Punk Rock Lice Treatments

Me as a blonde

You know what totally fucking kills head lice? Bleach.

Last time they plagued our house, I got rid of mine by shaving my hair down to a Mohawk. Now, they’re baaaaaaack.

I didn’t really feel like shaving my head again in December, so I reached for the peroxide. My head is like a toxic waste site now. A shiny, cute toxic waste site with nothing crawling on it. I’m happy.

And oddly blonde. I’ve never been blonde for more than a few minutes. Every time I look in the mirror, I see a stranger. As someone put it to me at a party today, “You look like a totally cute person, but not like you.”

I suspect I’ll dye it tomorrow.

Another, less punk, treatment for lice: Cetaphil. A mom at Rio’s school told me about the Cetaphil lice treatment. I was dubious, as I often am with alternative remedies to common ailments. How could hand cleanser get rid of lice?

After months of getting the kids’ heads clear with the toxic shampoo only to have the lice crop back up again a few weeks later, I’ve gotten desperate. Since pesticides weren’t working, I thought I’d try smothering them instead.

Cetaphil proved to be super-effective. Rio had the worst case of lice I’ve seen yet when I found them on her head last weekend. I put the Cetaphil on her head and the next morning they were gone. It was pretty amazing. I’ve been carefully combing her for nits ever since and found none. A couple of dead lice have turned up, so we did the treatment again tonight, but there’s basically no sign of an ongoing infestation.

LOVE THIS.

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