It happened. The one thing I never thought I would get as a school nurse....I thought "no way it would ever happen to me, I'm way to careful". I was itching for 4 days straight, but I thought "Oh, it's probably that new shampoo I bought....". I was WAY wrong.
I had to apply 3 treatments over a span of 3 weeks to totally get rid of it. I also passed it to my poor husband and he needed 2 treatments. We treated our house of course, our cars, carpets, couches, etc. Several times. I must say, I never knew the extent of how tedious it is to get rid of until having it myself. I didn't have just 1, I had 9 adult sized lice in my hair the 1st day I did my treatment. I cried like a big baby and was mortified, not to mention I found out at work because one fell out of my head onto my papers I was writing on. I had to leave work to have my aunt apply the medicine. They allow students to stay in school with lice in my district, but there was no way I could work knowing my head was infested. So my aunt did my treatment because I didn't want to risk missing anything. I still had nymphs on my 2nd treatment, most likely because she missed a few nits. By the 3rd one, my scalp burned from the medicine and it burned my skin like crazy when I washed it off in the shower. A lot of my hair has fallen out, and still falling out now. It's thinned pretty bad. I still have dreams that I find lice in my hair. I still itch, here and there. I have a friend at work check my hair weekly. Ugh the horror.....
I got it last year! Nothing live, just nits. I had to have my sister in law, hubby and mother in law take turns combing nits out and inspecting my hair. No one else got it. Sure does make you crazy and paranoid though! Everytime I see dandruff I freak out!
We're a family of 7. In 4th grade my daughter was kind enough to bring home a head full and was able to pass it along to my wife and 2 of the 4 brothers before we caught on and started the battle. I consider myself a lice expert but the standard treatments didn't do the trick. I finally ended up having to get the zillion dollar per ounce industrial/agricultural prescription treatment to totally eradicate those buggers. I though my wife was going to need counseling before it was all over. I think she would have handled getting ebola better than head lice.
Seriously, if anyone brought home lice, scabies, bedbugs, etc. you'd probably just have to burn my house down. There are 7 people and 2 dogs living there and it's impossible to get it decently clean on a normal day. Add breeding parasites into the mix? Armageddon.
As a preventative measure, upon daily waking, place a few drops of pure tea tree essential oil onto a bristle boar brush and brush the scalp and hair thoroughly. You can also put a few drops into your shampoo and conditioner.
SassyTachyRN
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I got it last year! Nothing live, just nits. I had to have my sister in law, hubby and mother in law take turns combing nits out and inspecting my hair. No one else got it. Sure does make you crazy and paranoid though! Everytime I see dandruff I freak out!