Nits

[daisychainmail]

Hello,

This sounds really petty, so sorry in advance.

Whenever DSD comes she has nits. We comb through each night and then do a treatment, but her mum refuses to follow it up. So she comes back with nits again and again ad infinitum.

It's really getting me down now. Why would a mum refuse to even check let alone treat her child's hair? DH asks her but she refuses. Does anyone have any insight? Also should we just stop doing them? But that means we all get nits anyway then have to spend twice the money doing our own heads.

I can't see an answer.

Email the school head anonymously or otherwise and inform them of the situation that your stepdaughter has recurrent headlice and it's not being treated adequately wheat her mother's, so the child may be spreading lice amongst the school.

The head can then word a letter to the mum requesting that she resolve the problem with proper treatment, without mentioning the fact that someone else had informed her of the problem, but that school teachers had noticed.

And Hedrin works 'once' to kill the lice and eggs, but your child could go to school next day and get reinfected with new lice from someone...so you'd need to keep using Hedrin until the cycle is broken. Headlice are a cycle problem! Not a permanently treatable one off problem.
From experience, only luck and thorough weekly comb through checks keep lice at bay.

The head can then word a letter to the mum requesting that she resolve the problem with proper treatment, without mentioning the fact that someone else had informed her of the problem, but that school teachers had noticed.

schools aren't supposed to tell parents that their child has headlice or that they have seen them. It's silly I know. They can send out letters to the whole class or the teacher might say something on the lines of ''oh you might want to check her for nits, I saw her scratching before, there's loads of it going around at the moment''.
But to my knowledge, a teacher or head can't send a letter to Mum telling her that her child has nits and she needs to treat them. I think it's down to the fact that teacher's aren't nurses or Dr's so aren't qualified to diagnose.

True, but I don't think there's a qualification for noticing lice or old nit eggs!

Our school tells the parent in person. I suppose it's down to individual schools how they deal with these things.