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help!! mega itchy scalp!!

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Hi Thank you for your advice!! ill see if i can try and looking into what i eat more and see if that makes a difference. I do eat alot of bread if white flour is a trigger! i have actually just washed my hair about 2 hours ago and i finished with a jug full of cold water and some peppermint and tea tree oil and it felt soooo good!! and no itch yet!! I'm hoping this will work and i wont wake up tomorrow morning with a itchy head again! Thank you for your advice and good luck to you aswell !!

Heidi said:

My scalp is itchy a lot, too. No bugs. I use dreadlock shampoo bars from buck county soap and I rinse in cool water that has a few drops od peppermint oil and tea tree oil added. I even make a rosemary thyme tea for my hair occasionally. That all helps but the itchiness comes back. I think it's my diet. I know eating refined flour and/or sugar can cause an overgrowth of yeast in the body and that sometimes results in a very itchy scalp. I have cut out all refined sugar and now I am working on eliminating all the white flour, too. I've noticed some relief already. Good luck!

help!! mega itchy scalp!!

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There big i guess probs about an inch wide i think. and i will i hope not though just mentioning lice makes me go all itchy ewewew!!

i do have eczema but ive never had it on my head before if it sores or something. I dont even know if you can get eczema on your scalp ill have to look into it.

And thank you if i can find nothing that will help ill do another alcohol wash but for longer this time. If its not lice and just that i have an itch would doing another alcohol rinse ruin my hair in anyway? Im just curious.

soaring eagle said:

how big are the big ones i assume ay t the back

have someone with good eyes look at the scalp and roots where it itches

if u have a small colony of critters they can be localized where thy feel safest behind the ears and back of head hidden under big fat dreads so if u check the top of your head u might miss them

moving on

have u started washing your pillowwcases with anything new? can be an alergic reaction to anything most likely the laundrey detergent but could be the fabric itself if its a new pullowcase

other possibilities infected or iritated sores from scratching

oh

if it was bugs doing 1 alcahol treatments not gonna kell em all

and u said wash u wash with alcahol u just get the bugs nice and clean..u gotta suffocate em fill yoir head with fumes (most efective to wraop in plastic wrap) seal in the fumes so they have nothing to breathe but toxic alcahol vapors

this has to be a bare minumum of 15 minutes they can hold thier breath 14 so 30 minutes isa highly recomended (dont smoke you are extremly flamable)

help!! mega itchy scalp!!

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I do sleep on my back actually! and as for the sweat related thing i work out once every other day and do work up a lot of sweat so that might be the problem as well. i was very itchy before i put the alcohol on my head so although that might be a factor now it wasn't the cause.

I separate my locks once a week but its only really the locks on the top of my head that needs separating all the ones underneath are fine but i do have rather large locks i think all together i only have about 40 but i do have about 4 really large ones especially at the back of my head which are all about 2-3 locks joined together where they have been just to knotted for me to rip apart in the past and i didn't want to cut them so i just left them be.

Ive just finished washing my hair so if i get any more scratches from now on ill try tapping instead of itching and see if that makes a difference Thank you!!

Angel Frye said:

Do you sleep on your back?

When I do sleep on my back I notice increased itchiness there. Might be sweat related. I wash every 2-3 three days, too. Even if I don't think I need it. I wash just to wash because it gives me an opportunity to scrub around with my fingertips on soapy wet scalp. ahhhh.. feels soooo good!

Are your locks well separated? Pulling hairs can get aggitated and instead of hurting they can itch at times.

You could also have a scalp that is in recovery mode from all the alcohol you put on it. Regrowing skin itches like a bitch.

I'd suggest tapping or patting that itchy area instead of scratching with nails or even fingertips. Just don't knock yourself out. If it is regenerating skin then the itchiness will eventually pass.

help!! mega itchy scalp!!

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Im not sure it could be the wether has been much hotter than it normally is so that might be why its itchy so much

NaturalDreads01 said:

hmm.. is your scalp dry maybe?

help!! mega itchy scalp!!

