So I started working on dreads about a month and a half ago, and used the backcombing method so most of the dreads are already starting to get knotted up (not all the way of course, but they're not completaly loose either). I know some of you guys don't like the whole backcomb thing, but the deed is done, and I just thought I'd tell you... So it appears that I might have some eggs in my hair, but I can't really tell. My roots are filled with white flaky things that seem like dandruff or something weird (there's a LOT of it) but there's also peices of hair with tiny white things attached that remind me of the eggs. I'm setting up a doctors appointment tomorow to find out what it really is, but I want to be prepared for the worst. Is all hope lost? I have fine blond hair, and I'm worrying that if I put something strong in my hair to kill the eggs then it will also burn my hair up. The methods I've found so far involve soaking your hair in vinigar with cayenne pepper, rubbing alchohol, peroxide, and essential oils. I'm just coming for advice on if this stuff really works or any other tips or maybe share your past experiance with lice. I'm seriously concerned that soaking my hair in vinigar is going to like, make it break apart. I really don't want to have to cut my hair off if I do have lice. I also have another question. People probably ask this a lot, but I have a lot of pretty big kinks in my hair, like unknoted oval peices sticking out at the most an inch or less. It looks pretty weird if I have my hair down and I'm a little vain so I usually have my hair back and not down. then it at least looks passable. they are very noticable. will they be as noticable once they actually lock up? I'm not looking for perfect dreads but I also want to look nice. I've been doing the palm roling thing (again, I know some people will probably disagree with that, but it's my choice...) and it's not really smoothing them out much. any opinions and ideas and advice are welcomed. thanks! I'll post the results from the doc when I get them.
i the white egg looking thing are the roots of your hair. if you tried and pull one strand of your hair and a bit of scalp skin came off thatll be it like a little egg...and about the flaky stuff it happend same to if i dont brush the flakes of my hair off it get stuck inside the dreads so when i open them i see some so what i do is just shake them flakes of from time to time and wash it with my shampoo concoction hehehe... but if you see a live lice thats crawling around then start to worry...
yeah, i highly doubt you have lice. you would itch and have little bugs crawling around. it's normal to have some flakes, and the white stuff at the end of your hairs is just skin from the scalp. also, anytime my hair strands break at all, they get little white stuff on them, like you're describing. it does look wierd, but i swear, it's not bugs or bug eggs.
I used to get those all the time, even when I was just having my hair braided. Remember that you are always losing hairs daily, and if you have dreads or braids, they have no where to go, and the roots will hang out near your head for a little while. Whenever I would remove my braids, it was unreal how much hair collected on the comb. Like everyone else said, don't worry about it, unless you've got major itchies and bugs you can see. Even if you get them, there are ways to get rid of them.
im seconding what everyones already said, but.. i read somewhere that if you have got dreads & lice, smear loads and loads of vaseline everywhere, wear a showercap and a towel for an hour or so, and itll suffocate them, then wash with really really hot water (above 50 deg C is needed to kill them) and rinse it all off. i dont know if it works cause ive never had to try it, but its one of them things i read =] but tbh it does just sound as though its the root/bits of scalp. i get it too, its not nice =/
vibnagar kills ehggs not the live bugs but what u giot is dammage from backcombing backcombing is agressive and breaks alotta hair and yanks a ton out at the roots palm rolling ad twisting can pull morte out and do more dammage the loops u describe are part of the process they will tighten up in time learnh to love em over palm rolling will dammage hair too u dont gotta do any]but if u do be genrle and dont over do it your best to leafe it alone especialy since ya already doid alotta dammage
my hair doesn't really seem to be too damaged yet, and yeah the loops in my hair I'm not too worried about. when I first looked at my roots I dismissed it as being dandruff or flakes of skin from getting my head sunburnt but when I look at the tips of my hair where some is still loose it just reminds me a lot of the eggs. there is some itching but not nearly as much as when I first backcombed them and I was told that some itching is normal. I had lice once before but I never found live lice, just a bunch of eggs. also I have something on my scalp that reminds me of a bite but maybe it's not I'm going to get it checked just to make sure and if I do have lice I'll do everything in my power to get it out I've been looking up other methods and I don't really wanna use the nit stuff because I heard the chemicals are really bad.
the cnemicals are really bad i was totyured with that crap in the hospitol...and i never even had lice i had dandruff and they misdiagnosed it they turtured my with that chemical crap so bad my scalp was bleedoing and comming off in chunks.. to this day its a mess from that and that was 9 or more yeasrs ago
No, white vinegar will penetrate the thin exoskeleton and once that happens to any arthropod its all over. You can actually dissolve lice in vinegar if they are exposed to it long enough.
agreed, I try to stay away from chemicals anyway Well! I get it checked today, no lice, thank goodness! They said the things that looked like eggs aren't eggs or dandruff, just my hair spliting in weird ways. but now I know to use vinigar in case that ever does happen. now I just have to figure out how to get this dandruff out. thank you everybody.
DELACET!!!!! trust me, if it turns out you have em, buy it and use it. you wont have lice OR eggs a few hours later
well i caught them a few months ago and i killed them with Rid, i don't like chemicals either but i would have put rotten piss in my hair if i had to to get rid of those motherfuckers lol. i washed my hair with it every other day to kill babies (lol that sounds bad) as they hatched and any others that i missed in previous washings. the only problem is the hatched eggshells are still in my hair and i didnt notice them before but now my hair has grown out a bit and now they are very visible and very disgusting how can i get them out???????? i did an experiment with vinegar- i pulled out some hairs with eggs attatched and put them in a tupperware lid with vinegar for 2 hours and the eggs were still attatched to the hairs will the delacet do it? if not what will??? there are too many to pick out by hand.
deep clease eats away dried skin dont twist dont palm rill dont mess with your hair at akll give it time tio heal time for new growth to fill in where u yanked iyt out andbroke it letsseee pics
i wonder wwe know orange oil dissilves wax tar sand glues anyt type adhesives really if the vinagar didnt work (it shoulda) then maybe try orange oil? its certainly worth a shot and theireticly should do the trick
i shall engage in another clinical study with the orange oil and publish my results here, thanks for the suggestion
