Nits AGAIN! Ask school to pin point the children and speak directly to their parents

[pingu2209]

I have spent ages gettng rid of the nits my children came home from school with. Okay this is just the way it goes - children get nits. But it keeps happening.

We are now on our fourth bout! Each time I do 1 night of hedrin and combing and then another 7 days later. This gets rid of the nits in our house.

The cost of hedrin is huge!

Should I ask the teacher to speak to the parents of children they know have nits? It isn't fair as the class keeps getting them.

Gobbledegook - that's just not the case. If there is something wrong with q child, you tell the parent. If they have fallen, you tell the parent, if they have lost a lunchbox, you tell the parent. There is absolutely no difference with saying to a parent "I noticed your dd doing quite a lot of scratching today. Please could you just check their hair".

Madness not too. I'm not suggesting you do it in the middle of the playground in front of all the other parents, but there are definitely ways of doing it appropriately!

DS1's teacher came out of the class on Monday and said "Right, that's it, all of you nit comb and check every day for two weeks, let's all beat this problem" etc. Brilliant, I thought - we can finally be rid of them. Because I get rid of them and then they get them back over and over. And DS gives them to DD (takes 40 mins to do her hair every time, fabulous).

And the reaction of the other parents? Oh, it's not my child, I've never seen anything in their hair. They're not scratching, it can't be them. My child's hair is clean/short/in plaits/curly/straight/dirty so it can't be them.

Sorry I forgot. All your children have MAGIC MIDDLE CLASS HAIR THAT IS CLEVERLY DESIGNED TO REPEL NITS. So don't worry about checking them. It's fine. I'll just waste approximately four hours this week. Thanks.

I hate to tell you this, OP, and please don't take offence, but you might actually be the repeat offender! Lice lay one egg a day, and the egg takes 5 days to hatch, so if your boys are crawling with them, you're simple not getting rid of them when you treat.

Boys are far more susceptible to headline as the lice walk from head to head and down the shaft to towards the scalp. As boys have shorter hair, they have a shorter distance to travel. Girls with long hair get lice far less often.

(I used to work for the manufacturer of a headline treatment.)

Oh and they all said poor you nora, with three to comb. I said WTF? 5 to comb, me and DH get checked too. And they said Oh, I've never had nits/don't need to check/have magic middle class nit repelling hair. FFS. They're right, it must be the poor children.

When my dd was in reception, her best friend was the Nit Purveyor. According to his mother- a very dear friend of mine. - he never had nits and couldn't get them because he hadn't been vaccinated and thus his system was so strong it would reject them.

Not useful- just an anecdote I just remembered.

seeker there are no words!! How did you respond to that??

No headlice lay 3-10 eggs a day.

Bagofholly I have 3 dc 2 boys and a girl.The girl has long hair she continuously gets nits from school,the boys rarely do.She gives it them.

At our school it's far more of a girl issue than a boy issue.

Must get my kids some of this nit-rejecting stuff. Do you think they sell it in the same shop as the magice middle class nit-repelling hair?

Grandparents should be checked too. I was told by the school nurse that as we get older, our scalps get less sensitive and we are less likely to feel the itching, and therefore, if children spend time with them regularly, the grandparents should be checked and treated too.

Dd managed to pick up head ice when she was about 9 months old. It must have been at the toddler group or childminder. Anyway, she managed to pass them on to my very lovely, beautifully turned out, utterly horrified MIL who then had to be treated.

Op yanbu

As I've said frequently we comb continuously all 3 when we have an infestation.It's nigh on impossible to eradicate it.We comb nightly for weeks,wipe the comb after each swipe.

Schools need to send kids home end of.

The Nitty Gritty comb is waaaay too time consuming for modern families with 2 working parents,homework etc.It's very difficult to give combing the proper time and method it needs so people just do their best which isn't good enough to get rid of nits.

Schools need to recommend an immediate treatment.Nits would be a rare occurrence so kids would rarely need treatment.

I'd gladly pick up mine.

Good point re grandparents. My mum got them from DS last time. And hair can't be too short for nits. Social worker friend has seen nits in eyebrows.

Is it just me who loves combing the little feckers out. DS2 had them for the first time in September when he went back to school, DS1 has never had them.

I loved sitting him down and combing them out every night for a good few days, very satisfying, like picking a zit

I do find it quite satisfying to pop the eggs.

I was considering handing DS over to the gorillas at the zoo as the mummy seems to like eating them very much.

3 of mine have them at the moment. I've told the school office - who did nothing. So I've written to each of their teachers. If that doesn't get the nit letter out in book bags, then I'm considering emailing the class lists - because I'm spending ages combing their hair and the thought of them getting them straight back again does my itchy head in.

Claimedbyme- I looked aft him one night a week and used to comb him with mine! It was no use talking to her about it. And she believed so many bonkers things I wouldn't have known where to start.

mrsHeffley- no such treatment exists.