Not checking child for nits after letter

[Motherwell91]

Since septemner i have had to do several lots of treatment for my child and spoken to the school several times. They send out the letters advising parents to treat their child. For the mums to then come out with "o my daughter has blonde hair i would see them straight away... or "well they shouldnt have got rid of the nit nurse im not paying for treatment. Aibu to say that they are being twats and shoukd check there children !!! My dd poor scalp is do dry from the constant treatments and conditioner inbetween. If any of you have any good tips on repelling them aswell that would be great

We use the Vosene detangler in ours every morning (dd’s are 2&5; nursery and Y1) and have been since dd1 started nursery. We’ve never had any nits (yet!) but plenty of letters/texts saying there has been several cases in their classes. Nice smell too, if you like lemons!

Ugh you brought back memories. My 24 year old dd used to get them all the time in primary school.
She had long fair hair and eczema too
I wish parents did check their kids as I hated using the treatment. Then we had to do the whole eczema treatment shampoo thing again and my poor dd was only 6 she got sick of it.

Oh and she's allergic to a million things. Including tea tree oil

You're absolutely right. The mums are being twats, the dads are completely blameless. It's all the women's fault

My daughter has long fine hair. Where its thin it feels like the comb doesnt grip well do takes twice aslong. Her scalp has gone very dry so i need to try somthing more natural so will be using some of the suggestions above. When does this nit phase end. She is 5 now?

Why are we making this a gender thing??? The coments from the parents were from MOTHERS....

My dc didnt get any until secondary school!- sorry but think it depends in other parents treating it and nothing ti do with age! Its rotten for kids to itch from them. Its neglectful to just leave it. Some parents are lazy and selfish.

My eldest dd has caught them once she is p5 and youngest once shes p3 and our school only put a reminder in the monthly news letter. I contacted all the mums i knew and let them know, it was easy to see who had been treated in the playground.
Since then i nitty gritty comb every sunday night and use the nitty gritty repellent spray which is very good.

Those chemical treatments are quite toxic.,hope some alternative works for you. People are selfish, perhaps ignorant

Toxic? Not modern treatments. They work by smothering lice. Not poisoning them.
Alternative. Comb every three days for 31 days. Carefully. And follow instructions re washing hair and conditioner etc.

21 days!!

If you cant do it already learn how to french plait (i learned on you tube) then once the plaits are done spray the headlice repellant spray let dry, then a fine layer of hairspray. I know its not ideal but it helps keep the buggers away. My dd had them twice but once we started doing this as recomended by a friend we never got them again.

@MemoryOfSleep the person who told me about it used malt. I suspect my mum used whatever was in the cupboard. Balsamic, cider... ☺

My HV advised me against the special nit treatments. She wasn't entirely happy about putting somewhat toxic chemicals on little kids' heads. She recommended conditioner and a bog standard nit comb. I used to check DC every Sunday night and if they had the little buggers I'd do it every couple of nights until they were gone. Never had a problem getting rid of them and used very cheap conditioner.

I have the kid who usually gets blamed by one utter bitch of a mother when the nit letters go round. Just because she has naturally flyaway hair and looks dishevelled because of her SN issues, the automatic assumption is that's the kid who has nits (mother has a history of bullying and setting her child to bullying my kid).

Ironically my kid had them ONCE last year, treated the same day the landing party was spotted and repeated conditioner combed until we were 100% sure they were clear... during the bloody school holidays as well! (Came home with them on the Friday night they broke up)

Best thing that worked for us was conditioner and Nitty Gritty comb which was 100 x better than a normal nit comb.

Don’t forget to wash her bedding and remove all soft toys as they can also live on them as well. I did this for about a month.

That’s was the only way I managed to get rid of them a finally after what felt like years of conditioning and combing. And one of my dd has very long, thick curly hair and it would take hours.

My ds didn't get the normal itching from nits (not everyone does) so I would only find out he'd been infested once I had caught them from him and my scalp started itching badly

After treating him, I took to giving my own - long, very fine and very thick - a conditioning treatment and comb once a week. That way I could tell if he needed treating

That was a long time ago as he is now 18

When DC were little I used to use tea tree oil to keep them away and it worked - a quick spritz with a spray bottle with a little bit of the oil diluted in water at the base of their scalp but putting it in the actual shampoo sounds like a good idea, too.

Same child in my dd class keeps coming in with them. It's always this one child that's the instigator and pretty sure they aren't getting treated as her mum made a point of stating the treatment isnt free anymore.. Totally no need for it and actually it's pretty grim!

Just read lavender oil works like teatree so maybe look for an oil shes not allergic too.

Vosene, nutty gritty comb and hair up religiously. Fluffy fringes and thick hair seem to be an issue. Also they need to learn about personal space with friends and not touching heads.

Am I the only one who finds de- lousing satisfying? I quite miss them. Disclaimer: I have boys so its been few and far between. I don't think I'd enjoy having to constantly treat.

Have to say though that if you keep finding them in your child's hair week after week, and then the baby has caught them, the parent who isn't tackling the nits properly in the class is you. Sorry. I have been that parent too. I kept thinking I was getting rid of them but I wasn't, and back they kept coming. Took a while for me to realise.