NITS

JIMJAM_4

down with head lice for cathy's board it would be white vinegar cheap but works moneysaving old skool

jellyhead

i volunteer in a school. we are not allowed to notice if a child is visibly crawling with nits, and certainly not allowed to ask the parent to treat it. the standard nit letter gets sent out, put into the bin, etc. i don't mean this to sound nasty, but part of the problem is that not all mums can read english, some of them can't read at all. others just don't care, it's so common now that some parents even say there's no point treating it as they'll only get it again!!!!

i have an 8 year old boy with short hair. he's never had nits from school, but caught them on holiday recently. i don't understand how anyone can live with them for more than a day, he was so itchy!! it was awful, we had to find the nearest chemist and treat him straight away, we couldn't wait for a doctor to give us a free prescription. maybe it's worse for him because he has eczema, but we found around 20 nits in his hair in total, if he'd had more he would have scratched his head off!!

potty_2

ISN'T IT A BREECH OF HEALTH AND SAFETY TO HAVE BITING INSECTS PASSED ON TO OUR CHILDREN?

IT COULD SPREAD DISEASE. WRITE A LETTER TO THE HEAD TEACHER, CLASS TEACHER, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EDUCATION DEPARTMENT STATING THIS. But, do remember that the teacher can only follow governmental guidelines, and is not personally responsible for this problem, and they get nits too.

I used to work in a school with a child with learning difficulties, who used to go into respite care each fortnight.

A few times she got refused respite care due to nits, and myself and her mum and I got into cahoots together to keep her free from nits.

We treated her with chemical teatments, and combed her hair 3 times at school, and mum did it in the morning and evenings, after 3 weeks no nits, we also used the tea tree spray remedy each time we combed, this did help, but, every time she came out from respite care (where they are checked for nits, and refused entry) she came back with nits.

We conquered it eventyally by demanding our charge to be examined thoroughly on arrival, and a form signed that there was no evidence of nits, and again on departure, mum kept this, I kept a school log too. Eventually the respite home had to take serious steps to deal with this.

Maybe, all you good parents could start the same thing each week at school, and therefore the children with nits will want the good attention and praise of being nit free, and may do the combing themselves if parents dont. THE TEACHER COULD HAVE A CHART WITH AN OBSCURE HEADING AND NIT FREES COULD GET A STAR OR STICKER ON IT.

This child was bad tempered, ill able to concentrate, unable to think straight with the nits picking at her, and when erradication took place, she was a different child.

It is time that all good parents stand together, and maybe if you can find out the other GOOD parents, and you could put a message on their car to maybe embarrass them into action, the not good parents obviously.

NITS ARE A SUBJECT CLOSE TO MY HEART, NOT THAT CLOSE THOUGH I DONT HAVE A HAIRY CHEST...

16011996

i have just had this problem with my daughter, posterd on another board and was forwarded here. we have the worst nightmare of a mum in our school, her theory is they are all gods creatures, and they will leave her daughter when they are good and ready. poor child scratches all the time, and it makes me want to scream. the tips onhere are great, i will be trying a few.

thanks,

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Savvy_Sue

we have the worst nightmare of a mum in our school, her theory is they are all gods creatures, and they will leave her daughter when they are good and ready. poor child scratches all the time, and it makes me want to scream.

Maybe she qualifies for the Wally of the Week award then! Sounds like child cruelty to me. What does the daughter think?

I can just about follow the argument that you don't kill God's creatures, even if I personally am willing to make exceptions in several areas, but as the Chinese say "You can't stop the birds landing on your head but you can stop them nesting in your hair."

Deterrents are the answer, hope you can get the message across to her.

16011996

been trying for four years, not getting anywhere. even had social services involved through her gp but she still refuses to treat em. poor child suffers cos of scratching all the time, and cos other kids don't want to play with her. i'd just like to take her home with me and sort it out once and for all.

jellyhead

poor kid :-(

i've got nits at the moment. i don't know much about them, my boy has short hair and only ever got them once (on holiday, from the same girl i've caught them from). i used treatment, but it didn't tell me to re-treat in 7 days, i didn't know you were supposed to and i didn't need to re-treat my son's head when he had them, so now i have them again and they're huge, i'm not happy lol! it's just me, nobody else has them.

can they live on things like car seats? hats? pillows? is it enough to wash the pillow cases?

trafalgar_2

"can they live on things like car seats? hats? pillows? is it enough to wash the pillow cases? "


No, nits don't survive very long once not on the head


Wash pillow cases anyway.............I wouldn't want dead ones on them :-/......

The nits stick it the hair so won't just drop out and the lice................only leave to walk onto another head :-/

16011996

mmm, seem to remember my mum boil washing pillowcases just to make sure.

System

I got head lice once, none of the rest of the family had it. I have a pretty good idea how i got them, a few days before i had been to the sales. In Next it was standing room only, you had to push your way round, and people were standing shoulder to shoulder. Me being the littlest didnt stand a chance.