Liiiccccceee question

[05heel]

Listen to me, and listen good. I ignored this same warning from my daycare. Black people don't really get lice, I said. I continued to ignore when N came home talking about how her BFF, with whom she loves to share dress up hats, had "mosquitoes" in her hair. I started to wonder when the same BFF was at school the next day with her hair shorn like a Dickensian orphan. Then, like a fool, I let N wear her hair down to school for the first time ever. Usually it's in a million ponytails and oiled to the nines.

Then I saw the nits. And then the bugs. Yes, they're actually bugs. For some reason that fact was lost on me until I saw them.

Have you seen how much hair my daughter has? I took an entire day off of work and combed it for like 6 hours. I'm still combing it for an hour every day, just because. NEVER AGAIN.

Have I answered your question? No? I don't even care.

[anonymous]

my kids had lice. we went to a lice specialist. best $500 we ever spent.

[05heel]

Oh, and if you're unsure, it can't hurt to soak her head in olive oil before bed. Just let her sleep on it and rinse in the morning. I poured probably 3 full cups on N's head and it worked better than that RID nonsense. She also smelled like a delicious loaf of focaccia for a few days.

[FastHands]

Don't stress. DS had a case *in* his class, and it was fine. I obsessively checked his head for a while, but it's not like a foregone conclusion that your kid will get it.

If your kid is sharing hats with the Infected, then you worry (LOL 05heel HOW did you think this was not a problem?!)

[05heel]

Apr 15, 2016 15:07:19 GMT -5 FastHands said:

Don't stress. DS had a case *in* his class, and it was fine. I obsessively checked his head for a while, but it's not like a foregone conclusion that your kid will get it.

If your kid is sharing hats with the Infected, then you worry (LOL 05heel HOW did you think this was not a problem?!)

Lol.  I don't know!  Because she's black?!?!? 

Black privilege? 

In my defense, she was sharing hats before the warnings and pitiful haircut.  They like to share jackets too, because of course they do.

Oh yeah, and I didn't get it, even though I share a pillow with the kid almost every night.  The lice obviously thought they were too good for me.

[anlo]

Lice is a special kind of hell. Keep checking her head. Washing and drying everything on hot couldn't hurt anything.

[dale]

The number one thing I keep on hand now is a Terminator comb and a bottle of pantene white conditioner. Each bug lays about 8 eggs per day. Keep checking. Run all her bedding and stuffed animals on high in the dryer for 30 minutes. See if you can do the same with clothes.
Keep a close eye when you comb her hair and do it a few times a day.
And vacuum the furniture and floors.
Then breathe a little easier.

[Mrs. ChanandlerBong]

Find a lice salon and get her checked ( and treated if needed!) to save your sanity.

Or you can buy the chemical free lice md. If she has it and it's bad enough, you'll know pdq when you use their otherwise useless comb.

WE did that, then went to a lice salon. That took care of the adults, the salon took care of the nits. Best $200 I've ever spent.

[Elsa]

OMG. This reminds me that the other day M told me she had "itchy scratchy bugs in her hair". While I was driving. I couldn't exactly drop everything right that second and check her, so I proceeded to feel itchy myself the whole way home.

She was fine. No bugs. No lice in her school (I asked, lol). I have no idea where she heard that shit. But OMG. I don't envy you right now

[statlerwaldorf]

I wouldn't worry that much. Make sure you check around her ears and by the nape of her neck. I have been using Fairy Tales lice repel spray and DD hasn't gotten it since even when it went around her daycare class and school.

[miso]

This thread has gone on this long without a papie page?

[bugandbibs]

I'm going to give you some advice as a MOOK with 3 kids and a school nurse: check your kids for lice once a week. It's fast and easy to do on the weekend. That way it can be caught early if they do get it. Buy a metal lice comb- everything else sucks. The preventative sprays and shampoos work pretty well. Keep hair pulled back and up/braided for school.

[8675309]

DD: "Hey Mommy! Abby went home early today because she had bugs!"

Me: "bugs? Like a stomach bug!?"

DD: "no bugs like little ones in her hair!"

Me: ((deep breathing)) "you mean lice!?"

DD: (all excited like I won a prize) YES LICE! That's it!!! Abby had LIIIIICE!"

This is how I found out there was an outbreak at DD's school. I almost lost my shit with the teacher when I found out it had been going on all week and no one thought to inform the parents.

ETA- we happen to have sprayed her hair that week with the Fairytales spray in conditioner. It's like a lice repellant so we got lucky. GO GET YOU SOME!

[CurlyQ284]

You can also use tea tree oil or lavender oil to keep lice away.

[youbetcha]

YGPM!

[textbookcase]

Lice is the worst. I made it through 11 years of parenthood until the two older girls were struck with lice at summer camp last year, and they brought it home to Bonnie. WORST. There was a lot of olive oil and combing for a week or so. 3 girls with long hair and lice = hell.

I do think you're probably okay. But...lice suck. We don't use it all the time but I keep Fairy Tails shampoo and conditioner on hand and we all use it every once in awhile.

I don't know why camp doesn't screen kids for lice...wtf. You'd think that would be part of the nurse check-in procedure.

[miniroller]

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[bugandbibs]

Apr 16, 2016 19:55:23 GMT -5 textbookcase said:

Lice is the worst. I made it through 11 years of parenthood until the two older girls were struck with lice at summer camp last year, and they brought it home to Bonnie. WORST. There was a lot of olive oil and combing for a week or so. 3 girls with long hair and lice = hell.

I do think you're probably okay. But...lice suck. We don't use it all the time but I keep Fairy Tails shampoo and conditioner on hand and we all use it every once in awhile.

I don't know why camp doesn't screen kids for lice...wtf. You'd think that would be part of the nurse check-in procedure.

Weird. When I was a camp nurse we screened kids at check in before they could go to their cabins. I just asked DD1 and she said all of her overnight camps check for lice too.

[textbookcase]

Apr 16, 2016 20:27:18 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

Apr 16, 2016 19:55:23 GMT -5 textbookcase said:

Lice is the worst. I made it through 11 years of parenthood until the two older girls were struck with lice at summer camp last year, and they brought it home to Bonnie. WORST. There was a lot of olive oil and combing for a week or so. 3 girls with long hair and lice = hell.

I do think you're probably okay. But...lice suck. We don't use it all the time but I keep Fairy Tails shampoo and conditioner on hand and we all use it every once in awhile.

I don't know why camp doesn't screen kids for lice...wtf. You'd think that would be part of the nurse check-in procedure.

Weird. When I was a camp nurse we screened kids at check in before they could go to their cabins. I just asked DD1 and she said all of her overnight camps check for lice too.

I know, super weird. I was there as a counselor, too, and they definitely didn't check for lice. Just went over allergies and any medications, etc.

[InBetweenDays]

I'm going to be the lone person to say that lice wasn't a big deal for us - but luckily we have a great lice salon nearby. We made it through almost 10 years and numerous notes about outbreaks from DDs and DSs class before DS got it. We spent $125 to take him to a special lice salon where they checked all of us and treated him. We washed his sheets, dried his blankets and stuffed animals on high heat, and vacuumed his room. We also washed our sheets even though the salon told us it really wasn't necessary. Entire thing took a few hours to deal with. They guarantee their work as long as we followed up with them after a few days.

Personally, if there wasn't an outbreak in the room and you haven't found any nits or bugs I wouldn't bother washing anything. Very few of the lice end up on pillows, etc. and they start dying (ie can't reinfest) if they don't have human contact for 12-24 hours. But, I would look to see if you have a lice salon nearby. They're worth every penny.

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