[laterales]

I have friends who are foster parents. Most children come to them with lice. The two girls she just got have very thick hair.

Once she got a good look at their hair, she was horrified at the intense infestation that they had both had. Plus, their mom did not, or was not able to comb out the dead lice and the nits.

When she put crème rinse in and started combing it, she found that it is sort of distributing pieces of dead things all throughout their hair and the nit comb is not able to catch the pieces as they are too small. She looked at them under the microscope and they really are pieces of yucky stuff from lice and old hatched out eggs. She found a few live ones, too, but mostly it is this stuff that is now distributed all over their hair everywhere and looks terrible. They have black hair. You can't just pick them out - there are literally thousands of little "remnants."

Has anyone had this problem and been able to solve it? Thanks.

[J_9]

The only real thing you can do is continue to treat and comb. The nits will mature in 10 days after treatment if not removed properly. It is a very tedious job, but it has to be done. Take tiny subsections of hair and continuously comb through.

You think black hair is tough, try thick blond hair!! OMG that's terrible!!

Again, unfortunately aside from cutting the hair, you have to be patient and comb... comb... comb