A call from the school nurse...you have got to be kidding me!!!!

sonia23

sonia23

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was just sitting here in a good mood doing my sweeps... the phone rings... :fired: ...it's my daughter's school nurse saying she just checked her head and found a couple of lice eggs,but no bugs.. :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: .....she said she wouldn't send her home because she picked the eggs out she seen..and i need to check when she gets home...then the nurse checks again in the morning...if she has it still she will send her home :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: i don't understand why she wouldn't send her home today anyway...but anyway i have just been bummed out,my day ruined...this is the second time she has gotten lice from school,or where ever??? i sure would like to know where lice comes from..i hate dealing with it...washing everything,bagging toys up,spraying,washing hair,and lots of lots of combing :cry: :cry: :cry: does anyone have any helpful tips,or easy way for getting rid of them/it and preventing it....THIS GETS EXPENSIVE,I NEED A CHEAP ROUTE...please help...anyone!!!
 
When my girls were young they got them and the only thing I did was what you are doing. The only way I knew of and I don't think there is an easier way. Did you do a search online. One of my girls had long curly hair that was not fun.

i hope you can get rid of them the first time but if she only saw the eggs you might have to treat them again. Sorry for having a bad day.
 
I'm soooo sorry sonia.... We have to wear oil in our hair due to the fact that we are a mixed breed. So I think that keeps lice away.... I've never had to deal with it with my daughter but I think you are doing all the right steps to get rid of it... It's just a freak of nature girl... it will pass.... Did the nurse say she found any in other girls at the school?
 
I used the hot olive oil treatment on Kaliegh and it took a couple of applications (and lots of combing) but that got them out of there. Mayonnaise works too but the smell gets kind of bad leaving it on overnight.
Harvard said olive oil killed lice after two hours but can't recommend its use because there are no studies (and its hard to get the oil washed out, also you could slip down and break your neck, but I find that unlikely). Personally, for I found it worked great. except sleeping on a pillow with a trash bag on it is annoying for the kid.
Olive oil is simple, use cheap high acid olive oil, warm it up and comb it through the hair till the hair is a greasy mess. Put a shower cap on and leave overnight. shampoo it out the next day. The kid then smells like salad dressing for weeks. :laughing:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/headlice.html

If you try this and slip down and break your neck I am not responsible. Always check with your physician before making your kid smell like salad.
 
tharedhead said:
I used the hot olive oil treatment on Kaliegh and it took a couple of applications (and lots of combing) but that got them out of there. Mayonnaise works too but the smell gets kind of bad leaving it on overnight.
Harvard said olive oil killed lice after two hours but can't recommend its use because there are no studies (and its hard to get the oil washed out, also you could slip down and break your neck, but I find that unlikely). Personally, for I found it worked great. except sleeping on a pillow with a trash bag on it is annoying for the kid.
Olive oil is simple, use cheap high acid olive oil, warm it up and comb it through the hair till the hair is a greasy mess. Put a shower cap on and leave overnight. shampoo it out the next day. The kid then smells like salad dressing for weeks. :laughing:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/headlice.html

If you try this and slip down and break your neck I am not responsible. Always check with your physician before making your kid smell like salad.
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Oh my God! You actually killed something? :crazytongue: :laughing:
 
Im sorry. What a hassle. When my daughter was younger and had really long hair I would put baby oil in her hair and then braid it. She never brought the little buggers home. my boys hair is always shaved real close to the head so they dont get them either. Thats the only thing I knew to do and it worked.
 
OMG. Let me repeat that OMG. I swear my daughter had lice when she was in preschool and it freaked me out so bad I still to this day can not put my head on a theater seat without worry. I didn't really know what they were or what they looked liked but boy I do now. The same poor little girl kept coming back to school for almost six weeks with them and even though we got our kids clean -she would just pass them on again and again. Finally after we all had enough one of the parents called the health department. I felt so sorry for that little girl. But it is expensive so I feel your pain. Get a glass of wine and start combing!!!!!!! I remember my daughter fell asleep in the floor and I was still working away looking at every single hair on her head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I get to heaven I think I'm just going to have to ask "Why head lice??????"
 
Isn't the stuff called NIX? Or something like that. I agree fearsgirl that is one of those plagues I am gona ask about :laughing:
 
NIX is not effective anymore ~ neither is RID. Headlice is getting immune to the otc stuff. Not good news I know. Ashelyn came home with them earlier this year and I spent HOURS going through her hair!! Her hair is down to her butt and is always up in a ponytail, but she went on an overnight fieldtrip and was in the room with a little girl that had them and we got lucky also!!

