Use Your Hedrin! (Hedrin Headlice Solution)

Member Name: wigglylittleworm

Product:	Hedrin Headlice Solution
Date:	20/05/09 (244 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: it works

Disadvantages: expensive, left hair a bit greasy

My daughter came home with the dreaded headlice again so I popped along to the chemist and asked for some treatment. I'm lucky that where I live that the pharmacist can prescribe for minor ailments so I was given two 50ml bottles of Hedrin free, normal price for each bottle would be £4.99.

Hedrin works in a different way to other headlice treatment, instead of using an insecticide which many headlice are now resistant too it uses the active ingredient dimeticone which physically smother the little creatures.

After reading the instructions I opened the bottle and prepared to apply the lotion to my daughters hair paying particular attention to the nape of the neck and around the ears where the beasties seem to love to congregate. The solution is clear and odourless, anyone who has used one of the alcohol based nit lotions will appreciate how much of a difference this makes. The lotion feels really oily and I was worried there would not be enough to cover my daughters thick below shoulder curls but after combing the lotion through the hair it was all nicely covered.

You need to leave the Hedrin lotion on overnight and then wash your hair as normal. The lotion was fairly difficult to wash out due to the oiliness and left my daughters hair feeling and looking dull and greasy until she washed it again. This is slightly annoying but better than having nits and didn't cause the damage that some other lotions have caused. It did not cause her any scalp irritation but it did irritate my very dry and sensitive hands when I applied it so if you are planning on using it on someone with sensitive skin it may be worth doing a patch test first.

After daughter had washed her hair it was time to get the nit comb out and check to see if the lotion had worked. I was pleased to see that the headlice that we combed out of her hair were all dead so Hedrin obviously works. I will use the second bottle of solution a week after the first treatment to make sure that if there are any newly hatched nits then they are eradicated too.

I'm impressed with the results that I got using Hedrin and it was much more pleasant to use than other nit lotions. The only downside is the high price, it costs £10 for two applications a week apart so if you have a couple of kids with headlice then it will work out very expensive to treat them.

Summary: A headlice treatment that works