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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not this year but my worst example of being that family was discovering at the airport on the way to my SIL’s house for Thanksgiving that my son, who was about 6 or 7, was crawling with lice. (In my defense, I had been away for a couple weeks before that dealing with a parental health crisis, so no mom eyes had been on the child’s head for a little while; my husband had just missed it.) My SIL had a baby and a toddler with long thick lustrous hair. And she had not dealt with kid lice yet, so was not inured at all to the idea. We immediately started treatment and had my son wear a hat covering his whole head while inside their house and to my knowledge nobody else got it—but I was very aware of being a SIL who could turn up in one of these “can you believe it” threads.[/quote]

It is diabolical that you still went on this visit, with a baby and toddler in the house you were visiting no less.

I had lice once as a kid, I had very long very thick hair and was so traumatized by the experience and how long it took to get rid of the lice due to aforementioned length and thickness that whenever I got the “lice email” from DC’s school I’d check them for the next three weeks. Thankfully escaped them ever getting lice but I’d be so upset if someone brought their infested kid to my house.

I had someone sort of do this on a family vacation and it sucked. Lice literally falling out of this child’s head level of infestation (I saw lice drop out of their head more than once as we were walking around or sitting at meals, I saw lice crawling on their parents/siblings shirts) and they didn’t start treatment for days because they would’ve had to have skipped the Disney portion of the trip. My skin crawls thinking about it. [/quote]

DP here. Some people on this thread are so effing dramatic about lice. We had it twice in ES (many many years ago as my kids are now almost grown) and it was time consuming but not that big of a deal. People who overreact about it are just drama queens in general. [/quote]

My daughter has had it three times at two different schools (years apart). It definitely is a thing that happens but it is a big deal! My kid had super thick textured hair and it’s super painful for her. I have had the lice lady check me and it took like 20 minutes to my kids two hours and my neck hurt for hours. My son has thin fine hair and it’s NBD for him. I would not allow the PP in my house with lice, not with a toddler especially.[/quote]

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