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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS 10 got invited for 3-day beach weekend. That week lice had run through classroom. Everyone did their best to eradicate lice, of course. I got a call from my ds on friday evening. He was sitting on the porch of his friend's house; they had left him behind b/c they found lice on him. They were long gone. OK - i went and picked him up. Did the whole lice treatment thing all over again. Saturday they rang "would DS like to join us now?" Uh Certainly -drove down I-95 met them half-way. The mom gave DS a lice check while i waited. Ok - great - clean bill of health. DS got in their car and they drove off. I drove back home. As soon as i walked in the door, phone rang - "your son has lice. you must come get him. We will not allow him into our beach house" He was in SOUTH CAROLINA.

It's been years but i feel my neck getting hot as I type this. I say "can you take him to a hair dresser who will do a lice treatment? NO - they would not let him into the house.

Misery. Sheer misery. I am so glad that lice-in-classroom phase is past.[/quote]

SO ridiculous PP!![/quote]

OP I know you said the lice phase is behind you but I wanted to drop this advice here in case it is helpful to anybody who stumbles over it. My DH did some research online and found a website from a lady who found a cheap and sure way to beat lice without pesticides, a lot of money, or drama. To boil it down, you mix salt into shampoo 1:6 ratio. Work it into your kid's head and have them wear an old pillowcase secured on their head for as long as they can stand it, try at least a movie length but 40 minutes will do. The salt kills the live lice at all stages except eggs. You then rinse and liberally condition the hair and comb out the hair in the shower with a good lice comb. I used a metal bowl to swish the comb and take a louse count and you would not believe how effective the salt is at killing the lice, more effective than the Rid stuff. It dries them out. Anyway, you have to do it at least once every 4-5 days to catch new hatches. Eggs take 7-10 days to hatch and females take 7-10 days to mature so in 21 days or so you could hopefully be completely lice free. Of course you also have to take steps to change out sheets and pillow cases, clean furniture, hats jackets etc. The tools we used were a large metal bowl and large plastic spoon for mixing the shampoo and salt, a pouring cup to get most of it back into the squeeze bottle for ease of application, a lice comb, an old pillowcase and a hair tie and a two binder clip or two to help fasten it. A towel pinned around the shoulders and an old t-shirt keeps the drying shampoo off your kid's skin. The pillowcase catches lice trying to escape the salt.  
If I were your friend's mom I would not be thrilled to be hosting a lice ridden kid but I'd never leave him on the stairs (?!) and I could use this formula to help him out and ditch the drama. Compassion, people. We stumbled over this treatment and now I want to share it. 
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