~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This message is from PedTalk! To reply to the group, use "" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi I'm a mom with four kids that has a lot of experience treating head lice! I think that many are becoming resistant to treatment. There is a great site by the National Pediculosis Association at www.headlice.org - try them out. Many of the treatments you have been discussing are supposed to be dangerous. Lindane, for example, as I'm sure you know, has been banned by 18 countries. Using it overnight under a shower cap is not a good idea! Also, someone mentioned something about a patient's family seeing a "lice nest" in their kid's dresser. Impossible. Lice will starve within 24-48 hours off of their human host. They live on us, not in our furniture!! Anyway, I'm still hard at work trying to keep my kids free of headlice. Something that has seemed to work for me: after treament and removal of ALL nits, wash the childs hair on a daily basis and dry it with a hairdryer. This allows for frequent checks of the child's head, and the heat can't hurt either! We haven't had a reinfestation for about 6 months now with me doing this. Try out that site, though. LOTS of great info about treatments and truths about lice.