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Summary: Learn why a lice infestation can devastate dreadlocks and force wearers to cut their dreadlocks off from our dreadlock expert in this free hair video clip.
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Natalie Manke Natalie has had her dreadlocks for over four years and is very happy with them and plans to keep them for a long long time. read more
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Questions & AnswersNow I'm going to talk about lice. Lice are very, very bad if you have dreadlocks. If you have dreadlocks and you know somebody who has lice you need to stay away from them. At all cost. Because, if you get a lice infestation you are going to have to cut your hair off and that sucks a lot. Especially if you have put in a lot of time and effort, but you just can't get them out. They are nasty little suckers and they will stay in your hair. They get all in it and you just can't comb them out. You can try to to use NIX or RID or something but, it is probably not going to work and you're probably going to have to cut them off, and that is really sad. So you want to avoid the lice situation and also you should just be generally careful of other bugs. Since your hair is kind of a little nest-like. Like I have never heard that fleas can get in your hair, but I've got pets and they have fleas and I have never had any flea problems. So just be aware of bugs and avoid lice. If you want to try to help prevent lice there are sprays, like sprays for babies and little kids, that have things like rosemary in them. Rosemary is supposed to be a lice repellent. So if you want to do some profrolacted hair you just spray some of that on. I had some conditioning spray that had rosemary in it that was suppose to be a lice repellent. So you could do that if you are paranoid or if you know somebody that has lice or were even exposed to someone that has lice or if you are around little kids all the time you know because lice is death. Lice is death for your dreads and that is really sad.
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Hi, Natalie! I've NEVER TRIED THIS before, but this was some advice my vet gave me: if you've been exposed to lice (for example, if you work in a grade school where there are often head lice epidemics) you can use a monthy flea/tick/lice product like the one used on pets - on yourself! He said a drop or two placed at the crown of the head as a preventative measure would be more than sufficent to repel the critters and would be completely safe on a child, teen or adult. Again, I've never tried this, but he says he has tried it when one child came home with head lice and the rest of the family remained lice-free. I plan on packing some with me when I visit India next year - better safe than bald! lol Thanks again, Natalie!