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

Head lice fit in NOWHERE!!!! They are here to drive poor mothers BATS!!!
 
It really depends on your school policy on whether or not they can even send your kid home with lice eggs. Since lice eggs don't move, most schools have the policy that the kids with them can stay in school. However, this year, as parent reps, we made our school adopt a new policy that states that a student with eggs can be sent home. I know that that might sound extreme, but after you have worked so hard for weeks to get rid of them and the student right next to your daughter who keeps them gives them to her again, you get so mad!!! It isn't the child's fault, but we are trying to make the parents take some responsiblitly in getting rid of the critters!! If the kids are there with eggs, then eventually they are going to be there with bugs. Most parents don't want to miss a lot of work being called out for lice detail and will get something done about the problem.

Now when you get down to the other 5% that the parents just don't care ~ there just isn't anything that the school can do. You can not make the parents do it. We do in-home visits and show the parents how to get rid of them, but the rest is up to them. They get free product and hair checks and NOTHING does any good. All I can say is that if you know of someone that has head lice all the time at school, go to the teacher first and request that your child not be place in a seat around that child. If that doesn't work then take it to the principle. Always remember the child's feelings though. They just can't control what their parent do ~ it is sad! Especially for the little girls that can't have their heads shaved!!
 
I have to say that after reading all of this, I'm amazed at how many people have had encounters with lice.

In my 44 years, I have only known of three children when I was in grammar school from the same family that had lice. Not to get into details, but they had very poor hygenics. On both occasions, they had to have their hair cut down (two boys and one girl).

Other than that, I have never known anyone else that got lice.
 
It's funny, but when I was smaller that was the way it was here also ~ but the older I got the more it began to spread into the general population. I know that one of Ashelyn's friends that parent's are very well off has a daughter that has gotten it three times in the last year and the mother has just about went nuts! She has enough money that she has thrown out all of the bed linens each time and all of the pillows and has someone to come in and clean the house from top to bottom. Believe it or not, she was very down to earth about it and told us all about the battle :laughing:

The more resistant the lice become to the otc medications that we have now, the more commonplace they will become :cussing: :cussing: Or I guess I should use this icon ~ :scratch:
 
ping1970 said:
It's funny, but when I was smaller that was the way it was here also ~ but the older I got the more it began to spread into the general population. I know that one of Ashelyn's friends that parent's are very well off has a daughter that has gotten it three times in the last year and the mother has just about went nuts! She has enough money that she has thrown out all of the bed linens each time and all of the pillows and has someone to come in and clean the house from top to bottom. Believe it or not, she was very down to earth about it and told us all about the battle :laughing:

The more resistant the lice become to the otc medications that we have now, the more commonplace they will become :cussing: :cussing: Or I guess I should use this icon ~ :scratch:
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We still never hear of anyone getting it. I'm wondering if it's more prevalent in certain climates/areas. :scratch:
 
when we lived in fl it was pretty bad at the schools. thats why I kept baby oil in my daughters hair. I havent heard of anyone getting sent home here yet though. they may not notify parents about it like they do in fl. Lice is very, very common. Its unusal for a kid to not get it atleast once. They prefer clean hair to dirty and they dont care if you are rich or poor. Im not sure why their is such a stigma attached to lice.
 
It's actually very uncommon in this area. No child ever got it at my children's school in PA. With the exception of those 3 kids in grammar school when I lived in NJ, no one else ever got it while I was in school. Don't know of anyone around here either. It really is extremely uncommon in this neck of the woods.

That's why I'm so shocked by all the people posting experiences with lice. It's such a rarity in these parts.
 
If I ever have small children again, I'm moving to PA! If they don't have lice there it will be worth the trouble. Head lice are however a problem everywhere. Maybe they are like roaches. They have somehow managed to survive since dinosaurs roamed the earth. I guess it's God's way of making sure we know how miserable our pets are when they have fleas! :laughing: I do hope you get to sit down and rest tonight. It's so much work and time that you have to put into it to get the situation under control.
 
I lived in NJ, PA, and New York; all the same area. My husband said he only knew of two boys in grammar school who had lice. He grew up out here on Long Island. It's just not heard of very often around here. I'm still can't get over how many have had an experience with them. Knock on wood, I'm glad I never had to go through that with my kids.
 
Out of curiosity, I looked at a couple sites that had information about lice. It did say that in some areas, lice are pesticide-resistant. So, that probably explains it. What does Raid say? "We kill them dead!" :crazytongue:
 
That sucks that you're going to have to deal with the lice thing. I worked with a girl who had them a couple times when she was younger and she said they tried the over the counter stuff and it didn't work very well. But then her mom found that rubbing alcohol will kill them and do it very quickly. They would go outside and dump a bottle of rubbing alcohol all over their head and it suffocates the lice. It reeks to high heaven and that's why they would do it outside but apparently it worked. I'm lucky enough never to have had the lice affliction (knock on wood) and hopefully my son won't ever have it either. Good luck. :wave:
 
thank you everyone for the help and support...i believe i got it under control...i have repeatedly comb through her hair..can't find anything anymore...no calls again from the school nurse...wishing me luck! i would not wish this on anyone! :laughing:
 
I would... I'd wish it upon a site we all know ohhh too well.... :laughing: and in spots you DON'T want lice.... :cheers:
 
I am a newbie, but just had to respond to this post. My daughter is in college and she still remembers what a weird mom I was. My kids had their own baseball helmet that they had to bring with them to baseball games. They had to give it to me to guard since all the kids wanted the new helmet, it was cheaper then the lice products. The coach would laugh at me, but I got the last laugh when he had to call all the parents and inform us that someone had head lice and that now he understood why I had my own helmet. haha I still look at anything shiny in kids hair that come near me. What I wanted to tell you is that the best thing that we used after going through all the on the shelf products was a cream that our doctor gave us. This is because of the resistent lice. Call the peditrician and tell them you are worried about the chemicals since your have used them more than once and they are still there. They will give you a prescription. The one we got was in a tube and was a white cream. I did all the searching afterwards, but they never came back. Also, you may think that your kid is getting them from someone else two or three weeks later, but you probably never got rid of them. They can live off the head in warm climates. All it takes is missing one egg and it starts all over again. Good luck.
 
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