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Are you one of those mums who doenst bother getting rid of nits?

67 replies

charliecat · 12/09/2005 12:15

Whats your excuse

OP posts:
Frizbe · 12/09/2005 20:13

Remember my gran telling me once, how she stormed into my mums school and demanded that my mother be moved to another desk in the class, as the girl whom she was placed next to always had nits, and my gran having 6 kids was totally fed up of getting rid of them, for my mother to re infest the house every other day! so in certain cases, maybe public humiliation gets things done!

stitch · 12/09/2005 20:21

we got nits when ds2 was 11 months, and i was 6 weeks pregnant. i used the chemicals on my hair, making dh go out and find a pharmacy that sold the stuff on a saturday evening as i was just soooooooooo disgusted by the creepy crawly things.
was scared of using the chemicals on ds's hair, so shaved it off in the bath...take that you little buggers....
on monday i had to explain to everyone in the playground why he had no hair.

a long long time ago, in what is now called yr5 their was a girl im my class with long thick, black hair, always tied in a braid with masses of oil in it. who always had nits. and i mean always. drove mom mad as she was forever delousing my and my sisters.

Earlybird · 12/09/2005 20:25

So far, we've been lucky to avoid nits, and dd is 4.6. Must admit I know nothing about them. As far as I know, none of dd's friends have had them either. How do you get them? What causes them?

SleepySuzy · 12/09/2005 20:26

You catch them from others, jumpy little things.

SleepySuzy · 12/09/2005 20:27

headlice info

nikkie · 13/09/2005 20:03

My dd1 has especially thick and curly hair which takes around an hour to wash and comb, for about 6 months I was having to do this alternate days as she kept getting nits, and with three of us in schools it was spread all ways as we weren't keeping up.
One child I worked with had nits for about 6 months and Mum din't get rid of them so the head sent the hv to her house, once she came to school with her head shaved and now we have permission to treat her hair in school.
BTW you can get lotion on perscription(we used to use the £10 a bottle one)

QueenOfQuotes · 13/09/2005 20:06

I have a quick check when I wash the boys hair - but then it's so short doesn't take long - and wouldn't be too difficult to spot

bobbybob · 13/09/2005 20:09

We keep getting the notes from Pre School, but so far ds has been spared. His hair is washed every day in diprobase, which is petroleum based - I am wondering if that puts them off.

foxinsocks · 13/09/2005 20:13

I worry that I am the mum that doesn't get rid of them because everyone the kids play with has had nits except for us! In fact, the other family we walk to school with had nits so badly, she said you could see them walking all over her eldest girl's fringe.

I'm not sure I really know what I'm looking for. Loads of people say they are really hard to spot but I've never seen anything move in either dd or ds's hair but then maybe I'm not looking properly.

KateF · 13/09/2005 20:19

I'm always paranoid that I've missed them because we've escaped so far (dd1 just started yr1.) I get a hairdresser friend to check for me as she's seen plenty of the little b***s.

dropinthe · 13/09/2005 20:22

FOX-they are very easy to spot-I really don't think you can miss them!

stitch · 13/09/2005 20:24

fox, you can see them easily, but even if you dont, you can see the kids constantly itching.

Empress · 13/09/2005 20:28

Yeeuck, they are horrible, but only time i've seen them they were absolutely teeny, you could hardly see them, 4 or 5 tiny little specks on the scalp. started all the conditioner/nit comb business straight away, never found any eggs, went back to normal washing after a month & never seen since, TOUCH WOOD! maybe we got sterilised nits or they were just very socially responsible nits, i could never work out why there were no eggs.

waterfalls · 13/09/2005 20:31

Appartently you could have head lice for upto 3 months before you start itching.

Vinega will get rid of them and prevent them.

myturn · 13/09/2005 20:32
gingerbear · 13/09/2005 20:38

Old pedant here, but the nits are the eggs, tis lice that scurry and jump. (Closely related to Coddy's crabs)

debutante · 13/09/2005 20:47

I don't think the eggs are easy to spot at all unless you have white blonde hair. I think they are getting so bloody resistant they wear camouflage

kid · 13/09/2005 20:48

I know someone that said 'whats the point in treating them, X only gets them again anyway!'

serenity · 13/09/2005 20:50

We've never had them either and DS1 is in Yr3 now. It could be because both Ds1 and 2 have really short hair, but we've spent a lot of time at BFs house and she and her Dkids seem to get reinfested on a regular basis (it drives her barmy, she definitely believes that there are parents in her school who just don't bother) We don't tend to get bitten by mozzies either, so maybe we just smell/taste bad

Thomcat · 13/09/2005 20:52

What! Can you imagine a mum doing that? Lottie came home from school with them so I told the teachers and all the parents. Every single mum said 'he/she hasn't got them' and I though 'piss off, one of em has as she either got them here or has given them out here, either way, you're kid will ahve nits. I got rid of them that night with the lotion. Weeks later took her to hairdressers and she said she had nits and when I lloked there were no visable crawling nits but the eggs, a first for me. We were going on hoilday that night so spent day 1 of holiday treating nits again!

waterfalls · 13/09/2005 20:54

It is often the bite marks on the nape of the neck that suggest they have head lice, or behind the ears.

kid · 13/09/2005 20:54

my kids haven't had them yet. DD is in year 2 and DS has just started nursery.

My nephew got them, so did my sister (she will so glad I shared that!)

crunchie · 13/09/2005 21:09

Well I seemed to spend the whole summer holiday teating nits DD2 got them and we combed them all out, then did the eggs on dry hair and kept doing it everyday or two for 10 days. Did seem to wok, however one week in and nits have appeared again. I did them on the off chance, the news had a feature about nit, so I thought I'd do it. No itching, but lo and behold about 10 big fat f**rs. DD1 had nothing again!! So I did the combing, checked for eggs 2 or 3 and will comb and check again everyday, or it will be the lotion

crunchie · 13/09/2005 21:09

Well I seemed to spend the whole summer holiday teating nits DD2 got them and we combed them all out, then did the eggs on dry hair and kept doing it everyday or two for 10 days. Did seem to wok, however one week in and nits have appeared again. I did them on the off chance, the news had a feature about nit, so I thought I'd do it. No itching, but lo and behold about 10 big fat f**rs. DD1 had nothing again!! So I did the combing, checked for eggs 2 or 3 and will comb and check again everyday, or it will be the lotion

steffee · 13/09/2005 21:17

I had them once when I was little.

My children have had them twice. Once when ds1 was two and dd was only about 6 weeks old. I rang the doctor about dd who said it can't be possible for her to have them as they have some sort of immunity to them, but she did! Couldn't use any treatments on her so wet-combed daily to get rid of them.

Second time all three children got them about a year ago. Tried a £10-a-bottle treatment which didn't work, so wet-combed again and have at least once a week since, as it was such a nightmare! Also check my own hair every other day as I always have an itchy head and am convinced I have them, but never find anything!

Surely it is neglect not to treat them?!