UGH - Arlington Magazine: “Drug-Resistant ‘Super Lice’ Are Here in Northern Virginia”

[Anonymous]

Are you all experiencing this? Can’t believe the schools turn a blind eye. Crowd-sourcing advice to keep my kids lice-free!

[Anonymous]

Article here: https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/super-lice/

[Anonymous]

The key to getting rid of lice is a proper comb-out, done multiple times over a week. It takes practice to master but is not difficult.

My child has had lice several times (not recently thankfully), so I’m a pro at this, even with DD having long curly hair. I use zero drugs/special shampoos/oils/etc. A lice comb is all I need.

[Anonymous]

You are all such overachievers 😀

[Anonymous]

They've been here all along. I captured a few live ones and tried dishes of various shampoos. They went unconscious but recovered when rinsed off.

[Anonymous]

My kid had lice earlier this school year. A chemical treatment did nothing. We went to Lice Clinics of America and they took care of it. So much better than trying to get my husband to check me (dubious) and me trying to get nits of my daughter's thick, waist-length hair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The key to getting rid of lice is a proper comb-out, done multiple times over a week. It takes practice to master but is not difficult.

My child has had lice several times (not recently thankfully), so I’m a pro at this, even with DD having long curly hair. I use zero drugs/special shampoos/oils/etc. A lice comb is all I need.

Very old world LOL. This is how life was handled by my middle eastern grandparents. This may end up being a legit side gig for you pp, considering how things are going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The key to getting rid of lice is a proper comb-out, done multiple times over a week. It takes practice to master but is not difficult.

My child has had lice several times (not recently thankfully), so I’m a pro at this, even with DD having long curly hair. I use zero drugs/special shampoos/oils/etc. A lice comb is all I need.

Exactly. Good combing is the key, not drugs.

[Anonymous]

Terrible. I made my daughters go to elementary school with their hair braided and/or pulled well back (half-ups not enough -- I mean pulled back into more than a pony-tail) for years to prevent lice. That seemed to be the best prevention for us.

[Anonymous]

Before we had lice in the house, I thought lice was the equivalent of bed bugs.

I ended up calling one of those comb out services to come over and I was shocked at how misinformed I was.

Thankfully, only my DS had it, and we just combed out his hair once a day for 2 weeks and that was that. We changed his pillow case the first day on her recommendation, but that was it.

We've had it come through one more time and it was similar... an annoyance, but nothing more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They've been here all along. I captured a few live ones and tried dishes of various shampoos. They went unconscious but recovered when rinsed off.

wut

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Before we had lice in the house, I thought lice was the equivalent of bed bugs.

I ended up calling one of those comb out services to come over and I was shocked at how misinformed I was.

Thankfully, only my DS had it, and we just combed out his hair once a day for 2 weeks and that was that. We changed his pillow case the first day on her recommendation, but that was it.

We've had it come through one more time and it was similar... an annoyance, but nothing more.

How long was his hair?

[Anonymous]

Yep, about two years ago we had lice.
My dd wanted to keep some alive for a science fair project and that was a hard NO, but we did literally pour a few different Lice shampoos on them in jars. NOTHING killed those little fools.

[Anonymous]

Dimethicone seems to be the way to go now. Too bad the drugstores still sell products that don't work!

[Anonymous]

Our (public) school won’t even send lice notifications. Parents have started notifying each other anonymously via this site: https://tinyurl.com/23xmmem2. It has helped raise awareness and spread treatment/prevention best practices.