Have just scarred DS emotionally and psychologically for life I think. He STILL has the bloody lice. Have done both treatments with Hedrin but he's still scratching so have looked through his head this morning and found two of the little feckers running through his head.
I should mention here that he hates having his hair brushed and combed so that's always an issue and screams hysterically when having his hair cut. This is so bad that the last two hairdressers no longer return our calls! The salon just say "if he can't sit still we can't do him". So his hair has got very long.
Today in desperation so I can at least have a fighting chance of being able treat the headlice and to comb through easily I have held him down with my Mum and cut his hair while he screamed hysterically and thrashed about. I feel really bad about this as we have done loads of work on the haircutting with the nursery who have been fantastic - two weeks ago he let us cut his fringe for the first time with no fuss and I know I have just undone all that good work.
I have to also be honest and say that he now looks like an urchin (a hairdresser I aint) and I may have to pin him down again and let someone use clippers on him (which he also hates because they make a noise.
I also dislike the idea of using organo-phosphates on his head but am off to get the strongest fecking solution I can find so I can naplam the little bastards - at leat with DS hair shorter, (albeit urchin like) it should be easier to get a comb through.
My Mum is telling me that I was twice as bad and I survived so I guess DS will too. Feeling bad about it though.