To not do nit checks twice weekly?

I don't think all the combing being discussed is necessary but I do brush and style ny children's hair every day and didn't notice nits until the itching started. I have a blonde child and brown-haired child and didn't see them in either.

I'm with you Op, I check my kids heads, by nape of neck behind ears etc daily. But I wouldn't do a full comb through with nit comb etc. unless I was told of a infestation or they were itchy etc.

We've never had nits here.

Mine have never had nits, I always blow dried their hair until they were about ten

It sounds like the OP’s school has an infestation they can’t shift so it needs extreme measures. My daughter had them once or twice in the whole of primary school. We treated and that was that. We plait her hair every morning so we would notice during that if there were nits or eggs. If there is not an issue twice weekly nit combing is excessive.

Depends on the school, some schools are infested.
Neither of my DC ever had nits.
They've clean hair, so far managed to avoid them. We probably get a letter once a year to check.
Use teatree shampoo regularly.

We have one year group riddled with head lice. We know who it is, they don't comb their daughter's hair because they are teaching her responsibility and not making her look after her hair. Lack of action and consequence thereof. Except the consequences hurt us. We comb weekly here as a prevention.

im always on the lookout for them when brushing hair in the mornings but there's no way in hell I've got time to do a full conditioner and nit comb check weekly never mind daily. I probably do it every 1-2 months or obviously if they mention being itchy.

Yes, this. We got away with no nits for about the first 8 years of my first child's life, they seem to circulate my second child's class permanently so we're on very regular checks.

I have three DC and I've never checked their hair for nits. The youngest is 16 now. None of them ever got nits.

The thing i have discovered this week is that you can’t always see them. No amount if combing has revealed the little bastards

the only way we know my daughter has them is the incessant itching

And the only time we saw an actual louse was after we applying headrin gel, leaving on all night and then we found a few dead ones when combing

I check once a week with conditioner and a nitty gritty but we have someone who has had nits for years so they keep cropping up.

Some are definitely more prone , my son had short hair but was a magnet for them especially in the lower years of school . The girls less so even with long hair because it was plaited everyday and also used tea tree shampoo. Tea tree definitely helps , I'm scratching now thinking about them

Your kids’ school sounds clatty

Some areas have absolute ongoing plagues of nits. Some just really don’t! I have lived in both kinds and adjusted behaviour accordingly!

I don’t know a single person who checks their kids heads for nits unless they see them scratching.

Mumsnet is fucking mental. Talking about it ruining Christmas? Wtf? Sometimes kids get nits 🤷🏻‍♀️

My kid’s never had them at all and if he did it’s not the end of the world. No one I know is regularly nit checking their kids. Mumsnet is batshit as usual.

"Wildlife" love it!!! 😁

We have only ever had one infestation of nits in our house and my eldest, who has autism, still talks years later about having his hair raked through with the comb. He has very thick wavy hair and it was pure torture for him (and me!) I can’t even begin to imagine how he would cope with having it done regularly.

I do a cursory check after bath time but that’s as far as it goes. We’ve only had a couple of messages ever from nursery regarding nits. If classmates were always crawling with headlice then I’d be checking every day but thankfully everyone seems on top of it

I don’t check with a comb but I do check their heads every day

We are currently amidst an outbreak in yr 6. The first since yr R. The teacher says half the class have nits. So I'm nitty gritty combing with conditioner every other day and doing treatments if we find anything, but I suspect many parents aren't doing anything. And so the cycle continues!

I was going to say there must be very thin haired children on here, or people aren’t doing it properly. My DDs hair would take 45 mins to get through.

These threads always make me itch 😂

I work with kids and when I’m working with kids who have lice I will comb every 4-5 days and the infestation can’t take hold. Tea tree shampoo and French braids essential.

I don’t comb my kids hair unless I’m suspicious. Check behind ears and nape of neck at least twice a week, generally when I’m doing their hair anyway.

I expect with an email like that they have sent it to everyone but it’s aimed specifically at one or two families they cannot single out. Combe them properly this week so you can be sure they don’t have them before you assume they don’t. It’s incredibly frustrating hearing parent of kids I know have nits go on about how their kids never get them. (Also if you have them make mum AND DAD comb too to amount of preschooler mums who can’t understand why they can’t get rid of bits when they don’t treat dad is insane!). If your kids dont get them regularly they probably are not friends with the child/ren in question and you certainly won’t be the family this email was aimed at

It’s entirely possible to go years without any nit outbreaks in the class. Sometimes people don’t check much because they don’t happen at all often - not because everyone is checking all the time.

I do it every week while they are in the bath having hair washed

So far they have never had nits, but then i think everyone round our way is super dedicated to the nitty gritty.

If your do are itchy due to nits (obviously there are other reasons), then you've got an issue . You dont get itchy off 1 or 2, you get itchy off an infestation.
I would do our sons at least once a week, my Dsis did her daughter's nightly as there was an 'epidemic' in her class with a parent who obviously wasn't checking/treating their child.

When i was teaching my DH would check my hair at least weekly and thoroughly, thoroughly when I had a hairdressers appointment. That was a real fear for me.