They have another lice product at Wal-Mart called lice free that smells more like licorice and it seemed to work a lot better than the above mentioned products. I left it on Ashelyn's head for two hours!! Which is an hour more than you are suppose to (yes, she still has hair!). If you can, take your little one outside to look through her hair ~ eggs are so much easier to see in natural sunlight. I used tweezers and pulled the whole hair out. We would go out and I would let Ashelyn lay in my lap on the swing while I looked ~ it took FOREVER!!!

Try not to freak ~ the more upset you are ~ the more upset the baby will be and the longer it is going to seem to take. It seems like forever anyway when you have a crazy mom plucking your hair out with tweezers :laughing: Just be sure to go through her head really well ~ chase anything that moves down and kill it. Remember that if there are any babies on her head that you probably won't be able to see them. You might want to invest in a Robi comb. When you comb it though the hair it kills anything that is alive ~ or it will stop buzzing and you will know where it is at, and you can chase it down. It is a pain in the butt!!

Here is a website with some new products to help you prevent ~

http://www.fairytaleshaircare.com/content/default.asp?artid=65

Sorta expensive, but probably worth it!! I have heard that a mixture of half vinegar and half water in a spray bottle sprayed on the head works to prevent also ~ stinks, but works. Don't know though.
 
When my children were in school my two youngest got lice from some one on their bus. My oldest one didnt get them even though she had to sit next to the same little girl. Since I never had to deal with this before I called dr and he told me what to get, I asked him why Joely did't get the lice like the other two, he asked me if she blow dried her hair in morning, I said yes. He told me that is why she didn't get them. I guess the heat kills them.
 
Heat does kill them but it doesn't kill them all. Trust me-I searched every resource out there when we went through this. You simply have to hunt those suckers down and pull them off the hair shaft. It takes forever and is very expensive. My head itched for about a month afterwards and I didn't even have them. It was just a mind thing. The preschool teacher told me that if you kept your hair dirty (yeah, I know but that's what she said) they would be less likely to get lice. Lice love clean hair. They can't attach themselves to hair that is oily. (note what Champ and 3moms said in earlier post) Go to Walgreens and look for a little spray bottle called LiceGuard. It smells nice but is an oil that you spray on their hair to keep the bugs at bay. I used this for years after our incident and never had anymore trouble. We probably just got lucky though because lice is just like a cold - you just might catch it and you can't really help it.
 
Oh geez sorry girl. This topic just creeps me out. Kailey had them once for like two weeks or so. It was horrible. Had to wash everything, keep doing her hair, my hair, etc. Finally they went away. Go look in the parenting thread or gripe/vent thread, cause I actually had a topic about lice. Probably a year ago. lol its been long.
 
I am so sorry, that is terrible. I know when my daughter was in school she got them twice. I didn't have much money, so I used the baby oil over night, and put all the toys in plastic bags for 10 days, washed all the bed clothes in hot water with bleach and dried in dryer on high heat, and combed like crazy. I found this worked as well or better then all the expensive things you buy to do the same thing. But it does take more time. I also put baby oil on her hair and braided it so it wouldn't look greasy. That stopped her from getting them in the future. The school she was in seemed to have them every other week, and I could not even begin to afford doing treatments all the time. Good luck and I will say a prayer for lots of good to come your way.
 
:sunny: this is the greatest site ever,no matter what the subject is ,everyone always jumps in to show support..thank you all, i cut some of her hair off,she was fine with it, i went ahead and got some shampoo for it,i combed her hair for about 6 hours,i didn't see anymore but it felt like my eyes wanted to go cross-sided..i didn't see bugs just the eggs,but i'm thinking... :scratch: wouldn't there be a bug ..everyone has been shampooed..i hope i got it...will redo in 7-10 days :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:...again thanks for all of your ideas,and wish me luck
 
Good job mom :sunny: For the rest of the week you should just check her hair while you guys are sitting around watching tv. That's what I did and each night I found more nits. Even after I put farm grade pesticide on my babies head! But it did work. I'm so sorry you had to go thru this. It's so much work and it's just gross. I've been there and done that so I know. And a question for all SA's. The world is a big chain. As in, food chain. everything is here for a reason. You know the birds eat the bugs and the bugs eat the mites on the plants and so forth and so on. So would someone please tell me where in the he_ _ do head lice fit into this. I just gotta know.
 
What color hair does your daughter have? My daughter has really light blonde hair, it was so hard seeing eggs in her hair.
 
my daughter has brown hair so it is easy to find and see the eggs,thank god...i'm so glad she doesn't have blonde hair...it's still early but no call from the school nurse yet,wanting to send her home
 
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