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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who are purchasing lice combs, I recommend buying two.  That's what we did so DH could comb one kid's hair and I could do another.  With our DD (who had the worst infestation), We both worked on her hair.  It made it go much faster.

If you discover your child has lice, please notify the camp/school/daycare they attend.  I'm sure my DD picked her infestation up at a camp.  We believe she had it a good month before we noticed it.  We immediately notified her camp and they were so very appreciative.  Two other campers had it as did one staff member.  I don't believe my DD was the source of their infestation because it was only the second day of camp but it's nice to be alerted that it's going around.[/quote]

OP again, my advice to parents who care is start advocating for a school wide, classroom wide, camp wide "lice check".  An experienced mom in your group can do it if you don't want to pay!  But I really believe that screening and treating the whole group at one time is a HUGE help in combating the spread of lice.  People are just too mortified to do this, which is silly.  Would you be mortified if you caught a cold?[/quote]

Let's examine the illogic of the above proposed "lice check"

Why stop at screening at the camp or day care or school. My goodness, the source could be "that neighbor kid" or DH's nephews who spend Saturdays with after Hebrew school or baseball practice.

So, actually, what we need is for every mother in Washington to screen their child's head RIGHT NOW, go for it ... remember: don't miss a strand of hair

wait...what about your friend who is just now entering the beltway with her kids , ooops they could be bring " it " with them

Let's have Amtrak workers and cops on highways pulling cars over to " check for lice so no one " with it" enters the beltway

Oh, SH=T, wait what about the kids getting off airplanes who picked it up in Cali, coming for Thanksgiving. Can we get Homeland security screening for it !

Now, remember, ALL OF THAT screening is only good for about one day because: in just one day two undetected nits can hatch and start to grown and then in 8 days you have a nymph close to breeding age and sh+ T , got to go right back and mass screen everyone entering the beltway again .

Hint: that HIV test is good for only up tot he next time you have unprotected sex. There is NO SUCH thing as " I know I don't have it "  Unless of course, you don;t have unprotected sex ever and, with lice, unless your child never comes within 3 feet of another kid in their entire life. [/quote]

Indeed.  Why bother to lice comb at all when you can just catch lice again?  Why bother to take a bath or even clean the house?

If everyone lice combed their child at home once a week, it would go a long way to ending the severe lice problems we seem to have now.  I don't think humanity will every eradicate lice, but some of us may wish to reduce its prevalence.

- OP[/quote]

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