Flea spray be bad for you?

egle · May 3, 2007

Right, im fed up with these nights, i have flea spray in my hand, i know it gets into ur blood and kills fleas then they suck it, Would it work on nits and would it be damagering,

I almost got so pissed of with em i contemplated cutting them of (but i found this forums and saw nice dreads and thought, naa)

colorfulhippie · May 3, 2007

why not just cover your hair when around bugs?

i personally would never put flea spray on my hair or in my body.

egle · May 3, 2007

yea, but u arnt crawwin with nits, my hairs clean and nice and i love my dreads, and i dont wna be one of the people that cut em off after a few months

bunjies · May 3, 2007

i dont let that stuff near my pets! systemic poison is not the way to go hun!
have you tried hedrin? its a nit stuff that isnt poison, it works by suffocating the lice and killing them
there is also vinegar though i'm not sure how you go about doing it.
worst comes to the worst, if you must use chemicals at least use one designed for headlice xx

knotdirty · May 4, 2007

no good.

Just google "bugs" "lice" "dreadlocks"

or go to dreadheadhq...or is it knottyboy? one of those sites has good cures for buggies.

Don't use the commercial stuff...you have to comb that out, remember? or the nasties will stick in your dreads and...ew.

my head itches.

**edit**

K, this stuff is straight from the knottyboy website.

The first thing to determine is whether it's just dandruff due to oily buildup, dry scalp... or bugs. Like I said before, use your common sense about cleanliness - don't do dirty stuff like tree-planting, dirt-biking or smell-related work without a hat on, DON'T sleep next to someone if you suspect they might have lice or some other funky thing going on in their own hair, and DON'T let animals sleep next to your head ever. If something weird has crawled into your dreads, laid eggs and is having a party in there - please, don't go into denial because you're afraid you might have to chop your dreads off... DEAL WITH IT IMMEDIATELY. Check out our mighty dreadlock FAQ pages for help from other people that have dealt with lice and bugs in their dreads, but don't wait to deal with the problem. Lice is highly contagious and you'll give it to others - that's not very cool at all, right? OK. Not a good way to make friends.
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just put that in because...well it's a thing that should be prevented at all costs, as you probably know.

k, here are some suggestions.

A. Here are also a few tips emailed us about lice removal, use at your own risk and don't contact us about them, as they are not Knotty Boy tested!:
Knotty Aaron:
"I found out that had lice about a year ago. The denial was overwhelming! I can now say that I don’t have them any more! I hope my advice will help other dreads across da planet!
To kill da enemy, you must understand da enemy!!!
This is so true, so here are some facts to get you all started:

- Nits (eggs) will hatch within 6-7days
- Hatchlings are sexually mature and able to lay eggs within a few days! A fully mature female can lay up to 15 eggs a day! Times that by 15 and that’s what you might have in less than 2 weeks! A lot of scratchin’!
- Lice are very adaptable, and can become immune to a product/chemical after a short period of time (hard as nails, they are)!
- The chemical they release, that causes the itching is released in such a small amount, that it takes about 6 weeks for it to have an itching affect. Meaning, the itching you might be feeling now may be from bites from 6 weeks ago!
- Lice love warm spots. Behind the ears and on the crown of your head is ideal!

Keeping these facts in mind, it makes the task of getting rid of them a lot easier!
I used a product (found in the UK) called Full Marks Lice Mousse. Being a mousse I found it easier to work with, and the white color helps you make sure you have covered all the areas of you scalp. A helping hand is always appreciated.

Pay most attention to behind the ears and the crown of the head. Most products do very well killing the lice and not the nits (eggs). So the secret is repeating the process every 5-6 days. That gives them chance to hatch. I did this for about a month, washing my hair with tea tree oil between the treatments. Tea tree oil isn’t proven to kill lice, but it does help repel them, making them drop out and not lay as many eggs. You also might find that the product you’re using isn’t killing the lice after a while. Changing the product helps, as they get used to products after a while. The closer you find the eggs to the scalp, the more recently they have been laid. They are laid as close as possible to the scalp to help incubate the eggs. The unhatched eggs will be almost brown in color and transparent. White eggs are hatched and harmless. Do your best to pick the eggs out. It may only seem like a little amount of help and pointless efforts, but one less egg is one less louse, and fifteen less in a couple of weeks!

