To think they should bring back nit nurses?

[Rachtoteach]

First day back after half term yesterday. A nice, lice free half-term I should add. Doing my little girl's hair for school this morn, she is caked in nits and eggs. I couldn't send her into school - how could I when it would then have just spread and I would have been as bad as the mums I moan about who dont appear to give a toss. I had to take my son in anyway so went into talk to my daughter's teacher. I expressed my upset that it has now come to the point (headlice has been going on and on and on since Sept) that I have felt the need to keep her off school. I know its not the teachers fault. She said unfortunately some parents simply dont treat/check and until whole class is treated at same time, problem will continue. So for WITW I have bought yet another treatment which has to be applied over night and washed off in the morning. I have my daughter at home (she is 5) and I am supposed to be at work. I really think they should bring back nit nurses so all children are checked and treated!!

Totally agree. Christmas was great, within the 1st week back at school DD1 and I were infested (well it felt like it!), they don;t seem to like DD2 or DH, but of course we still have to go through the comb through to make sure.

The amount of money I've spent on bloody conditioner and hedrin etc - arghhhhh!

Been all queit on the nit front, recently, though I still comb through about once a fortnight - shame not all others do.

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EssentialFattyAcid - but sure that what the original post from Rachtoteach did? She had a child teaming with Lice! However I do not think she has been a neglectful parent! I think you are being a little harsh.

The bedding and soft toys is the answer to stopping re- infestation.

My mum used to put all the pillows outside in the sun.Or in black bags in the coal-bunker(old). Strip the beds and air mattresses for as long as possible.

I bet one of those infra-cleany bed things would be great(they're always in the sunday supps) but they are really expensive.

Oh and yes bring nitty Nora back.

ThePathanKhansWitch - Nope, you are wrong. SO wrong.

It's a theory cabbage, always worked in our house..

I know they can't live in bedding as such (no blood in pillows,surely unless you use live animals for bedding), but i'm convinced the blighter latch somewhere..

No need to do bedding and so on- that's fleas. Lice only live a very short time off a human head.

And the point of nor using chemicals is nor that they are dangerous to people but that the lice very quickly become immune to them. Evolution in action!

Yup no need to change bedding,just wet comb properly every 4 days if infested

It's just not hard to keep your own kid live free unless some other bugger isn't bothering with their child and you get reinfestatioms

Lice free even

We just use Green People Kids organic lavender shampoo (it's got teatree oil in I think) and my 3 boys have never had nits. They are all still at primary - eldest is in year 5, youngest in year 1 & have been to 2 different pre-schools & 3 different primary schools in their time. I keep their hair quite short. I think it's the smell of the shampoo that keeps them at bay as we are always getting letters home, sometimes weekly. Either that or they have no friends!!

The first time I got them I was 29 and child-free! It was horrendous because when I discovered the problem I was absolutely crawling: had long, permed hair and I remember lying in the bath screaming as I put the comb through it and all these things appeared.

I am one of the people they like; every time DS gets a dose, so do I. In fact I am sitting here with a greasepit for a head after last night's Hedrin-fest

imo hedrin is waste of space as the nits are immune to the chemicals in it .what i do is keep my sons hair short and every three days dollop his head in tea tree conditioner and comb through and we have never had a problem despite several letters home from the school

I am baffled that so many people seem to think the nit nurse gets rid of nits. All a nit nurse would do would be identify some of the children who had lice or nits. Some would be missed because of time constraints. Of those identified, children whose parents can be bothered would be treated. So the effect is the same as, guess what... NO nit nurse.

The only cure is the time we are prepared to put in to combat the little bastards.

Well I suppose I think it works as I never had nits at school - long down to my bum hair, but have had them several times since I had children at school, where there is no nit nurse and children aren;t sent home.

I wonder if is more to do with the fact that we sat at desks whereas now there is more 'group working'.

We didn't put out heqds togethnover tables and boys all had short hair and girls had to keep theirs plaited or at least tied back.

What do people think the nit nurse actually did? Wave some sort of magic wand, or banish lice like some sort of low rent St Patrick?

I genuinely think it's due to cloakrooms

they can have 2 or 3 children sharing a peg at our primary and I have seen more than one monster crawling in DDs hood yet she has only ever had nit eggs once -I check every sunday and if I find a crawler I will do every other day for 10 days

last year we all got given a nit comb by the school, and a letter went out asking all families to comb on a specific sunday and again the following sunday
worked for about 4 months before the little buggers were back -via the high school!

The bedding thing is what you do to get rid of scabies mites, aiui.

I was recommended some stuff called Nitmix on MN a few years back when DD got a very hardy strain of them them from a kid in a hotel holiday club - suddenly all the children who'd been to the club and stayed on a second week were crawling in the last few days - we were all at the local chemist trying to find the equivalent of Hedrin!

Anyway, it's a combing lotion and a repellant spray - I think it's rose and geranium mainly but there may well be some other magic ingredient in it - it won't kill them, but it does make it very, very easy to comb them out of hair and the repellant works wonders, DD has never had them since despite outbreaks in her class.

Hedrin did not work for me. Derbac did it. I always treat the whole family whether I can see nits or not. Eeek! Just go to the chemist and ask for the strongest chemical they sell and then do the whole family with it. That should sort it out for a while.

I only treat the whole family when one of them has nits though. I don't do it just for fun :)

Also noticed that despite all our louse riddled children and advice how to rid them , the OP hasn't made a noise nor once been back to comment! Hmmmm chinny reckon on a reporter or summat?

What do you reckon the nit nurse debacle will be on The Wright Stuff or in the Daily Fail tomorrow?

See I was right!!! but you feckers were all in on it - yer cunts!!!

I'll have all yer names and adresses by termorrer to send poo to yer all ... ya hear me!!!