My mum has checked and checked and checked. There are no headlice there. If there were, I would be very happy and would kill the little buggers and my head would stop itching.
It's been itching for about 4 weeks. My daughter's pony had a bout of horse lice, which I treated, and my head started itching then. I put it down to just feeling 'urggh' after seeing the crawly little blighters on the pony. I treated him with horse chemicals (permethrin) next day, and since I was a bit itchy too, I dabbed a bit on my head. Itchiness did not go away.
One evening about a week ago, my best friend pulled something off my hiar thinking it was a bit of fluff, but it was an insect, and we both convinced ourselves it was a bloody great big louse (a really slow moving one!) Since then - nothing. No sightings, no nits, even though I am now driving my mother and husband mad asking them to have another look. I have 2 kids, one a daughter with waist-length hair. Surely if I have had lice for 4 weeks, I would have noticed my kids scratching too, and there would be at least some visible evidence on my head? Or have I got a massive case of psychosomatic itchiness, or perhaps I have given myself a bit of a burnt scalp by treating myself with horse chemicals? Who knows? Any suggestions? 