Head Lice AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
OK, so my 14 year old son came home from a lil piggie friends house and had head lice! We did not know until ALL the freakin kids had it!
By then of course, as most of you know I am a clean freak and so had you drove into my driveway, you'd have seen piles of clothes, stuffed animals, bedding, pillows and, yup, even matress' on my lawn!!
I blew a cork and turned my whole house into a war zone!
Bombed the house, washed everything in HOT HOT water, dried it in a HOT HOT dryer, put all the stuffed animals into garbage bags and left them out in the back yard on the trampoline to bake in the sun for certain death!!
Sprayed all the bedding and carpets with lice spray and all the furniture! vacuumed everything in sight, shampooed the furniture, bedding and carpets, and used the poison shampoo on everyone! Wheeew....all done!
Then I did it all again the following weekend just to be thorough!!
2 days later, the lil bastards were back, in full force on every one of the kids heads again!
So we did it all again for a 3rd weekend in a row, then I got smart! I looked it up on line and found out that if you treat for head lice with parathins (poison) shampoo 2 times and they are not all dieing, they are immune to the poison!
Found a new and all natural way to kill the little bastards and no need for a 2nd treatment, I can attest to this because it has been 2 weeks and there is not a lice one in my home or on my kids!
Saturate the head and hair in mayonnaise, wrap the saturated head with saran wrap and let set for 2 hours!! Then rinse with white distilled vinegar, and shampoo the crap out of the head!
Thats it, the only other thing the CDC said was to freeze the linens and pillows, after 2 hours in the freezer, nothing is alive!! A lice cannot live of of a body for more than 5 hours, so I scooped the kids up, rented them some movies, and quarantined them to the living room for 6 hours, while they were soaking in their mayo, I froze all their bedding and pillows and they were not allowed in their rooms for 8 full hours! The lice have to feed within 10 minutes of hatching or they will die, the only lice that can jump are crabs so we were safe with this one bout!!
I wanted to share this with everyone, I spent nearly $200 in crappy shampoo's that ultimately made us sick with poison and did not work at all! Then with the natural treatment I spent about $10. to treat 7 people and I have enough left to do it 10 more times if I need too!!
Happy bug killing!!!
Mommy