Bugs

My kids have lice. Yeah, nice. They think it's kind of funny. I'm not as pleased.
The first night we went the chemical route with the over the counter stuff and we used the nit picken' comb.
It's gross picking bugs out of your kid's head. Dead little lice bodies. Ewe. My college roommate used to sit on the couch and pick stuff out of her guy's head. It gave me the dry heaves every time I saw it. Even the monkeys gross me out when they pick stuff out of each other. And now I'm doing the nit picking.
After reading on the web that the over the counter stuff has chemicals in it similar to bug spray, I felt guilty and went to the "mayo head" remedy. Spread mayo all over head, cover with shower cap, cover with towel, sit for two hours, wash out.
Tonight we did the remedy everybody swears by. 16 oz. of Cedaphil soap on the head, blow dry into a helmet, shower cap on, sleep in it over night. Apparently they smother, suffocate and die this way.
And always the combing out of the nits twice daily. I've been doing it religiously. I don't really see any nits anymore. But I'll keep doing it.
I've been ferociously washing sheets and towels and clothes and pillows and combs and brushes and jackets and hats and stuff. Stuffed all the dress up clothes and stuffed animals into bags to put away for a few weeks. Apparently lice need human heads to live off of - otherwise they die within 48 hours.
The washing of everything is just exhausting.