I was babysitting a child a couple of days ago, and found out yesterday that her sister brought home a bad case of lice from her daycare. The little girl I was babysitting has them, too. I have been checked THOROUGHLY and don't have them. I vacuumed EVERYTHING and scrubbed and washed and threw stuff out, and put all the cloth stuff, including toys, into sealed plastic bags in the freezer... so all that is taken care of.
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Anything that can be put in the washing machine and washed in warm/hot water is fine. They make sprays that are just for killing lice. I've never had any problems using those products. It sounds like you have done a thorough job cleaning. Just be sure to spray and vacuum all seating areas, vehicles, and bedding--any area that they have played.
Stay calm about it...lice happens...the big job unfortunatley is cleaning up after it.
It sounds like you have things under control! You don't need to have things in the freezer. 2 weeks in the sealed plastic bags is enough. A lot of people forget to clean the carseat or seats in the car. You might mention this to the mother of the children.
I would (as a preventitive measure) get a bottle of RID & mix some into a mister bottle to keep handy "just in case" the clorox isn't enough.
Rid is a pesticide, not a shampoo. Using as a preventative is ill advised.
My twin granddaughters got lice from another child at daycare. We washed all their toys in hot soapy water with bleach and put them in the sun to dry. We washed their stuffed animals in hot soapy water and put them in the dryer.
I would ask my doctor about using Rid so often. It sounds scary to me!
You can buy a spray from RID, or the generic equivelant. It is designed for spraying on mattresses and such, but it can also be used for stuffed toys and it's pretty effective.
The clorox should have done it. I will comment on the RID and suggest that the one reader not use it so often as there are very harsh chemicals in it. We chose to go the chemical free route when our daughter had lice and of the kinds available, the NitFree brand worked for us and they have an amazing nit comb that we keep handy and use as our tester tool when the inevitable head lice letter comes home from school.
I have never seen this brand in stores although there are other chemical free alternatives there and they have a Mint Spray that works as a repellent so instead of using a lice shampoo on your child's head every week, I would go with that instead.
If anyone is interested, here is the website in Canada (http://www.nitfree.ca) and that should lead to a US site as well.
I cannot stress it enough, there are some very powerful (and potentially harmful) chemicals in many of the lice shampoos. Use them with caution or find a chemical free alternative that works.
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Lice free spray sold at many places works great for small children. You spray until scalp is soaked than use nit comb to remove bugs and nits and let dry.
Per www.headlice.org, "Once laid, it takes 7-10 days for a nit to hatch. Nits off the head may not even hatch at all as they are laid close to scalp because they need human warmth to incubate. A nit hatching off of a head results in tiny nymph head louse which, without an accessible/nearby human, is doomed because it requires an immediate blood meal.
Adult head lice off of their human hosts will generally not survive for more than 24 hours." You might leave them outside for a week, and that'd do it. Best of luck! :o)
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