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Work with kids, ideal job, 13 weeks a year holiday.

Down side
9 weeks a year unpaid
Money is rubbish
Nits are our monthly bonus

& would I change it? Not for a minute, unless someone can come up with a nit free world!

we my kids were in little school every week i had to comb through my girls hair .I offered the headmistress that i would come in once a week and check all the kids hair..SHE HAD TO TURN ME DOWN AS THE LAW WAS MYSELF AND THE SCHOOL COULD BE DONE FOR ASSAULT IF WE TOUCHED A CHILLD WITH OUT PARENTAL CONSENT,the teachers are only allowed to touch a child on the elbow.human rights, where are mine???

Well I always thought four pints of fine ale was a great remedy but my wife still won't believe me.

Tea tree was good for killing them in my sisters hair and the conditioner and the comb, but there were that many as we were tirelessly trying to get rid of them they just seemed to be more coming every time we combed her hair when she came back from school that I think in the end Derbac was the only one to get rid of my sisters infestation and that was only about 3 years ago.

We had tried all the ones mentioned here (Hedrin moose or shampoo versions had absolutley no effect on the lice in her hair they just would not shift) and used ones from the GP, all the ones the nurses and the school had recommended and none of them got rid of them they just seemed to irritate them even more than get rid until the pharmasist recommended Derbac.

Actually it smells ok. don't know how effective it is but it's far from the worst smelling one I've come across lol xx

Oh, and it makes her much quieter and calm as she sets off to school.

My two ping off the ceiling in a morning, you see!

By the way, I made a lavender essential oil spray by diluting with water and I make a habit of spraying her as she gets ready for school.

Stops her hair looking so mad in the morning - she has Harry Potter hair but blonde.

And also cuts down the number of lice she brings home in the afternoon by about half.

This is consistent after I started using it so I am assuming it is the spray and not that the trollop has begun combing half her child's lice out!

I suppose the Derbac today may be different from all those years ago,and have chemicals in.It certainly smelled of antiseptic,and would not have had the irritants in it,or the chemicals used today.

Nah! but I do enjoy hearing them pop and seeing the blood on a white piece of paper.

the headmaster is a bit squeamish and i thought I might give it to him as a little illustration of our problems!

we were told that .....
to brush their hair when they got home coz it breaks the headlices legs so they cant move around!!!......laying eggs

Derbac caused my daughter to get eczema......shes still suffering from it and that was about 4yrs ago.

I use Hedrin now and find it works for us but whatever you use you must repeat it seven days later incase you miss any eggs and then they would hatch and start the cycle again,

Karen

I wouldn't mind but it really is a case of keep going!

My little girl comes home with adult lice every day.

and I was spending two hours combing through her thick bottom length hair.

It drove her, and me, daft.

But the only option - as the trollope responsible will not treat her own child - was to cut it and spend four minutes a day combing it.

I cannot cuddle her until after I have got her home and combed it. Otherwise I will get them again - and i have already had to cancel two hairdressers appointments!

Derbac is a lotion same as all the others.

It's the first time I've used it but it was on the recommendation of a nurse so I'm giving it a whirl xx

any shampoo and tea tree oil ...everyday for a week AND conditioner and wash that out and comb..........just keep going

My son had them bad and I put tea tree oil on cotton wool and rubbed his head ...left over night and washed out

remember to test on skin first .........behind ear for a couple of hours

I notice someone mentioned Derbac.Is this a soap as it used to be? It was a black bar of soap.
I remember getting nits after I'd been in hospital in the 1940's,and my mum swore by Derbac soap,and I had very long hair,but would sit on a stool at my mother's knee while she brushed it with a wire brush,and once a week with a fine tooth comb.The school nurse commented on the shine on my hair,and said that she was wise to use Derbac as a regular shampoo.
It is my belief that today's shampoos are glorified detergents,and a chemist once told me that the soft green soap that you buy in a jar at the chemist's doesn't take away the natural oils,and is much better for your hair.
It seems that tea tree oil is the more natural option though than using chemicals.
Good luck girls.Glad I don't have the worry of that these days,but do feel for you in your war against nits!!

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.

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

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 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.

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