Likelihood of lice?
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Anonymous
You are ignorant and don't even make sense. Lice come back because the child was re-exposed. Lice can't "come back" unless they were GONE in the first place (meaning the "lazy" parents did get it all out.) |
Anonymous
all it takes is ONE missed pregnant louse to start the whole thing over. Most people are not vigilant about follow up combing. |
Anonymous
But if it was "missed" it was never gone in the first place; therefore, it is not "coming back." But OP, I have 4 kids that are now in their teens. I've received so many of those notices over the years (when they were in pre-school and early elementary.) Not a single one of my kids ever got lice, but I don't think it's something the parents have control over from home. It depends on how vigilant the school/teacher is about not allowing kids to wear each other's hats, keeping hats separate from each other, etc. Also if kids tend to put their heads together (like if one is giving the other a side hug and they put their heads against each other for a moment)...those are the kind of thing you can't do anything about from home. |
Anonymous
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My daughter has a ridiculous amount thick, wavy/curly hair, and usually wears it somewhere between chin- and shoulder-length. Had lice outbreaks in classrooms plenty of times over the years, of course, but she's never gotten them. She has so much hair that even just checking it takes forever, so I'm really glad I've never had to do a full round of treatments!
We've always used some kind of product in her hair—leave-in conditioner, detangler, anti-frizz cream, whatever we're using to try to tame the mop this month—which I think may be the main reason she's never had them. Apparently lice strongly prefer clean hair, and hers has always had something coating it, if only so we could get a comb through it. We've also had trouble finding ponytail holders that can contain her hair for long, so wearing it up probably wasn't much of a factor in not getting them. She almost always came home with her hair down, no matter what we did to it in the morning. Not to say you shouldn't bother with putting hair up, but just to say it probably wasn't the reason my daughter has never had lice. I'm fairly convinced it was because her hair always had some sort of product in it. (We never used anything lice-specific, just whatever I threw on there in a vain attempt at controlling the chaos and getting the knots out.) |
Anonymous
| My DD was once diagnosed with a scalp condition by her ped that turned out to be lice. By the time we realized it she had had it for at least 5 weeks...over Thanksgiving and Christmas. No one in our house or family members got it. Our ped said most kids have it for about 2 weeks before it is enough of a problem to be noticed. No need to panic. |
Anonymous
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OP my son got lice once in elementary school and my daughter got it once in nursery school and once in Kindergarten.
It happens, but it doesn't happen all the time! That's a good school to send home a letter letting you know to keep an eye out. If you can find them when the outbreak is small (just a few nits) it is so much easier to deal with than if it is an infestation. With my daughter she was scratching like crazy but I thought she had eczema behind her ears. If i had known to keep a lookout, I would have caught it much earlier. |
Anonymous
| 20% maybe. I’d still check their heads every day or two just to get ahead of it if you find anything. |
Anonymous
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Different species like different kinds of hair, so another factor may be the ethnic makeup of your child’s school or daycare. If your child is one of the only kids with their hair texture and thickness, they are more likely not to get lice when others do.
I am really banking on this with an Asian kid in a predominantly black school lol. |
Anonymous
We use them and got lice. |