Anyway, good luck! Like I said, it worked for me and it can be done! May I be hope to you all!

Knotty Anonymous:
"After discovering I had lice, I carefully and painstakingly took out my dreads. After NiX and RiD (lice treatment stuff) wouldn't work, I took Vaseline and just caked it on my hair. I worked all my hair with thick globs of the stuff. Wrapped my oily, greasy hair with a towel and after about 48 hours (I think), I shampooed and shampooed until most of the junk was out and I had nary an itch! It works by suffocating the little buggers and nits until they die (bugs need air, too!). Now I am lice free, so it's a pretty foolproof method of lice removal. Just lots of grease! I did it *after* I took my dreads out, so I have no idea if it would work if a dreadie tried it. You have to completely saturate your hair with the Vaseline, so it might prove difficult to get in the little spongy gaps of air (where the lice might hide). But if someone with dreads had lice, and they could get the Vaseline into the dreads enough (without ruining the knots), it might work. But getting the Vaseline out might be a problem. Anyway, let it be known that it is strictly by chance that I got lice while I had dreads. Having dreads has absolutely nothing to do with getting lice (although it might be more difficult to get rid of the lice if you've got dreads). Since my dreads were loose and young, I had the good-ass fortune to get away with not cutting my hair off."
Knotty Ryan:
"I have heard of another way of possibly ridding your hair of bugs if you get them. I have no idea if it works, or its side effects, but it goes like this... Supposedly if you soak your scalp and dreads in rubbing alcohol, them put a plastic bag over your hair to trap the fumes in, it will kill all the bugs if you leave the bag on for a while. I have no idea how this might affect your dreads, or scalp, but if it is a last resort, it might be worth trying."
Knotty Adam:
"I was just reading your page on lice, and wanted you to know that there are a few solutions besides chopping off your hair. For instance, you can soak your head in tea tree oil and then put all your hair up in something airtight like a shower cap or saran wrap for a week. **A week??** The tea tree oil kills live bugs (not their eggs) so you need to keep it applied until all eggs that were in your hair have hatched and died."
Knotty Amanda:
"I've read a bit about combating lice in your dreads. Shortly after I started my dreads I went to India. The whole time I was super paranoid about getting lice. Ironically I spent six months in India with no problem but after being home for just a few months... that's right, I got lice. Everyone I talked to told me I would have to cut them off, but after the long process it took to just make my dreads look somewhat good, I wasn't going down without a fight and I am happy to say that I still have my dreads...lice free. I started out with the super strong lice treatment (nix?) that claims to kill not only lice, but also the eggs. Then I went to my local organic food store and got an organic lice treatment shampoo and conditioner that could be used daily. Yeah it cost almost $15 for the both, but it was well worth it. After a week, I retreated my hair with the super strong treatment. I used the shampoo and conditioner until it was finished, but by that time, there were no more bugs in my hair. I am happy to say that I didn't spread the bugs to anyone even though I have two roommates. Just be really careful, and as soon as you suspect that you have bugs in your head, do something. It is really easy to be in denial. It was almost a week before I really realized that yes, I had lice and something had to be done. I don't know how my roommates, especially since one of them has long hair, avoided the bugs. I think the key is to combat them on a daily basis and that can't be done with super strong drugstore lice treatment. So that is it. Hope it helps!"
You can contact her for more info at: zulululu002@yahoo.com
Knotty Naomi:
“Just a quick tip about lice which I would like to share: if you don’t like putting chemicals on your head to deal with the little buggers, I have the perfect solution: Vinegar! Not only does it kill the offending creatures but it works to dissolve the 'cement' which holds the eggs to the hairs, thus ridding you of your affliction. (A lot of chemical stuff just kills the lice but does not deal with the eggs). Plus, it’s totally au natural! I would suggest using something like cider vinegar or maybe white wine vinegar as they don’t stink quite so bad as the normal fish'n'chip type. Just pour the stuff all over your head, wrap your head in a towel or plastic bag, and sit there for about half and hour stinkin’ the place out - then rinse, and voila! The lice are dead and the eggs are dead, too - so no more lice! Yay for you!!!!”
Knotty Brooke:
