headlice again!!!

thriftlady_2

Justamum can I ask you if you keep your children off school for the whole cycle? Our school asks us not to send kids to school with headlice.

anniebooklover

dolly_day_dream wrote:

Spare a thought for us poor teachers:o I sit here yet again with an infestation.

ddd have you tried wearing a headscarf or something similar on your head while in the classroom? I know of some girls at DDs school who have worn a headscarf since day one and have never had headlice to my knowledge (just wish I had thought of it years ago. DD is still getting infested and she is in yr 6!). Even if you still get the odd one, surely the headscarf is bound to reduce the infestation. Just a suggestion of course.

fsdss

my kids were treated with plastic comb and conditioner, i didnt like the comb as the eggs were still there, then i went to LUSH and asked them if they had any shampoos for headlice, they gave me one for "preventative treatment" and thought i'd give it a go, it does stink a little but..... no headlice in 8 weeks so far, and my shiny new nitty gritty comb hasnt had any use yet.

topbanana2803

I get my ds's hair clipped No.1. so no problems with him but my dd has long natural spiral curly hair so was a nightmare, however we now use the nit buster kit every Tues and Fri and her hair remains virtually nit free, (you can use fabric conditioner if you run out of regular conditioner! Hairdressers advice) but also because at my dd's school we got so fed up with our little friends doing the rounds that we did something about it.
We set up a group of volunteer parents who were happy to check the kids hair. We sent out letters to all parents and carers telling them that their childs hair would be checked regularly but if they had any objections sign the form and their hair would not be checked.
Now every Friday KS1 am and KS2 pm are checked, all children go home with a brown envelope with a nit buster comb in it so no-one gets picked on but in the envelope it says either:
Live lice were found - please treat
Inconclusive - please treat as a precaution
No lice found

This has been happening since the start of this term and it's all going well at the moment:beer:

Pipkin

We had a lot of trouble with headlice when the kids were young.

In the end we bought an electric nit comb which worked excellently, and was far easier to use than conditioner and combing which we had used before.

It is not a one off treatment though, the hair must be combed through every day for a few weeks to eliminate any newly hatched lice, just as you would using conditioner.

My comb (I think it is the robicomb I have) has 2 settings - one to detect lice (the sound changes) and another to actually kill them.

It really does work, I have combed out HUGE lice from my daughters hair before, quite completely dead from the electrical charge.

Lice combed out via the conditioner method were still alive (though smothered in conditioner) and had to be killed (ever heard one of them blighters go *pop*? yuk...shudders)

The primary school she attended eventually bought one of these so that any children at school suspected of having lice could be combed over (with the parents consent).

alips_2

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/theliceprogram/

is a programme of combing
you can get the nitty gritty comb on prescription
http://nittygritty.co.uk/ng/resources/nittygritty_available_on_prescription.pdf

hth
ALi

lindsaygalaxy

You can get the Nitty Gritty comb from Sally hair and beauty supplies ( you dont need to be trade to go there), I work there and every customer we have sold them to says they are brilliant, but i belive Boots/Tesco are selling them now too. They are about £10.

lil_me

thriftlady wrote:

Justamum can I ask you if you keep your children off school for the whole cycle? Our school asks us not to send kids to school with headlice.

Our school is the same now, it's took a fight from parents to get them to state that, parents sick of children coming home with them! Unfortunately some don't listen and you can see a few whos heads are literally crawling :eek: in there daily, we have asked the staff to do something about this. I don't know how the parents can ignore it.

Pipkin I've heard that *pop* noise before, not nice is it.

I am going to have to stop reading this thread as it's making me itchy!