Can someone please tell me if this will work or not please?  have read on an american website that if you put a "contaminated" item of clothing that can't be boiled in a sealed plastic bag for two weeks, it will suffocate any lice etc.  Can the same be said for putting a woolly hat in the freezer for a fortnight?

For a change it's not my kids with nits but I just want to know the answer, am convinced that the kid is getting re-infected with nits from a hat & not a child this time. 

I would have said that you wouldn't get headlice from a hat unless the hat was passed from head to head.  I don't think the lice can live for very long off the head - as for nits - I doubt the lice would lay on the wool would they?  Not heard of that before.  Unless the eggs were on hair that stuck to the hat - then they wouldn't survive long either once hatched.  Sorry I am rambling on to myself but nits are a hot topic in our house at the moment (itch itch) because my granddaughter has come home with a letter saying they are in her class. My daughter is researching the best methods - comb and comb again I believe.

The nitty gritty combs are fantastic.

Wel unless there is blood in a plastic bag then I would have thought, after 2 weeks, the nits would have starved to death :)
Do they out it in the freezer as well?????
And If it is a child, has he/she got a mate that has them and just keep getting reinfected from hthere mate??????
Also, I believe, they can only survive off the head for so long, which is only a matter ofdays.
Lea :)
:)

http://www.nittygritty.co.uk/ng/index.jsp?page=/displayArticle.jsp&sectionCode=factsoflice

there you go ;)

Product link at the top of the page ;)

I bought my Nitty Gritty in Boots and use it with plenty of cheap conditioner ;) - worth every penny ;)

thanks, have got nitty gritty, use hedrin, tea tree oil, hair gel.  It's actually an adult that's got it, but none of the kids actually seem to have it this time.  Well my two haven't & they always end up with it, hence knowing the many types of getting rid of.  All we could think of was this woolly hat!  On an american website they suggest boiling all contaminated clothing & sealing woollens in a plastic bag with no air for 2 weeks.  They say lice/eggs can last for months without food but not so long without air ;-)  Personally I'd like to take put them under  a microscope & watch them die slowly as I'm soooo fed up with nits at our school.  We haven't had them in our house since before summer - but no doubt if a parent's got it, it won't be long :-(

itch itch, off to comb my hair with nitty gritty, hair is now beginning to look like a haystack.

It is possible that the adult had head to head contact with someone - it only takes a brush of heads somewhere busy - may not have even remembered it.  My daughter (who is now the world's leading authority on headlice after researching on the internet ;-) ) says that it is impossible to get headlice from hats.   She has just got a set of combs.  She is now constantly peering at her children's hair  - looking rather like our cousins in the ape world!  

Yuck maddog, never had to contend with it so I'm no help at all :)

Tea Tree Shampoo is very good for keeping Nits at bay.  I always used either a tea tree shampoo or conditioner and mine never got them.

I believe i it and it's worth a try nothing to loose.

Mine are washed with Tea tree shampoo & I drip neat tea tree into their hair most days.

We've had another session of Hedrin in our house this week so it's obviously back at school with a vengeance!  DD didn't get it this time but treated her anyway.  shame as I thought the hairgel on ds was working! 

Scratch, scratch ;-)

Been there in the old days I used to do the whole family, all the towells, pillow cases that was back when you could only get prioderm.
Good luck, (Ive just scratched can you get it off CD's)