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 am one of those people. I used to like you, kidzcare, but now? I just don't know...
I am a proud geek too.
Star Wars, episodes 4-6. Star Trek, the original and TNG. I like super heroes. Batman is probably my favorite. I dig the villains, too. Not a Family Guy fan, but I do like the "Mom. Mom. Mommy. Mom. MOM. MOMMY. LOIS!!" clip, and I like to quote that at my kids when they say my name too many times.
LOTR- never got into that although I did like the movies. Legolas is dreamy.
I would go see The Avengers AND Pitch Perfect 2 in the same day!!
You had me until "Legolas is dreamy." Also prefer Spiderman to Batman, but I'll let you slide on that.
LOTR- The books are ALWAYS better than the movies. Always.
Well I have always been fascinated with elves and elven lore. I used to read the Dragonlance Chronicles when I was in high school (like all 99 of them. Multiple times.) So seeing Legolas on screen kind matched up with my version of what elves look like. So yes, Legolas was dreamy to me. I honestly don't understand how I never got into the LOTR books when I was younger because they would have been right up my alley back then.
I should start reading them, but I am working my way through the Outlander series right now. If only darn work and family responsibilities didn't get in the way of my reading time!!
I was joking too. :) Just trying to keep the "lice" theme going.
I thought you probably were being facetious, but, ya know... Internet. No tone to convey sarcasm. Didn't want you calling my school to tell the their nurse is mildly incompetent :)
When my daughter got lice we did one lice treatment (something from Walmart, don't remember the name), then waited two more weeks to do the second one (I think that's what the directions were anyway). Her ped said that the olive oil or mayo method works because lice breathe through holes in their body and the oil (or mayo) clogs up the holes, essentially suffocating the lice. So we did a mayo treatment for good measure as well, maybe the next night after we did the first treatment, I actually don't remember.
Somehow we were really successful after the very first treatment, the next day when I checked her she had one egg and that was it. Never found anything after that so I think the initial combing is what is really important.
Farawyn
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You had me until "Legolas is dreamy." Also prefer Spiderman to Batman, but I'll let you slide on that.
LOTR- The books are ALWAYS better than the movies. Always.