also because of the life cycle do it again 16 days later to get any possible newbies.

I will put conditioner in a spray bottle & spray some on each morning. makes the hair too slippery.

we've had a problem in our school recently after sisters in Y1 & Y5 started, eldest one is in one of the classes I work in & she came to ask me a question last week & I could actually see them dancing around at the top of her ponytail, never actually seen them like that before

I used the cheapest hair conditioner and just plastered it on then combed. I also used olive oil and left that on overnight and combed and washed the next day. Washed everything, pillows, the lot. Repeated two weeks later just in case I had missed any. I also used a spray of ecualyptus, lavender and tea-tree diluted in water on the dry hair each morning to ward off any little devils.

I also phoned the parents of his friends or anyone that he sat next to in class and told them he had had them. One commented I was 'very brave, to own up' my reply was 'well, he picked them up off someone and I don't want it to keep going around'. I later found out that her numerous children kept getting them - passing between each other and my son sat next to hers.

I must say that I spray my hair if there is an outbreak in class and clip my hair back and try to avoid any head to head contact.

If you have girls please remember to wash all hairbands, clips etc. and encourage them not to share, although these days this could be the same for boys!

It's awful when it seems never ending. Had that in the past when mine were younger. In the end I turned to a lotion called Derbac M and that blitzed the little blighters.

I have resorted to buying a Nitty Gritty comb which I must admit seems well worth the money. I feel like I have spent a fortune thou!
Think there is finally the end is in sight in our house, until the begining of September of course