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Hi im wondering if anybody can help me out. My knots are nearly 14th months old. My scalp has always been a little itchy but in the past I've just washed it and its went away but recently its gotten really bad and still itches even after i wash my hair. I bought the tea tree and rosemary deadlock shampoo bar thinking that will solve the problem but it hasn't. I even thought it could be lice so i checked and found nothing but still washed my hair with rubbing alcohol the way SE has mentioned just incase and still no relief from the itch. Its just becoming so annoying and i really don't know what to do. I wash my hair every 2 days with cool water. is there anything else i could do or does anyone have any ideas that would maybe stop this itch Its not all over my head its mainly the back of my head that gets itchy the most.

updated by @harriet: 01/13/15 09:52:57PM

12 months crochet to natural timeline :)

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Hi everyone!!! seen as though today is a very important day and I'm really excited i decided to do a timeline of my hair!! I started a year ago today with crochet dreadlocks and i had them for 1 month before combing them out (apart from 10) and starting a natural/neglect journey. I only crocheted my hair once which was the day i made them and the day after thankfully i found this site which made me throw away the crochet hook and eventually comb out most of crochet ones and start again. I did have a lot of problems with my hair e.g washing/separating at first but with the help of this site i got past all of that and stuck with them and I'm so glad i did because i love them so much and couldn't be any happier!! I know its not really a year today because i did comb them out after a month and start again but i do have 10 of my crochet dread still in so its their year birthday today and it also marks the day i decided to dread my hair and start this journey if that makes sense Annnnywayyy here is my timeline

The day after crocheting my hair:

1 month after combing out and starting again (you can tell which ones are the crochet ones if not there mainly the ones at the bottom with the beads on):

2 months:

3 months:

4 months (dyed the ends of them pink):

7 months (in this one i decided to comb out 2 more crochet dreadlocks at the bottom of my head also was having trouble properly separating them as you can tell from the huge mess):

8 months(managed to sort out the huge mess on the side of my head):

9 months:

10 months:

11 months:

12 months taken today:

I cant believe how much they have changed and I'm so happy with them!! During the 4-7 month mark i was having huge problems and just really hated them and did want to comb them all out a few times but im so glad i stuck it out. During the last 3 months as they have started to knot up a lot more and my bangs have started to knot up and the front of my hair adding an extra 3 dreads to my hair. i still have a lot of loose hair but that doesn't bother me at all. I also have 4 congos which i wasn't happy about at first and i separated them alot but each time they would end up back together so i eventually gave in and i now love them! I do NOTHING with my hair and i Havnt since i started all i do is i wash 2-3 times a week with either the baking soda wash or the deadlock nag champa shampoo and i separate. I did separate after every wash but in the past 2 months i found that i don't need to as much so now i only separate once a week and that is it i do nothing else

I cant wait to see what this next year brings !!!

Thanks everyone so much for you help and i hope everybody else's journey is full of love and happiness

updated by @harriet: 02/05/15 10:12:49AM

Help!! Nasty sticky roots

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No

Doogie said:

But does that "sticky" feeling go away once your hair is dry?

Harriet said:

Hmm now that you mention it they are a lot stickier when there wet but not unfortunately still not normal feeling

Doogie said:

do they kinda have a sticky, funky feeling after ya wash with the Nag Champa shampoo when they're still wet but when they dry seem fine? I have hard water and I also use that scent in the liquid and Patchouli liquid and after I rinse I have that sticky, funky feeling but once completely dry they're fine! I think it has something to do with the liquid shampoo and I think it's normal cause other than that, I don't have any issues!

Help!! Nasty sticky roots

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I live in a very small town they dont sell it anywhere the only place I've been able to find it is ither ebay or amazon

soaring eagle said:

why did u have to order it and have it delivered just go to your local drug store or supermarket and buy some

Help!! Nasty sticky roots

Help! Save My Dreads

Noo I've never ever used wax or any other products on my hair other than the dreadlock nag champa shampoo

Hari Shabad said:

Did you use wax at some point? If you did that's probably what it is. Theres a wax remover on dreadlockshampoo.com se says works pretty well. I am a newbie so that's all I got. Maybe a more experienced person will jump in here.

Help!! Nasty sticky roots

Help! Save My Dreads

Hmm now that you mention it they are a lot stickier when there wet but not unfortunately still not normal feeling

Doogie said:

do they kinda have a sticky, funky feeling after ya wash with the Nag Champa shampoo when they're still wet but when they dry seem fine? I have hard water and I also use that scent in the liquid and Patchouli liquid and after I rinse I have that sticky, funky feeling but once completely dry they're fine! I think it has something to do with the liquid shampoo and I think it's normal cause other than that, I don't have any issues!