Bl@@dy nits!!!!!!!!

[annelise]

I can so relate to this Scandichic and others..

– There was a period in my boys' childhood where we would regularly find nits (lice we call them here, a more 'unpleasant' word but still the same).

And it always irked me that we were the only parents who reported back to the classroom teacher that they were around so that other parents might be warned to be on the look-out. They must surely have known unless they were rather unobservant, hmm – but maybe it was still a kind of social stigma at the time. (Well, admittedly I didn't like to report back, so yes definitely still a social stigma hanging around there in the 70'es - but I nevertheless did).

At one time – before the class was going on a camp – it had even come so far that parents were warned that on the morning of departure to camp, a school nurse would come around and check each and every child for lice. If found in a child, that child would not go. Tough measures but it seemed to help, all children were declared free and that kind of stopped the 'epidemic' (for a time anyway) …

annelise

 

[anna29]

My granddaughter had them in march and reading these posts it has given me .
Got an itch need to scratch now !

 

[sanguine]

Don't breed them ....lol exterminate ....I used to love dr who and like saying that

Nits or kids?

 

[Kat100]

Nits or kids?

Well that is a good question rod lol x

 

[Debmcgee]

I volunteered at a school last year and spotted two kids with nits but I wasn't allowed to tell the parents!! It's all gone mad!


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[jesta1865]

i know of one lot of kids where when the parents were told they had nits, they used dog anti flea shampoo to get rid of them, needless to say it didn't.

 

[Debmcgee]

Oh dear


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[Giverny]

I volunteered at a school last year and spotted two kids with nits but I wasn't allowed to tell the parents!! It's all gone mad!


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Diagnosed prediabetic Easter 2014. Just left to get on with it, no guidance or help from GP. Every day I'm learning something new.

Isn't it just daft? Surely as a parent you would WANT to know if your child has nits - saves them getting bullied for it by the other kids right? I know no parent wants to hear their kid has passed nits on to their friends but how else are they supposed to know!?

Beggars belief!!

 

[Scandichic]

I volunteered at a school last year and spotted two kids with nits but I wasn't allowed to tell the parents!! It's all gone mad!


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Diagnosed prediabetic Easter 2014. Just left to get on with it, no guidance or help from GP. Every day I'm learning something new.

I am an awful teacher. Because I tell them. Most people want to know. Beaurocracy gone mad.

 

[Scandichic]

I can so relate to this Scandichic and others..

– There was a period in my boys' childhood where we would regularly find nits (lice we call them here, a more 'unpleasant' word but still the same).

And it always irked me that we were the only parents who reported back to the classroom teacher that they were around so that other parents might be warned to be on the look-out. They must surely have known unless they were rather unobservant, hmm – but maybe it was still a kind of social stigma at the time. (Well, admittedly I didn't like to report back, so yes definitely still a social stigma hanging around there in the 70'es - but I nevertheless did).

At one time – before the class was going on a camp – it had even come so far that parents were warned that on the morning of departure to camp, a school nurse would come around and check each and every child for lice. If found in a child, that child would not go. Tough measures but it seemed to help, all children were declared free and that kind of stopped the 'epidemic' (for a time anyway) …

annelise

Hej!
I think the eggs are nits and lice are lice but usually people say nits and mean the lot because if you've got the lice you have the eggs and vice versa. Feel like scratching at the thought of them. Urgh!

 

[RosieLKH]

When I'm working with kids I bug bust my hair with a nit comb after every wash. I find wearing 'product' of some kind helps. They don't seem to like a light spray of hairspray, or a coating of gel.

 

[Ambersilva]

Found one more egg this morning in her fringe! Trouble is we know 3 lots of people who regularly don't treat. Why??!!!!! My brother in law used to use t-tree oil and conditioner! Poor kid never managed to get rid of them! It's my youngest who generally gets them although to be fair she's probably had them 4 times in 2 years. Worms! Yuck! Youngest is going to school with chip pan hair! I have washed it thoroughly but it always takes 2 washes.

The way to get the oil out of the hair is to put shampoo directly on the hair, then rub the shampoo all over the hair and gradually add water to soften the lather. Keep adding water until you achieve a soft loose lather. Rinse thoroghly to remove lather.

One way to minimise attacks is to keep long hair tied up and to shampoo less often. The little adult lice jump from head to head when children put their heads together. Lice prefer nice clean hair to greasy hair.

 

[Scandichic]

The way to get the oil out of the hair is to put shampoo directly on the hair, then rub the shampoo all over the hair and gradually add water to soften the lather. Keep adding water until you achieve a soft loose lather. Rinse thoroghly to remove lather.

One way to minimise attacks is to keep long hair tied up and to shampoo less often. The little adult lice jump from head to head when children put their heads together. Lice prefer nice clean hair to greasy hair.

I put the shampoo on first but didn't add water bit by bit. Will try that next time!

 

[Ambersilva]

J

I put the shampoo on first but didn't add water bit by bit. Will try that next time!

Just make sure you put on enough shampoo to thoroughly cover the oily stuff. The reason for adding the water gradually is so that you can get the shampoo lathered up to a soft and bubbly consistency that becomes easier to rinse out. If you try to rinse out shampoo that has not produced a lather it leaves a residue on the hair and scalp and a feeling that they are not clean.