Once lice are discovered, daily or every other day if pushed for time, you need to wet the child's hair, apply conditioner, thoroughly comb the hair section by section, then rinse off the conditioner. This removes live lice and a few eggs, and repeated over the next few days removes newly-hatched lice, breaking their cycle of hatching then laying. In my experience it takes two to three weeks to remove all lice - without a chemical in sight and no expensive outlay.
I also wet comb once a week to check that the head remains clear of 'visitors'. If all parents did this we'd see a decrease in the lice population and keep children free from insecticides.
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