“Recently I had lice/nits in my dreds. I tried everything on the market in the way of treatment and nothing worked. Finally I went down to my local health food/naturopath store and asked if they could suggest anything. They made me up a small bottle of pure alcohol, citrus, tea tree and clove and told me to apply it, wrap my head in cling wrap and leave it in for a day or two. Low and behold… it worked. Lice free, it killed the eggs too.”
(Soon to be) Knotty Danni:
“Hello Knotty Kids, I have been wanting dreads for about 6 months, but have had a pretty big lice problem every now and then because of home remedies and such, I searched the web a little and I found www.headlicecure.com a very good and effective way to get rid of the damn things XD.”
Knotty Pete:
“Hey, I just have some stuff about one way to help get lice out of a head of dreads. Here it goes:
It took me about a week to realize that those little bugs crawling around in my head were indeed lice. Before I could save up any money, I just kind of totally blotted Vaseline in between all of my dreads. Actually, because some dread wax's contain petroleum jelly, just waxxin' up the roots REALLY well would probably work too. I then bought some Nix and followed the directions on the box. Just afterwards I covered my entire scalp with shaving cream and left it there for about half an hour. Then I soaked my dreads in vinegar and rubbing alcohol and let them sit in a plastic bag for about nine hours.
After that I bought a bottle of Tea Tree Oil Shampoo and washed my hair with that every other day.
I'm sure you can see that I wasn't going to let my dread goes without a fight to the death, and I've been bug-free ever since. And I also didn't spread it to anyone else. I'd just be super glad to think that I could help some other dread-head out there.”
Knotty Toy:
“Hey...was just reading your page, playing with my dreads, the usual. Anyway-
I have another cure for bugs with the name of the stuff that didn't seem to be on there. Hope it helps.
I've been a Knotty Boy user from my first set of dreads, only I had to comb them out last year 'cos I got horrible head lice. I tried every different kind of chemical smelly stuff available and nothing worked. Rather than cutting my dreads off, I combed them out, got rid of the bugs and redid them.
So...my dreads were doing fine and then I got bugs -again- over the summer!
I found this herbal stuff called NEEM which is utterly amazing. You're supposed to put it on your head, leave it for an hour and wash it out and then do that every day for three days. I put this weird smelling stuff in my dreads, stuck a hat on and reapplied it every day for a week without washing it out and it worked!!!! My dreads were saved....
Anyway, my dreads are doing ok now and I'm happily bug-free and the prospect of bugs no longer terrifies me to the point of avoiding all small children!”
Knotty Melody:
“I've had my dreads for three years now, and my number one concern when I first started my dreads was LICE. I always feared that if I got lice, I would have to cut my precious babies off. Well, about a year and a half with my dreads had passed, and I noticed that my head was itching more than normal. It seems that the people that my brother was rooming with had a bad case of lice, and unfortunately I caught it after sleeping over at his apartment one weekend. I read so many things on the internet about getting rid of lice, and nothing worked. I wasn't going to give up that easily. I went to the store and bought some highly concentrated pet shampoo (for ticks, lice, and nits). My brother suggested that I take a large turkey injector (syringe-type thing) and fill it with the shampoo, and inject each of my dreads and let them sit for an hour or two. Oddly enough, it made sense. And it worked. I rinsed my hair clean, disinfected my pillows/sheets/clothing/hair accessories, and the lice never came back. And even better, I did not have to sacrifice my dreads.”
Knotty Yasmine:
“I love the website. I was surprised that a tried and true method for keeping lice away was not mentioned: a drop of rosemary oil, applied behind each ear, will repel lice naturally. Repeat once a week. If you have lice, rubbing about a teaspoon of oil on your hair will usually drive them away, but since this doesn't kill eggs, you need to keep up the treatment for 1-2 weeks, applying every 2-3 days. Important to note here that this method doesn’t kill the eggs but it is crucial to kill both those nasty nits and their eggs when treating your dreads for lice.”
Knotty Nat:
“This is for those with lice in their dreads!
I have 6 year old dreadlocks,and I came back from central america with a
head infested with jungle lice! I tried everything natural first...tea
tree oil, vinager, even boiling water, then all the lice shampoos on the market...nothing worked. Then, I remembered...my friends' son came home last year from Mexico with a dreaded head FULL of lice...so I called her.
Unfortunately, this is a little bit smelly and chemically, but if nothing works - bleach your hair, and then dye it. It killed everything...on both of us. He had cow lice and I had jungle lice. So last resort...you will not have to shave your dreads. dont do it. Save them!!!!!“

