Would you like the nit nurse back in school?

[georgedontdothat]

Just read a study that said if parents knew that a nit nurse was chcking their lo's hair they would make more of a conscious effort to check hair .

I am fed up of them ATM I have 4 DD's with long hair and the minute I get rid of them they come back in again .

It seem to be with DD2 mainly I send her to school with a clean head and then she will come home with at least two walkers but no obvious eggs so I am assuming someone in her class isn't bug busting .

Would just like to be able to have a Nit free term GRR {angry}

So would you be happy with a nit nurse or not ,I definatley would .

Absolutely!
We all know who the culprits are and I found a nit the size of a bloody bus on ds1's head the other day!
( it hadn't grown on ds's head by the way )

Now I'm scratching

The problem is that there are so few school nurses now, and looking for/treating nits en masse is very time consuming. The nurses just don't have time to do it.

And also what can they do about it? Tell the parents, that's all. It's then up to the parents to do something about it and as we all know the most infested children will be the ones whose parents don't treat them.

No thanks can't see a problem checking for nits in your own children's hair. Don't need someone else to do it for me thank you

Yes but Mcdreamy thats what I'm trying to say .I constantky check My dd's hair yet almost every week I find evidence of nits .
It;s driving me mad and it is obvious some parents are just not checking and treating.

We want a nit nurse so she can tell the other parents to treat their lo's instead of a blanket letter been sent out and the situation not improving.

Not all parents are like you though McDreamy , thats where the problem lies ..

For those who keep finding them nearly every week, how do you know they are re-infected from other children and it's not the eggs that have hatched. dd had lice and despite weekly wetcombing, nightly nit-picking (scraping the eggs away with my fingernails), they kept coming back. I am convinced it was the eggs hatching (2 weeks about the time it takes to hatch and grow). I finally used hedrin and that is where i got rid of them for good (well for about 2 months)

But what makes you think the nit nurse is going to make any difference?

Maybe some parents dont know what to look for , maybe some parenst need educating about how to deal with them , thats where nit nurse or Mums inspecting could help out , saves finding out when the whole class have been infected .

Who knows what differnce they could make until it is tried . couldn't make nit outbreaks any worse could they ?

TBH, I think a lot of parents can't be arsed. There was a really awful lice problem at the first school DD1 attended when we moved to the UK.

Despite the fact I was working full time and so pretty time-poor, I went to the head and asked if a note could be put in the newsletter asking for parents to get together to discuss what worked and what didn't in getting rid of lice and to put together info for parents to make the schools "bug-busting" days effective.

I didn't get a single solitary response from the hundreds of families at that school. Not one other parent was concerned enough about the fact that the kids were getting re-infested (if they were treated at all) within two to three weeks of their head being clear, to even bother responding.

Wisteria
It's just me i suppose...have awful memories of being the only black kid in a white school. Nit nurse used to pick through my plaits ..I mean spending ages....I think mine was possibly the only afro hair she saw ever. All my class would have gone and there i was again.
She just couldn't seem to believe that there wasn't anything there.
I used to absolutely dread her
and NO...i really haven't carried that with me for night on 40 years

oh I see - I would imagine hope that things have changed in 40 years though - isn't afro hair far less likely to pick up nits anyway? Am sure I read that or is it just because it's often braided?

i have no idea you know
i never had em though...and neither has ds(10) and dd(5)... Perhaps it's true!
Someone will come along in a minute and tell us it's just an urban myth i'm sure

i prefer to check dd's myself.. used to hate queing for nit nurse to check my hair....

and i can never see any by just looking i only ever find them by wet combing...

I remember a poor kid at primary school having to undo all her braids for the nit nurse. Knowing how painful and time consuming having your hair braided is now (my sister in law did mine once - owch!) I can see why she ended up in floods of tears. She was the only black child in our class too. My director of nursing (ex HV and Afro-Caribbean) told me there was some evidence to suggest Afro hair is much less likely to attract nits (actually that should be lice, as nit refers to the empty egg sacks).

NO why should they
some parents are too bone idle to deal with the biddies in their kids heads

and as a job as a nit sorry but i couldnt go round looking for bugs in kids heads

NO why should they
some parents are too bone idle to deal with the biddies in their kids heads

and as a job as a nit sorry but i couldnt go round looking for bugs in kids heads