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A disclaimer: prepare to leave this review digging at your head and feeling imaginary bugs crawling on your skin. Parasites like head lice are disgusting, but as a mother of three and after seven years working at a daycare center, it’s a subject I am all too familiar with. We recently had an outbreak at my home. You would think having boys would make me immune to this chore, but not a chance with kids that love that unkempt, long-haired, rock and roll style. After trying quite a few lice treatment products through the years, Nix Complete Lice Elimination Kit genuinely impressed me. It’s not something I like dealing with, but this product eased some of the headache. The Nix Complete Lice Elimination Kit has more steps than other kits, however the extra work during treatment considerably reduces the time taken for the final step of all treatments, the removal of …show more content…

This kit cost me about $25.00 at Walgreens. You can find store brands for less than $10.00 and more expensive products for $30.00 or more. The Nix kit is closer to the higher end, but well worth the extra cost. The least expensive treatments would be at home remedies. Everyone has a family member that swears by slathering the child’s head in mayonnaise or even kerosene. Who in their right mind puts kerosene on a child’s head? The cheapest method being the old fashioned way of picking through the hair with tweezers or just your fingernails, pulling out bugs and nits, and placing them in a bowl of water. Picking lice and nits manually takes hours upon hours. Those little lice are amazingly fast and great hiders. At the daycare center where I work, if a child has lice, I’ll usually do the old fashioned method if the mom and dad are struggling with treating at home. Some little ones sit better for a person other than their parents and I’m more than willing to help because I know how rough it can be. I don’t like this method, still it does get the job

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