Knotty Vanessa:

"Here is what I did to kill the lice.

1. I reseached the lice, now I understand the way they work.

2. I got all natural tea tree oil shampoo and slept with it in my hair every

night.

3. I went to the doctor and was prescribed super strong lice shampoo, and used it

once a week, for 2 weeks.

My doctor also told me that to defently kill lice and the eggs, you can

suffocate them for 24 hours. He suggested vaseline. I thought yuck vaseline

in my hair for 24 hours, no way. So what I did was I went out and bought a

brick of henna. When I had a free weekend, I went and hid away at my parents

house and left henna in my hair for 24 hours.

4. Washed everything I own and everything in the entire apartment!

I can say that I am officially free of lice, thanks to your website."
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Okay, some tf these ideas are stupid. Like vaseline or wax, for instance...I'd try the vinegar one first were I you.

egle · May 4, 2007

thanks, there is a load of uslful stuff ther, gota get some ful marks mouse and i gota go vinager my hair. ARG 1 just fell on my table. he's the lucky 1, rest are gona pay!

knotdirty · May 4, 2007

Get those little fuckers good, egle!

egle · May 4, 2007

right its on,,,, il keep it there for abit, then wash it off,

Guest543 · May 4, 2007

Eeepp! Just thinking about that makes my head itch. Sorry this happened to you, man. I've had lice a few times in my life. My hair has always been past my shoulders, and it was a pain then. I don't even want to THINK about'em being in my dreads.

Hope you get that taken care of. Good luck.

egle · May 4, 2007

viniger doesnt realy work, done it today and im not cralling but i did just pik 1 out,Full marks next, if they fails.. Bleaching them blond! then dye it blue with some left white

I think il take a phote on the same background with my hair, each time

YAY!!! edit! my mum saw me scratching and thought i might have nits, i wouldnt tell her incase she tryed to chop em off! Got some full marks crap!! Im exited!

bunjies · May 4, 2007

delacet delacet delacet!!!!!!!
after replying to you earlier i discovered a friends kid has lice..... so what i though was itchies wasnt i went and asked my chemist and he gave me delacet. its all herbal and recommended for dreadies. kills lice and eggs so only one treatment is needed.
i soaked my dreads and scalp in it (it smells weird) tied it up wrapped it up and went for a sleep as you have to leave it on for 2 to 3 hours....
i didnt wake up till this morning so it was on overnight ooopppss!
just washed my hair and scrubbed real hard, found 2 dead as a doornail nasty lice. and best of all no itchies!!
i'm gonna use it once a week for a month to be safe but it works!! wooo hooo!!
mental note to self, make sure dreadies are well covered before next visit to mates house!
it was about £8.50 for the bottle and i have a little left over, it says you can dab a bit round your hair/scalp as a preventative too!

egle · May 5, 2007

Sorry for hearin u have nits,, its horrable isnt it

I must get some,, I think mull marks is abit chemical. But Im usin it , maybe delacet next time

FunkyPhreshMama · May 11, 2007

oh man that sucks, my kids got lice about 10 times in the last few months, i had shaved my head a few weeks before so thank god i didn't get nitty dreads oh man........... but those fuckers come back so make sure to clean all your stuff, wash everything in water as hot as possible and try to get some lice killing spray for your furniture and all the stuff you put your head on...........................

nirmalamaya · May 17, 2007

oh my god lol...
i think ive itched my head so much while reading this thread..that ive drawn blood.

How does someone get nits? Can they just magically appear or do you have to be around someone with them?

Ive never had lice..eek!!!

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