...to think the mum on Embarrassing Bodies should have

[Ladyanonymous]

...done something about her daughters nits before now?!

Good grief?!

Or am I being judgy?....

Dd1 keeps getting them, as soon as i get rid of them (using hedrin and lots of combing) they seem to come back. Maybe the child hasn't had them for 4 years constantly but on and off for 4 years. I find it hard to comb dd1's hair as she has sensory problems and finds being touched very painful (she has autism).

Dd's have never been that bad though, i treat dd's hair once a month (or more often if she needs it), sometimes she goes months with out them and then she gets them 2 or 3 times in a month.

marne bit off the point here but I work with autisic children one who also hated hair brushing/ being touched etc. Through help with an OT specializing in sensory problems she has overcome this - perhaps the same thing is available to you??? It's called sensory integration.

she did have lovely hair, but it was very thick so i can imagine quite hard to nit comb. plus they didn't show what she was like at home having it combed so we can only take the mum's word for it that she kicked and screamed.

i think the most telling comment was from one of the nit nurses when she said there were empty eggs right down towards the end of the hair shaft which had obviously been there for a long time and grown out with the hair. looking at how much they got out with one sweep of the comb it's obvious her hair hasn't been nit combed at home for a very long time. agree it did seem a little bit staged that way in order to show an extreme case, shock tactics.

where do i get one of those head hoovers from!!

this is why we need nit nurses back, of course.

btw not for nits but highly recommend the tangle teazer brush for thick, knotty hair in kids. i don't imagine it would solve sensory problems but it does make hairbrushing a lot less painful for curly haired nt dd.

Didn't watch but goodness me! I had very bad nits a*/bout 2 years ago - I have mid back length hair and nothing worked. BUT conditioner and combing every day, sometimes twice for a few weeks sorted it out. It was horrific and bloody tedious but even with long, very very fine hair (had to find tightest comb I could) I got rid. Even if for some bizarre reason this didn't work for her DD, it would have eased it no doubt - you don't just give up

Aitch- The tangle teaser brush is AMAZING! Especially good on wet hair.

Is this programme being repeated at all?

yes with lots of conditioner knots just smooth out somehow, it's amazing. might make combing easier, marne, at least in the sense that it cuts down the brushing beforehand.

also highly recommend paul mitchell detangler conditioner, god knows what's in it but it is amazingly good at removing tangles during hairwashing phase.

triple, you can watch it online, just google '4-OD'.

can understand schools not having budget for nit nurses, but is there an ethical reason why they could not ask for parent helper volunteers to do it once a term?. at dc's school, they have loads of parent helpers listening to readers, i'd happily volunteer to be a nit nurse for a day if it combats the problem.

Thanks lucykate.

no, watch it after lunch. just to warn you, there is also a scene of eye surgery, squint repair. i watched it as dd has poor vision and a squint so wanted to see what she may have to have done.

I'm sorry, Aitch. Not being a reader of the Daily Mail I don't have the same 'baggage' attached to the phrase as you do. I used the phrase as I thought it was appropriate to the subject of this thread.

I was the first poster to use it on this thread so your 'sooooo Daily Mail' really did appear to be directed at me and I suppose being picked up by another poster on choice of phrase is quite unusual on Mumsnet.
I found your comments a bit odd especially as we both agree the OP is NBU.

I'm not being thin-skinned about it but why shouldn't I challenge your commments if I think you are being unreasonable towards me?

We are posting in AIBU after all.

I wonder if you could use a household vacuum to get rid of lice?

gawd, challenge my comment all you want, it was just a sodding joke. it really wasn't directed at you at all, but i would have thought you of all people, with your hilarious cunt name, would have been able to take a bit of a poke on the irony of using lazy language to criticise lazy parenting, but clearly not.

no fun to be had here, people, move along...

You keep commenting on my name I think you like to use the word cunt a bit too much.

don't be ashamed of it, it's your revolting name.

just a shame you couldn't take a joke last night, isn't it?

Lucykate - I had that squint correction done myself - so watched back to see what was done to me! I remember it all pretty well.

To reassure you - it was very painful waking up but not screaming painful - I was surprised when she said the patients tended to scream for a couple of hours

It just wasn't that funny though...

what an extraordinarily bitchy thing to say. i really am shocked.

I thought the same about the mum.

She said she had tried combing, well maybe a couple of times but not hard enough imho. When asked by the Dr why she thought she hadn't been able to get rid of them before she muttered aomething about not having the special hoover and how in the clinc they put the girl's hair into sections to make it easier.

FFS, putting hair into sections is not rocket science, I realised it would make it easier with my DD. iT took us 2 weeks to get rid and I must have spent an hour every night doing it. There were times DD didn't want to sit still and I threatened her with shaving all her hair off.

Believe me if she'd had them longer than a couple of months I would have shaved all her hair off.

LTJ, am not sure if dd will ever have the surgery, her squint is ok when she's got her glasses on, but at least i know what happens now. i live in hope that one day her vision can be improved.

Cain - that comment about the roundup really was spectacularly out of order. You owe Aitch an apology, you really do.

How old is she? Have you done the eye exercises with the mirror and the tracing? (shudders at the memory of them)

Mind, this was the late 70s, probably more hi-tech these days!

there are plenty of ways to persuade an uncooperative child to sit still, bribery, comic, dvd. am amazed in 4 years it never occurred to her to section the hair off!