fucking school district. Here we go. 13 more years of this shit.

So not necessarily true. We've battled lice every year for the last 4. This last time starting last Feburary or so till basically now. Cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. Shampooed, Picked them out and their eggs. Plus we have been using the electric comb that kills the lice with an electric shock. We are hopefully coming to the end. But we will see. The comb is working this time but when I used it last spring it didn't seem to be putting a dint in the damn things. But so far..... :crossesfingers:

I can see Ben Maxwell's point. I caught chicken pox when I was don't thirom my best friend, whose idiot parents sent her back to school after four fucking days, when the spots went away. When I caught it, we were told by the doc that the infection cycle could last up to two weeks after the symptoms appear. And thanks to her parents' carelessness and inconsiderate behavior, about three other kids got sick, as well as any siblings those kids may have had...like my four year old brother that wasn't even in school then.

Parents thinking of people other than their own spawn is a hard concept these days, but keep them home can do a lot to prevent a whole outbreak like the one Gul described at his kids school...and yeah lice is harmless, but who'd want to just say "fuck it" and send their kid to school like that over their pride?

And as for other kids finding out, how the hell would they fucking know who had it, unless the teacher blabbed to the class?

ETA: Didnt see Aenea's post upthread before responding.

When you have kids you will understand it better. And Chicken Pox...I had the same deal. Some neighbor kid came over and I got it from him. But back in the days there was no vaccination for it. People would sometimes plan for the kids to get it and be done. Like if one kid got it another parent might bring their kid around to catch.

Yep. My wife never did get it, never did get it, and never did get it. Eventually, someone in her church got it and her parents had them play together. My wife still didn't get it. She never has had it. We're a little worried about it because it's horrible in adults. A friend of mine got it in college and it almost, literally, killed him.

Yes, very bad for adults. You have to stay in the hospital. As a kid you're not really that sick but very contagious.

Wow, bionic woman! She may have some sort of super immunity.

For me, the treatment was far, far worse than the disease. My mom tried everything our Pediatrician told her to ease my suffering. None of it really worked, so she listened to my paternal grandfather. Somehow he came up with a homemade lye based soap. My mom gave me a bath in it and it made everything much, much worse. My memory of it is vague, but I recall it taking almost all of the top layer of my skin off.

What Garamet said. If she hasn't caught it after that many tries, I wouldn't lose sleep over it.

The calamine lotion didn't work?? You must have had a bad case. I recall just being a little sick but the spots itched a lot.

I had it bad, man. Even on the inside of my eye lids.

The one home remedy that really worked was L-Lysine in capsule form. My cousins got it a year after I did and my aunt gave that to them, and the itching and bumps were gone in three days.

Lysine is also used in some lip balms to soothe cold sores, so I guess it worked in the same fashion from the inside out.

I didn't even go to a doctor. I got it, then my brother. And I had missed two weeks of summer camp.

Ah yes, the Lysine Contingency

There's a difference between Chicken Pox and head lice, because if treated, lice go away over night. There is no reason to keep the kid out of school, just be on top of handling the problem. Yes, many do nothing, so they keep re-exposing the other kids. Just the same, it does nobody any good for a treated kid to remain home. Chickenpox is quite a different thing.

My mom and her sister did the same thing back in the 50's

When my older daughter got lice (from sharing a brush with some other kid ) and my wife saw how...tiny...the "lice shampoo" bottle was, we used pet shampoo on my daughter's hair.

The lice were gone very fast, like in a day or so.

That is awesome!

A bigger problem is that so many lice are now immune to the lice poison which used to kill all the lice. It's like antibiotics but at a smaller level. In time we may see a return of the nit picker who's job it was was to remove the "nits" or the little lice eggs packets. Prior to the poisons that is what people did and we just might see that return after the poisons stop working.

We had to actually go from head to head - wearing gloves - and literally inspect the scalp closely for nits. i still get uncomfortable just thinking about it.

This happens with fleas too, they can become highly resistant to the various shampoos, skin treatments, etc. It can make battling them a pain in the ass.

The shampoo for pets had less of the chemical, and didn't work for us.

Hmmm...

I don't remember what kind we used, but it knocked those lice out right quick.