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[quote=Anonymous]I have lived in fear of lice since becoming a parent. I don't have anxiety about most things in life but I do about lice. Owing mostly to some really long-term lice problems my family had growing up. It was awful.

So after sailing past the early childhood years, my 11 year old somehow got lice. Here's the timeline and what happened:

Day 1 - some itching noted but we thought it was something else. But checked head daily and never saw lice. 
Day 4 - Increased itching but still no visual confirmation
Day 6 - combed with fine tooth comb and found 3 live lice. Treated that night and combed out 12-15 dead lice but had a hard time finding nits. At this point I treated my hair and we found two lice in my hair.
Day 7 - We found a live louse in my child's hair. Made an appt at lice clinic. They did heat treatment and combed my daughter out. They found 4-5 lice/nymphs and some nits, though they said not a ton. They found no lice on me and found 4-5 nits on me.

So please tell me that we likely caught this and it is over. I combed my daughters hair out today and it was 100% clean from what I could tell. But I am so worried about it reappearing. [/quote]

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