take root and stay for a really long time. good luck