Are nits still a problem ?

[Cooldryplace]

Just idle musing, my children are too old for me to know, but has less contact and an attempt to keep our distance reduced nits or are schools still crawling?

DS is 15 years old. 15! and He's got nits. Got them from his girlfriend. Still going around I'm afraid, and there's no age discrimination when in comes to nits.

DD (9) got them around Christmas, how on earth she managed that I have no idea. She has thick, waist length hair, took 3 months, £££ in treatments and hours and hours and hours of combing to get rid of them. They are invincible I fear.

You'd think so wouldn't you but nope, seems worse this year than previously!

Just had them come home with one child once!!

When I was a kid I had them constantly in primary!

No idea how but they are still around!

@QwertyGirly

DS is 15 years old. 15! and He's got nits. Got them from his girlfriend. Still going around I'm afraid, and there's no age discrimination when in comes to nits.

Mine are adults. I know they can get them, but I probably wouldn't know about it if they did

I thought the little fuckers may have died out but nope, we got the nit letter last week.

The minute the schools opened in March here my son got the ‘nit letter’ home. Thankfully he escaped this time. Even a pandemic won’t get rid of the bastards!

As soon as my son's school reopened last year, we had a letter in the first week saying that a child in the class had headlice.

My 9 year old DD told me the other day that she can ‘see nits crawling in at least three people’s hair from where I sit in class’

I promptly checked her!!

Even a pandemic won’t get rid of the bastards! you'd think with all that isolating they'd die off. I don't get it!

My heads gone all itchy

Yeah. My DD had them at Christmas and it was a particular nightmare because I only realised on Christmas Day of all days. Had to sit raking through her hair with a comb in between cooking the roasties and parsnips . Went to the supermarket the following day for hedrin to get rid of the fuckers for good. Haven’t had them in the house since, touch wood.

DD never had them in Primary, in spite of being a spiral-ringletted mop top.
Between 12 and 13 she went through a phase of hugging and cuddling friends and got nits at least three times! I went from anxiously throwing her stuff away (pillows, bedding, woolly hats, hairbrushes) to boil washing and finally just chucking everything into a plastic bag in the freezer for a few days.
They’re nasty, resistant little buggers and I did use strong chemicals to get rid of them but in the 21st century they aren’t a sign of poverty or low hygiene. On the contrary they’re often picked up in ballet schools!

Btw I also picked up nits from the maternity unit pillows.
Grim.

DD11 got them last September when she went back to school in Y6. Couldn't believe it when I found them in her hair! How on earth she got them I'll never know. She's not even a huggy child, she's very keen on personal space even before social distancing!

Resistant to many chemicals nowadays so people are reliant on suffocating them with dimeticone, the active ingredient for most of the oily sprays, mousses, lotions.
Their survival fascinates me but I am not surprised given how teeny tiny they are at the start of their life cycle. You really do need to know what you are doing, what to look for and become a dab hand at combing or take a perverse delight in getting the little buggers.
Hedrin's protect mango spray is lovely. Vosene and tea-tree shampoos also good. I am combing every week and using the above in the hope we don't get them again. The PTA would make so much cash if they charged for and organised whole-class nit combing parties.

Yep. Yr 6 son came home with them a week ago.