Have you ever found lice in your kids' hair and NOT reported it to the school?

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That's not a thing anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s important to report so everybody can check. If you don’t tell, it’s going to get passed around some more and you’ll end up with it again, and again. It has to be a mass effort.

Schools don't notify families about lice anymore. It is no longer 1985, Susan.

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Anonymous wrote:Ewww - endless posts about not wearing shoes in the house but yall are sending your kids to school with lice. So nasty.

Tell your kid not to touch their head to my kid's head or steal my kid's hat and they won't get lice, sweetie.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all live are super lice and don't respond to shampoo or chemical treatments. Don't even bother. We go to a lice center and they have a heat treatment plus combing that has worked every time.

Those places cost $200-300 per person. Why on earth would you do that when you can just comb your child's hair with a nit comb every day for a week? Do a search here for Lice Lady AMA, it was by far the best most informative post I've ever read on DCUM. I bought the comb she recommended and would comb my kids' hair in the bathtub once a month or whenever I saw them scratching their head in preschool. They both have had lice, but we caught and treated it both times.

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Anonymous wrote:I have only ever known one person in my life that ever had lice, and that was decades ago, just a boy in school who was almost homeless, alcoholic dad and his mother had run away, so he rarely bathed.

School shaved his head and he got to come back to class next day.

Cannot imagine anyone in this day and age having lice. How gross!

Most of the kids I know who have had lice are upper middle class white girls between ages 7 and 12. They have long hair, they use lots of hair accessories, they have sleepovers. That's where the lice are and how they spread, not from some traumatized neglected child who was humiliated at school.

Soo gross. Lice is so rare, so they must be around some really dirty people to get it.

It's gross but not even a little rare. Lice is always circulating. And it's not about dirt, just exposure to lice. They aren't dirt, they are bugs. And they are not more attracted to dirty or unbathed people -- everyone I know who has had lice is a clean person. A clean person who then got lice from another person, who likely was also clean.

Right. The lice actually prefer clean hair. Sorry to the weirdo posting "you are so gross". She clearly doesn't remember when she got lice in preschool.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all live are super lice and don't respond to shampoo or chemical treatments. Don't even bother. We go to a lice center and they have a heat treatment plus combing that has worked every time.

You can also do it at home and save a lot of money, but it takes diligence. I became good at nit combing the hard way, but now if I ever spot nits in my kid's hair (and I check weekly), I am confident I can take care of it at home. Key is multiple treatments and careful nit checks and nit combing.

The nice thing about treating it at home, in addition to not costing hundred ever time there is a lice outbreak, is that it is way less stressful for your kids. My kid knows that nit checks/comb outs are a time when she gets to sit and watch whatever TV she wants, and I'll give her a smoothie or milkshake to sip on while I do it. It takes the stress out of it and just makes it a normal grooming thing. She no longer minds the metal nit comb (which she used to absolutely hate) and in a weird way it's bonding time. We do it every Sunday evening during the school year.

I don't understand your argument at all about going to a place stressing your daughter out. How often are you finding lice? It only takes them about an hour total and my daughter gets to pick a movie to watch while they do her head of waist length hair. We've only had to get her treated twice ever, so not often. There's no need for multiple treatments or weekly nit combing. They treat her head, the nits and lice are gone, and we leave. We haven't had them come back, but if they do we wouldn't have to pay again because the service is guaranteed.

One good reason to go somewhere is that I also want my head checked and I don't trust my husband or 9 yo to do so thoroughly, as the nits are super hard to see with my hair color. We also have an au pair and it's super awkward for me to check and comb out her hair, so I'd rather have a professional do it.

Because I have three kids, they have to check all the kids and adults and treat everyone who has lice. Many hours- at least 3 for my family. But they do guarantee it for 30 days and I need that guarantee. Yea, some or one of the kids has gotten in 2-3 times. Now I am always putting my daughter’s hair back, not sharing catchers gear, no bike helmet sharing. Hopefully we are aging out.

**they have to treat all adults and kids in the household for the guarantee. It’s a racket. But I am paying.

So stupid. It's not hard to comb your own hair for lice. I've done it.

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Anonymous wrote:That's not a thing anymore.

I used to think so also, but apparently lice is a big thing in the DC area now.

It was basically erradicated in the US until recently.