Nits! Arrrrrrrgh!

Are you scratching after just reading the title of this one? Nits! Those ferral little crettins that make your skin crawl (literally!). No matter how many times you treat your kids hair they just keep coming back and we all know that it's because of those few families at school who neglect to treat their kid's hair when the break outs happen, wether they are just too lazy or they just assume that their children are too good to have nits and don't bother checking, I don't know, but I have the solution!
Solution! Nit treatments are expensive! My daughter had a huge breakout once and over the course of about 4 weeks I spent over $80 on different treatments to try to get rid of the little buggers and they just didn't work! And some of them would smell so strong my daughter was walking around on cloud nine! My sister in law told me to use conditioner and a nit comb and comb them all out. This worked better than all the expensive treatments I tried, and was cheap as chips. You might have to do this a few days in a row in bad brekouts, but prevention is way better and easier than cure, and guess what, I found the prevention!
Prevention! Quite by accident, I stumbled upon what I have found to be a full proof prevention to nits! When ever I brush my daughter's hair in the morning I always spray it with a spray bottle with water and a little conditioner in it, originally I started this to make brushing easier as my daughter is a screamer when it comes to knots! One day I lost the spray bottle, I lost it for over a month, and that is when the big outbreak I spoke of before occured. When I had the outbreak under control I checked with the nit comb every day after school and would find the odd 1 or 2, I realised that after finding my tangle spray bottle and using it daily again that I was not finding any nits at all! Even when other parents in her class were still complaining about the problem. I am 100% convinced that this prevention works, we spent a year in Darwin where the schools have huge problems with the creepy little pests, our school had a nits blitz every month and rewarded kids who have been checked and treated  with icey cups! And through the whole year, not one nit! And my daughter's hair is always shiny and silky. Try it, and let me know if it works for you. You only need about a table spoon of conditioner in about 250mL of water.
ps, while writing this post I think I have scratched my scalp right through to my brain!