General Chat

The teatree conditioner worked for me, if you use it everytime you wash the kids and yours hair it should keep them in check. Or buy a zapper for £15 and do it everyday when they come in from work.

Don't forget that nits can hide on clothes, seat backs (including the car) and pillows.

I did get the electronic comb, which emits a harmless current? According to my kids it's not harmless, I got OH to use it on me and it does hurt a bit. £20 wasted.

Was it Hedrin Ann........ Cos that was the last one I tried.

Helen lol I wish I could just ignore it and get bladdered on the vodka but me and vodka aren't good friends. lol

Colin I'll go to the herbalists on monday, we have one in town. xx

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nIGHTMARE i KNOW!!!


Cazzles xxxxx


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In some areas you can get the lotion from the doctors Muffy id give it a try the worse thing they can say is no.

I cant use it on Boo because it makes her eczema worse so have to use conditioner on her hair and comb through it for hours till shes clear, i go through her hair everynight so i can nip it in the bud if she has caught them. I have found though she catches them less since i have been using a leave in conditioner on her hair though.

Do you have the website to hand Mousy?
I was told that the (traditional) comb breaks their legs even if you don't get them out. So they die of starvation since they can't cling on near the scalp. nice.

i havent had this porblem for a long time but

every other wash i use a anti headlice shampoo it does have tee tree in it i got mine from homebargains

its only bought a £1

dont no if this works of just the fact i tigh the girls hair up in plaits n buns lol

Ta Mousy

I know the feeling. Every time my 18month old grandaughter goes to her other nans or her dads sister she comes back full of them. My daughters mil has even sat in my house scratching permanently. Her son my sil has spoken to them about it on more than one occasion, but they refuse to even check their hair! It's irresponsible people like them that make it hard for all of us others.
I now use the hair conditioner and nit comb. It seems to work well at the moment. Wish someone could cokme up with a complete cure or an anti nit spray that repels them permanently.

Pam

Thing is Jax even if I do get it free from the doctors.......... the parents that aren't bothering are draining the NHS even more than necessary. It is disgraceful. I would be mortified if my child were over run with them and infecting other kids.

It's about time parents were made to take responsibility for this........ this was never such a problem when I was a kid. If a child had nits they were sent home til they were gone. End of. Now everyone is so scared of upsetting people that they are scared to address the issue. I don't recall any child being stigmatised at school for being sent home with nits.

If anything we were all dead jealous !!!!!!! xx

Besides being a Mum, I also worked as a School Administrator so I know how frustrating this problem is for the majority of parents.

We could name the child from each class whose parent would never treat their headlice. We organised information days, stickers, free combs, anything you can think of but there were still the few who couldn't be bothered and therefore passed them round the class time after time after time.

I think it would be brilliant if someone in school was allowed to treat the headlice of the few whose parents didn't do it, but of course nobody is allowed to lay a finger on their nitty darlings for fear of repercussions!

Mandy :)

I agree Mandy.

I'd name and shame them personally in the school newsletter or at least provide them with the lotions at my own expense........ but these people just don't do shame xx

I know how you feel i couldnt let my kids walk round knowing they had them thats why i check us all every night but seems some have much more important things to do makes me mad. If i see nits in any of my kids friends hair i will tell their mother myself if they dont like it tough they should think enough of their kids to look after them properly.

I can only ever remember having nits once as a child but my mum used to go through our hair everynight to make sure.

The thing is, even if you gave the parents the lotion at your own expense, would they be bothered to use it. It might just be to much like hard work for them. It might take them away from the telly or something really important!!

Pam

Think the alcohol breaks down any waxy coating on the nits, and then allows the other treatments to work.

It is pretty horrifying to think that even grandparents and aunts aren't treating themselves. I have never had them and neither have my sister's children.

Hope you get them sorted soon.

Rosalind

Until this year I have NEVER in my life had nits.

It's one child in my youngests class that is causing this and everyone knows who it is.

Thing is it's horrible. You are loathe to invite her round to play etc though it really isn't her fault !! I want to shake her parents I really do.

The nit nurse would stop this. xx

I had my little girls hair cut.

From very blonde down to her bottom to a short layered crop.

she looks gorgeous fortunately but still gets them.

I never put chemicals on her, just the conditioner and it is so short a few squirts of lavender essential oil spray and four minutes with the comb and I catch and squash all the ones she brings home each day.

Her hair is so blonde it is easy to see the black eggs too and I have a nitty gritty comb with the spirals on the teeth which pulls them out a treat.

Dirty B*ggers some mothers are! They can wear make up but don't have time to comb their children's hair.

The rest of us in the class are going mad and understandably a lot of them don't want to cut their little girls' hair.

It is possible to contact school nurse for a bug busting day and if a teacher feels that there is a problem with any specific child the school nurse can be contacted.

she can take situation in hand and provide teaching, help and equipment to affected child's family. Nobody else needs to know about it.

Furthermore she is able to contact social services and report neglect of a minor because leaving a child "infested in a public place" is a criminal offence.

By the way, i had her hair cut once I had got her clear of the last batch!

And the fifteen inch long golden ponytail went to a UK based charity called Little Princess Trust.

They accept donations of hair and have wigs made from them in China and the USA.

The wigs are then given to children who are suffering hair loss for a variety of reasons.

I've held back up til now but I'm starting to really feel hacked off so thanks for your advice I will take the teacher aside on Monday and put my views across.

Seems like these days they are scared of speaking out because of human rights and all that malarky.

Load of old rubbish I say.

Look after the majority and the minority should pull their socks up and catch up !!! xx

I don't remember having them as a child. I got them a couple of years ago as an adult, probably from my nephew. Soon as I found one of the little buggers on my itchy head I treated it. To be honest, I don't know how anyone can ignore it, the itching was driving me insane.