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

[charliecat]

Whats your excuse

I'm itching! Knew it wouldn't take long if I started reading this!

steffee, I am the same!! I have an itchy head all the time and was convinced I had nits but I tea tree condition my hair and nit come every 2 days and have never found anything.
Have stopped all hair products in case it was that but its still so itchy!!

Yeah magnolia, it's awful isn't it lol... my head is so itchy all the time, it keeps me awake and I'm paranoid when I go out that people will think I've got nits if I scratch all the time, so I usually try not to but it's so uncomfortable, lol. Have tried T Gel and allsorts but nothing stops it, and have to keep my nails short to stop cutting into my head lol but yeah, it's definitely not nits.

Going to the docs about mine this week, will let you know what she says

Thanks magnolia and good luck!

i dont think you can be sure a mother isnt trying to treat the child tbh. my ds had nits for months when he was in reception. i tried the nit comb, nit comb with conditioner, tea tree shampoo, some wierd other nit comb and every lotion and potion going and nothing worked at all. we had to shave his hair off in the end.

Although i usually agree with the eminent Cod this time I don't I don't believe it is necessarily a poverty/education related thing. I used to work in a private school and we got nits there as much as in any school. In fact the worst 'culprit' was the son of an eminent Harley Street obstetric consultant ... he was the scruffiest looking boy ever ... always with half his breakfast down his clothes, unwashed hair and his head literally moving with the nits ... the skin around his eyebrows was red raw from itching and you could see the nits in his eyebrows ... bleuuuughhh ...
His mum reckoned he suffered from skin allergies ... which he might well have done but I don't think a million little insects nipping at his skin helped him much
Poor kid ... he was the smelly one no one wanted to sit next to ... but he was a great kid ... I always felt sad for him.

my kids wee in a school that were riddled with them. i could treat them weekly and they got them again. they got a nurse in to give an educational thingy on them - only a couple of parents showed up out of the whole school.

i reckon if someone started a business charging for nit checks in school - they would make their money.

custy ... good to 'see' you around ...
at your typo there ... did your kids wee in school often?

Specks of blood on their pillow is a bit of a giveaway, too.

Ghosty sounds like the Harley St guy was too busy being eminent than looking at his son too closely. Maybe they don't do head lice at medical school, because it's just something us mere parents deal with.

If they were inside, rather than outside then maybe doctors would be interested.

It has bugger all to do with money. Nits don't care what income the head has!

My two go to a private school and dd has had them 4 times. ds never has, possibly due to the shorter hair, possibly because boys tend not to do as much 'heads together' play with their mates!

Some people either
a Can't be bothered
or b are too disorganised to do the combing properly

If you do it properly the nots get smaller and smaller. If you suddenly get a big adult on in the middle it means your child has been re-infected and then you have to start all over again. In the past this has happened over and over again and it has taken a holiday to shift the little buggers for once and for all.

when you find them on your kids do you tell the school? do they 'name & shame'? or does the school do nothing anyway? i think they should be much more open and proactive about treating them, otherwise we're fighting a losing battle. Any thoughts on school's policy?

Yes we do tell the school, and everyone in the class then gets a letter home. But they don't name and shame.

I am paranoid about nits as dd1's best friend has them and they spend a lot of time 'huddling'. And dd1 and dd2 have been scratching but I have looked and looked and cant see anything that looks like, well, anything really.

I am so paranoid that they have nits and for soem reason I am blind to them that I had a dream that they both had a headful of caterpillars

Yeeurgh, Enid!