Can I ask if anyone has found an effective preventative measure?
DD spent most of last year with them. It felt like I spent the entire year combing and combing and combing. We'd just get clear, 2 weeks later there'd be a letter and off we'd go again. She was clear over Easter (we did three weeks of combing every two nights and had been clear for the last week before the holidays) and a week after school starting again, she had them.
Fine all over the summer. Back at school for three weeks, and checked tonight, and yup, got them again. Only two, and big buggers, which I assume they are recent arrivals, and I am hoping we got them before they laid eggs but we are now on for another few weeks of combing.
Thing is, it's time consuming. If it was once or twice a year, fine, but it's three or four times each term. And it's expensive. I've tried the Hedrin but as they return so fast I've given up and gone back to just combing. But I go through so much conditioner that it's not cheap either. Add in the changes of bed linen and I'm losing patience.
Younger DD doesn't seem to pick them up which is good.
But what would you do at this point? I'm assuming there's a kid in her class who is just never checked. Would you talk to the teacher? I've googled it and tea tree oil comes up as a preventative. Is it any good?
WIBU to wrap her head in clingfilm each morning to stop them getting to her??!!