Nits are lice eggs and are glued to the hair shaft and do not come off easily. Nits are not attracted to anything since they don't move.

If mayonnaise could consistently kill lice, why would there be any lice products, prescriptions, and lice removal businesses? Think carefully before you attempt this home remedy. Every article that recommends mayo also recommends combing with a lice comb because lice combing gets rid of lice. Mayo may suffocate some of them, but you won't [...]

Unless they are body lice, they will die within 8-24 hours without spraying anything. Your best option is to vacuum the furniture, concentrating on the headrests. Spraying listerine on your furniture is a great way to damage or ruin your furniture and won't kill head lice. Don't do it.

After spending 8-24 hours off a head, without feeding, head lice will dehydrate and die. Any nits that fall off the head are unlikely to hatch and if they do, they will die very quickly unless they can feed, Unless you are rolling your head around on the carpet, you are not going to [...]

Yes, and so will holding your head under water for 24 hours, but that's not good for you either. It is extremely unlikely you will completely eliminate head lice using a hair dryer without damaging your scalp or hair in the process. Even professional services that rely on heat devices manually comb for 30-60 [...]

Yes. If you are worried, get a professional lice check and you'll have peace of mind instead of fretting about it. Lice spread primarily from head-to-head, or hair-to-hair, contact.

Lice do not care if hair is clean or dirty. They are bugs that evolved to live on heads of all kinds and eat blood to survive. It's not worthwhile to anthropomorphize head lice. Being a clean or a dirty person has no connection to catching head lice.

The best treatment is fast, effective, affordable, convenient, and healthy. Compare all the time and money lost trying to do it yourself: the cost of a lice comb and products, lost wages from missed work, lost daycare days you already paid for, childcare for missed school days, and hours spent combing on irritated children, [...]

It depends on how you treat them and if you check and treat everyone that might have them. Here are the ways to get rid of lice from fastest to slowest. Shaving everyone's head. It's the fastest, but also very unpleasant. Hiring a lice service is the second fastest way to get rid of [...]

It is possible for head lice to live on pillows and sheets for about 8-24 hours. After that, they will be too dehydrated to generate the saliva they need to feed and will dies. They do not burrow into beds or pillows.