I know what I am doing to try and keep them at bay - combing with conditioner and a kitty gritty every other night (all of us to make sure), I put argon oil or tea tree oil though dds hair to make it harder for the little arsehole to attach eggs too, I use full marks every couple of weeks on all of us, dd goes to school with tight plats.
But when I comb, there are often a couple of fully grown ones that have come from another child’s head.
There are children at her school where you can see lice infestations.
I have spoken to those parents (in a lighthearted, roundabout way, or you’d get punched), saying things like, “God, aren’t these nits awful! Are you always having to get rid of them too?” Most of the time just getting ignored, or just told “no”.
I’ve spoken to the teachers and TAs and it turns out they are just as exasperated as me with it all and getting lice constantly themselves but say they can’t do anything as a lot of the parents think the school is against them anyway and pushing the issue in the past has made things like attendance worse. They don’t even send out the “there is a case of nits in your child’s class” email anymore as it makes some situations worse.
I’m so sick of it. I’m sick of having to battle with my toddler every other night combing though her hair just incase.
And I am sick of the parents who do jack shit about it. I’m also sick of living in this shithole surrounded by people who don’t give a monkeys that their children are covered in lice, which is just the tip of the iceberg anyway, and I can’t change schools because they are all full of people like this here. But we are stuck here for now.