Anonymous
03/11/2024 18:12
Subject: Re:I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Happy to have found this thread after live epidemic at DD’s school. It’s a private and could afford a life clinic or some parent education but they do nothing
Anonymous
11/16/2023 23:17
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Appreciate this thread!
Anonymous
08/09/2019 13:44
Subject: Re:I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What age(s) do you see the most incidents of lice? have a seven-year-old that has not had it yet, but this thread makes me think it is coming soon...
With my kids, it started in about 2nd grade. It has continued now through the fifth grade.
In the last week, however, I have seen three girls in about the 8th grade.
Do you often see clusters of kids from the same school/neighborhood? Do you encourage families to give their friends a heads up? My kids got it from sharing helmets at Calleva a few years ago. Just tell people so everyone can check and comb out!
I wouldn't say I see clusters. I get calls all over the NOVA area. I have been in some very fancy, nice houses and some regular homes (like my own). Rich, poor, nice school districts, no one is immune. Just like everyone can catch a cold or the flu, anyone can catch lice.
I swear I got lice one time from one brief, momentary hug of another mom friend. The louse took the opportunity to climb from her to my head. It just takes an instant of casual contact. Lice are very, very good at what they do.
Anonymous
08/09/2019 13:42
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Anonymous wrote:Where do you find a live lady? Do you take your kid to pediatrician if you suspect something?
A lice lady like Lice Happens will charge you to come to your house, so sure, take them to a Dr. if you don't feel confident in diagnosing. But if you follow my advice and 1) already have (several) licemeister combs around and 2) preventively comb out your child's hair, you are going to be able to diagnose lice yourself. Just keep combing in the bath each night until you don't find anymore lice/eggs and then you can go to doing it one a week.
Anonymous
07/23/2019 23:00
Subject: Re:I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What age(s) do you see the most incidents of lice? have a seven-year-old that has not had it yet, but this thread makes me think it is coming soon...
With my kids, it started in about 2nd grade. It has continued now through the fifth grade.
In the last week, however, I have seen three girls in about the 8th grade.
Do you often see clusters of kids from the same school/neighborhood? Do you encourage families to give their friends a heads up? My kids got it from sharing helmets at Calleva a few years ago. Just tell people so everyone can check and comb out!
Anonymous
07/23/2019 22:46
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
*Lice* Lady
Anonymous
07/23/2019 22:46
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Where do you find a live lady? Do you take your kid to pediatrician if you suspect something?
Anonymous
07/23/2019 22:26
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Anonymous wrote:My daughter had lice last week, and we were treated by a lice lady. We’ve been combing daily since then using the lice lady’s foam. With 6 days of combing we’re still finding nits each time (and now some of them are small nymphs). How long should we expect to continue finding them? Is this normal to keep finding them daily? Her infestation seemed to be relatively small. The lice lady found four adult bugs and nothing else (no nits), so it seemed she had only recently caught it from someone with a bad infestation (that was the lice lady’s guess). Help!
Sounds like you are not combing long enough each time. The blog I followed (the nice life lady) recommended counting strokes to 100 and starting over at zero every time you find something. Do this every 2-3 days. I didn’t stop until I’d had 3 combings in a row (9 days) of finding literally nothing.
And I don’t know what foam you are referring to. We just washed hair, then left the conditioner in for the combing.
http://thenicelicelady.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-remove-head-lice-from-someone.html?m=1
http://thenicelicelady.blogspot.com/2016/04/no-cleaning-no-cry.html?m=1
Anonymous
07/23/2019 21:35
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
My daughter had lice last week, and we were treated by a lice lady. We’ve been combing daily since then using the lice lady’s foam. With 6 days of combing we’re still finding nits each time (and now some of them are small nymphs). How long should we expect to continue finding them? Is this normal to keep finding them daily? Her infestation seemed to be relatively small. The lice lady found four adult bugs and nothing else (no nits), so it seemed she had only recently caught it from someone with a bad infestation (that was the lice lady’s guess). Help!
Anonymous
07/16/2019 10:23
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Anonymous wrote:https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/401192.page
Dude, you just linked to this same thread.
Anonymous
07/16/2019 10:20
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What should we do when our kid keeps getting assigned to share field trip motel rooms with the kid who has lice but also skin allergies so his parents won’t do anything about the lice on him or in their house?
Just keep lice combing YOUR kid preemptively one a week and you won't have a problem.
You don’t need to use a product that would cause an allergic reaction. That kid’s parents could comb too.
+1
Lazy parents keep getting lice in their house, from experience.
Anonymous
07/16/2019 08:59
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Anonymous
06/20/2019 14:29
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What should we do when our kid keeps getting assigned to share field trip motel rooms with the kid who has lice but also skin allergies so his parents won’t do anything about the lice on him or in their house?
Just keep lice combing YOUR kid preemptively one a week and you won't have a problem.
You don’t need to use a product that would cause an allergic reaction. That kid’s parents could comb too.
Anonymous
06/20/2019 12:10
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Anonymous wrote:What should we do when our kid keeps getting assigned to share field trip motel rooms with the kid who has lice but also skin allergies so his parents won’t do anything about the lice on him or in their house?
Just keep lice combing YOUR kid preemptively one a week and you won't have a problem.
Anonymous
04/18/2019 10:29
Subject: I am a Lice Lady. AMA
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh wow, this is a very old thread.
It is, but it's one of those that should be bumped up periodically
Agreed! My kids are in DCPS and neither of them ever had lice before this school year. This year they both had it at different times. We were totally wigged out by it. Now anytime ANYONE scratches their head, we're like a pack (tribe? troop?) of monkeys checking each other for creepy crawlies.
Now I'm itchy.