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[quote=Anonymous]First off: EWWWWW!!! Now, to business. This is our first time with lice, so please bear with me. I've searched the forums already and I found the helpful lice-lady AMA thread and a few others, so I feel like I know what I'm doing with respect to nit-picking our heads and washing/drying all of our bedding, towels, clothing and jackets worn in the past few days, etc. Now I have three remaining questions:

1. Car seat -- how to treat? Should I just wiggle a plastic trash bag around it and leave that on for a few days? If we don't even use the car seat for a few days, the lice will just die, right? In that case, is doing nothing an effective treatment?

2. Eyeglasses -- going on the assumption that I have lice too (EWWWW!!!) should I do anything to treat my eyeglasses? Boil them? Douse them in alcohol? They're prescription or I would toss them in the trash, which is where I'm going to put all of our brushes and hair ties.

3. Backpacks and purses -- since these travel near our heads, do I need to do anything special to treat them? Or if we just don't use them for a few days, is that enough to rid them of any wayward lice that may have fallen there?

Bonus question: Am I missing anything? Do you have any helpful advice to share as I embark on this lice-eradication plan tonight? I'm trying to think beyond the usual things I would throw in the laundry after any old illness (never mind an infestation of bugs...EWWWW!!!) -- any helpful tips are much appreciated. Thanks, DCUM![/quote]

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