Lice, Lice and more Lice

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Today should be known as lice Wednesday. I have had six cases today, four in the clinic at the same time. I am itching all over. One student is a habitual repeat offender, not her fault, but a lazy parent who likes to blame it on the school. So the mother states (in a pissy voice), "I am tired of dealing with this, she always gets it from the classroom." So I walk back to the classroom to see what's going on. The student sits at a table with 2 boys with buzz cuts and an African American girl who has her hair braided and tied up. Only three other girls in the class with long hair, all pulled up, no reports of lice. Sorry Mom your story just doesn't add up.

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Head lice...yesterday, today, and tomorrow...always reliable...gets more publicity than Zika or Ebola.

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Head lice...yesterday, today, and tomorrow...always reliable...gets more publicity than Zika or Ebola.

Hopefully, it will stay that way.

Zika *smh*

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I had 4 students in 4 different classrooms get lice. But the parents flipped out and posted all over social media that the school wasn't doing it's job.

I'm not sure how lice is being transmitted between different classrooms.

Oddly enough, our affected students are all cheerleaders. Must be a coincidence.

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I had 4 students in 4 different classrooms get lice. But the parents flipped out and posted all over social media that the school wasn't doing it's job.

I'm not sure how lice is being transmitted between different classrooms.

Oddly enough, our affected students are all cheerleaders. Must be a coincidence.

Is this, um, "public" lice?

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Parents seem to freak out more over lice than the overall heath and well-being of their children...

I have been reading other forums where parents will send their children in to the school nurse for an examination Monday morning

s/p MVC that happened Friday. And send their kids in with fever and n/v/d... oh but lice is totally unacceptable....smh...it's easily spread and easily treated.

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Specializes in School nursing.
Head lice...yesterday, today, and tomorrow...always reliable...gets more publicity than Zika or Ebola.

You'd think lice was Ebola based on some reaction about it.

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I have a drawer full of lice in the clinic that I hand out whenever I am bored:)

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Specializes in School Nurse. Having conversations with littles..
I had 4 students in 4 different classrooms get lice. But the parents flipped out and posted all over social media that the school wasn't doing it's job.

I'm not sure how lice is being transmitted between different classrooms.

Oddly enough, our affected students are all cheerleaders. Must be a coincidence.

Speaking of social media- Do any of you ever post good, evidence-based articles? I have, and love the comments that is creates. :)

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Speaking of social media- Do any of you ever post good, evidence-based articles? I have, and love the comments that is creates. :)

Oh yea...especially about vaccinations...

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Specializes in School Nurse. Having conversations with littles..

Haha yep. That's sure way to start a firestorm. :cheeky:

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Haha yep. That's sure way to start a firestorm. :cheeky:

The vaccinations, or the ellipses?

I love the vaccination threads, especially when BostonFNP lays the smack down. :bag:

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