To check DS's friends for nits when they come to his party?

[chicaguapa]

Obviously IABU. But DS has got bloody nits again after just FOUR days of being back at school. It has to be one of his friends as they all sit together on the same table for most of the day, plus play together at break/lunch.

I have mentioned it to the mums I know (in a "I'm completely exasperated" kind of way) as we all got an email about it and I just get crap responses saying 'DC never gets nits, poor you". Well someone else has them!

Anyway, he has a party this weekend and I want to sit there and go through all their hair to see who's got them. I'll at least be watching to see who's scratching as I'm beyond fed up.

He doesn't have an infestation and he doesn't have any eggs.

I combed but didn't find any lice. He was itching though and with the email from school saying they're going round, I just assume I missed a canny
bugger. I treated him anyway and will look again on Monday and treat again next week.

He didn't meet up with any friends over half term.

I'd love to send him to school in a hat and explain why. The teachers must know who's got them.

Teachers are also terrified of getting them.

YANBU but YAB a bit weird . And now I'm itching, thinking about nits

I'm afraid you cannot go through other children's heads without their parents permission. I do feel for you. Not too sure how it works in UK schools, but could you talk to DS teacher about the situation? Would the school be able to organise an inspection of all the kids in the class? When I was in school (long years ago, not in UK), we had regular checkups from the school nurse. They would check every single kid and then deal with their parents. I guess, you should go through every possibility where else DS could have picked it up and if definitely the only option left is the school, then talk to them. I would imagine they cannot ignore it?

My dd got lice repeatedly over the past three years. Drove me crazy. Cunningly enough, now she's at a different school she's been clear of them. One parent actually blamed my dd for giving them to her dd which was a bit unfair as we all got a text on the same day but notice the same thing is still happening in that year group at that school and my dd is no longer there so I expect she's blaming someone else now.

Fill the piñata with sweets and insecticide.

Set up a bobbing for apples game in a tub of sheep dip.

reni2!!!!

Ooh ooh, super soaker fight filled with Hedrin.

You need to get party hats and line the inside with Hedrin. Party poppers filled with tea tree might be useful too.

I find one lot of lotion and two lots of nitty gritty are not enough.

Nitty gritty every two days for two weeks works

So you didn't find any eggs or adults? Perhaps he is itching because his scalp is raw from all the chemicals!!

Best way I've found is to do a quick comb every other day. Easier with ds than dd!

nit combs in the party bags

If he was clear of nits and lice and now has adult live he definitely picked them up from someone in school. Someone who's adult lice crawled from their head to your son's.

It's a pain but all you can do is keep combing and treating.

DS had nits for 3 pissing months. Wrecked my head. Passed them to me twice. Used every product known to man on the bastard things (amounting to in excess of £80). You only have to leave one in there and you may as well have not bothered with the whole kerfuffle. Then x days passed and bingo no itching. Hurrah they'd died a death. So DS decided to bring more home. And off we went again. I was riddled with them, wanted to rip my head off. I sat at work one day and after a giant critter dropped on to my desk in front of me, I sat (in an otherwise empty office) and went through my hair with my fingernails in a grip and dragged eggs and crawlers out. I was nearly crying but it was an incredibly productive day. Took bloody hours.

If I get them again I am going to get a Sinead O'Connor.

I'm afraid, the above aside, I have no advice but I feel your pain.

I didn't find the chemical treatments much use because even if I treated my kids there would be a reinfestation from someone at school who hadn't been treated. The combing continued periodically for years. I was so glad when my daughters were finally old enough to stop picking them up. And then my 15 year-old did a week's work experience in a nursery and we had to go through it all again .

Why must the teachers know who has them? That's yet another ridiculous MN suggestion about teachers. We have so much time on our hands during the day that we sit there staring at children waiting for someone to scratch their heads...