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Kids and lice

Posted: Jun 20, 2013

Any opinions please? My daughter has a friend who started coming over and I noticed she was continuously scratching her head A LOT, so I asked her to let me look in there and she had lice. It wasn't a case that was just hard to get rid of, her head was crawling with TONS of lice!!! I actually called and asked the girl's mom about it and she acted like she didn't even know she had lice, but said she would treat it. Well, then my daughter gets lice, so I treat her head, we clear it up, but she is best friends with this girl and so my daughter keeps continuously getting lice. Now, my son even got it and he is a teenager, so of course he says he doesn't want this girl back around, he doesn't want lice.

The little girl went to her grandmother's for 2 weeks and we cleared up all lice in the house. Neither of my kids even had an egg in their hair. The little girl comes back and they have lice AGAIN! I called the mother back and she actually had the nerve to say that they never had a lice problem before and basically said her daughter was getting it from my daughter!

I don't know what to do, because this girl is my daughter's best friend. I cannot afford lice treatment every day that she comes around and I don't want my kids walking around with lice. What would you do?

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Head Lice.....sm - tiny

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I cannot believe some parents are so freaking selfish as to allow their kids to go to someone's house knowing they have head lice!

Check her head before she comes into the house, if she still has head lice, send her home and call the mother and tell her your sorry, but you are sending her home because she still has head lice.

Worst case scenario....make an anonymous call Department of Child Welfare, or whatever they call it in your neck of the woods. This amounts to neglect.

My daughter got scabies when she was little, about 4 years old. At first we thought she had poison ivy, but it didn't clear up. Took her to the doctor, got cream for it, called her daycare and said, hey, she has scabies. They acted as if we brought it to their daycare.....ummmm.....where do you think she got it??? Some other a-hole parent didn't report that their kid had it and that's where my kid got it. We at the very least did the right thing by reporting it to the daycare and other parents and stopping the spread.

Lice and scabies is not a cleanliness issue....it's a kid issue and lice actually loves clean hair rather than dirty hair. It's nothing to be ashamed about, most of us have been through it.

You might also want to ask the mom if maybe she isn't doing something right and that's why they aren't going away, maybe she doesn't know what to do??

Lice - INMT

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I had an issue with head lice when my oldest was about 12 or so. We did the shampoo and comb thing twice or three times, I got a little OCD there LOL.. But I know for a fact that things in the home must be washed.. The two times she came home with it I took all the bedding, towels, clothes directly to the laundry mat and washed in as hot water as the material would allow. Got a spray for furniture and carpets. Those little pests live in everything. It was a bit expensive and drove me nuts the second time, but we dealt with it. The mom of this child that still has lice may not even know that she needs to do such things, just treat the hair. In my junior high years we had a family that was run by an older brother, parents had died. The daughter/sister got lice and they just shaved her head, bald....cant even imagine what that child went through.

Just my input, hope all goes well

Here too, you have to wash, and bag up everything - sm - XXX

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We got them from a friend of my daughter's, who we think got it from a girl on her softball team (they shared helmets)....we all shared brushes when said girl went on vacation with us as she forgot hers. She was itching when her parents dropped her off, thought it was a combination of sunburn (had just come staight from the beach) and a shampoo allergic reaction as she was not using her normal shampoo at the beach)---took 6 weeks to kill the suckers here, 3 OTC treatments spending several hundred $$ and 2 home remedies and hours upon hours of going thru everyones hair (3 others) every night stand by long strand. I washed all the sheets, bagged up stuffed animals galore, vacuumed floors, mattresses (getting rid of the bag immediately outside), did this for practically eery day for weeks since we were having trouble getting rid of them on one of my daughters, also vacuumed and sprayed the car, all the furniture, etc. It is extremely labor intensive but necessary. Both the OP and the daughter's friends family need to do all of this to eradicate them. Personally I would just say the girl cannot come over until they are gone, period. They are He** to get rid of. Friends had a really hard type of lice to kill, after a few months they just shaved their heads....no more lice. Rather drastic but effective.

To Moderator - Help please

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First, let me apologize for coming in on a discussion here, but...I need the moderator and I don't have her e-mail address.

Moderator: I am unable to post a new message. I want to start a new topic, but it keeps telling me I can't post without text in the text field. I type plenty in there, and it won't let me post. It works okay when I just reply, which is why I didn't post a new message---I can't.

suggest switching to "plain text" - when attempting to post

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this should solve your problem. there is a post to do that right above the message area.

Thank you! - nm

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you're welcome! - :-)

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It did the trick-Sandwich Poster - Been trying for days!-nm

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