10 days it took, 10 fucking days 😡

[ElGuardiandenoche]

They’ve only been back in school for ten blooming days and we’ve got fucking nits 😡

We’ve been completely clear over all of lockdown and...they’re heerrrre!!

I wouldn’t mind but they’re Year 9 and 10. I thought we would be done with it, but
noooo!! Looks like we’re back to the weekly checks again.

We used to have a family that had 7 or 8 children. She said the kids had to just put up with them because she couldn't afford the treatment. Tea tree conditioner in Wilko's is cheap as chips. That and a nutty gritty comb is all you need. Or tea tree oil drops in any conditioner. My kids haven't had them for years thank god

I feel your pain. DD had nits constantly throughout primary school.

People say there are worse problems but actually it became a real drain. She has terrible skin problems so we were trying to avoid the harsh chemicals of hedrin etc and comb them out or fry them with hair straighteners. Every sodding night we would sit there, she would moan and wriggle. I didn't have time to spend an hour combing her very long hair through with a comb every night and I couldn't get it cut because she had nits!
In the end we sucked it up and used the chemicals to treat them. DD had nasty eczema for a week or 2 but was happy to compromise if it meant we avoided combing every night! FUCK YOU NITS!

@emptyshelvesagain
That is true, but I would still want to check that the school is complying with the 2 metre rule in classrooms.

Kudos to people who can check their own hair, including the back, for nits. My friends who are teachers all ask their partners to check and when I did a residential trip as an adult supervising children I got my DM to check when I returned.

I assumed due to social distancing they would struggle to jump that far.

I also am saddened that this means some children have spent the whole of lockdown not being seen by teachers and suffering with head lice

You just use a nit comb to check. It's not hard. A new juicy lice on the head can be whipped out quite easily.

They dont jump, they climb up the bodies heat line. The head to head only is bollocks. They're also really smart and a bunch will divide evenly between heads if given the chance. They're quite clever beasties really.

Re to clever. If the head gets to a certain capacity then some will leave. They can survive a short time without a host. Sd means bugger all when they can simply climb up you from a sofa you've sat on.

My daughter got them on repeat for years and years. I would use a nit comb every day and various treatments along the line but she would pick them up so easily. Last year age 23 she had them again - either from the London hospital she stayed in or the train journey on the way home! I do think that they love certain hair/scalp/smells...

If it’s a regular problem, you should try switching to a tea tree shampoo. Apparently lice don’t like the smell, and so it acts a repellent.

My mam swears it was her saviour when we were kids. There was 3 of us in different classes at primary school, and I think in one year we had them 5 times between us (there was a family in the school who weren’t treating them). She switched us to a tea tree shampoo and we never got them again. Doesn’t stop the need for the annoying checks as such, but at least it might stop you needing to actually treat them

[quote Ilovemypantry]**@emptyshelvesagain
That is true, but I would still want to check that the school is complying with the 2 metre rule in classrooms.[/quote]
They won’t be because it’s not possible. I work in primary and the two metre rule cannot be applied in a class of 30 children.

I do think that they love certain hair/scalp/smells...

Which is why you add tea tree oil to shampoo and conditioner

I was all for teatree and nitty gritty combing until one day I got fed up and bought hedrin once. Never had them since. You probably need a nitty gritty comb too though anyway but just kill them.

Mine had nits 3 weeks into lockdown. We live very rurally, they had not seen anyone else 🤷‍♀️

I feel your pain. My two were in school 6 days before they complained of itchy bums... f**king THREADWORM. Not a single dose of calpol, ovex or pharmaceutical was needed for a whole six months but in the last 2 weeks, they’ve had coughs, colds plus the worms...

splodgetastic
As I’m sure you are aware bits prefer dry clean hair, the lice cannot grip dirty greasy hair to lay the nots which is why some cultures use hair oils.... I have very dry (curly) hair and used to catch them weekly till About 13 when I started using hairspray

@LifesTooShortForYourNonsense snap! Mine started scratching their heads a month into lockdown. Initially I thought there’s no way this can be nits... they’ve not been in school or seen other kids for ages. But yes it was nits! It appears the eggs can lie dormant for quite a while before hatching, and so my daughter must have caught them at school just before lockdown.

You can get headlice repellant spray that can be used regularly to form.a barrier against them.

You can get headlice repellant spray that can be used regularly to form.a barrier against them

It’s call tea tree oil. Manufactures put in in a spray for those who can’t manage it themselves and charge you four times the price.

People who say it’s impossible to check yourself, if you wet comb with masses of conditioner and wipe the conditioner off the nit comb with loo paper you will see them as little greyish oval blobs in the conditioner.

It’s highly unlikely they’ve both caught it at the same time? 10 days is not enough to see lots of lice in the hair, let alone pass it to their sibling. I bet they already had it before school started.

B me mi

How the hell do you sort nits yourself, esp with long hair?? I mean, not impossible of course but what a twonk saying they should be old enough to sort it themselves.
However firstly those who reckon they 'only' like dirty hair, load of tosh, they are the one thing in this country that doesn't discriminate! lol
Secondly, just because kids have nits, doesn't mean they haven't been treated, a lot of over the counter stuff these days isn't half as effective... Lice have developed resistance to the chemicals in the most common over the counter treatments. A study published in 2016 shows 98% of lice are now resistant to over the counter shampoos and many prescription treatments as well!

Lastly, they can't jump, and with social distancing being really important atm, maybe you need to tell your kids not to get so close to others as they can only crawl from one person to the next! So must have taken a few selfies or been hugging their mates...sad times when we have to warn our kids not to do this. :-(

(Worked in a few schools back when we could treat the kids ourselves!!) xx

I'm in my 20s and work in a school and was itching so did the whole treatment thing. And my mum still went over my scalp with a fine comb. It's really hard to look at you're own head in that much detail especially the awkward back bit.
Didnt turn out to be bits just a sensitive scalp. Also due to my fine hair never had nits before so didn't really know what I was doing l.

Do they use leave in conditioner on their hair

I really noticed a lot of kids with long hair dont tie it back anymore. All the kids on the telly seem to have long swishy sheets of hair just waiting for lice to leap from.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/head-lice-and-nits/