Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 34 Location: United States
Head Lice....again! Omg Help Please! Posted: 01-18-07 17:03pm
I am on the verge of shaving my five year
old daughter bald and being done with it!
A month and a half ago, my daughter got
head lice, what I would say was a
medium-bad infestation. It took three
treatments and countless hours picking
nits to get rid of it. For a full month,
there was nothing, no nits, no louse.
Nothing!! Then, we found three nits,
unhatched, in her bangs. We notified the
people she got them from the first time
(there were no questions at that time of
where it came from) they said the same
thing happened and they took their kids to
a doctor and he said all the nits showing
up on their head were dead and had been in
the hair follicle and now that the hair
shaft has grown out, they are seeing the
suffocated nits. Is this possible? My
daughter had none anywhere else, and no
presense of live bugs. We treated her
head anyway, did the sheets and couch and
floors, etc, and didn't see anything for
another week and a half. Now our in home
day care provider (our daughter goes to
school this fall) said our daughter was
scratching at her head today, and to
please check her. I did, and she has a
rash at the nape of her neck (classic
sign, right?) and tiny, tiny black specs
that you can blow on her hair and they fly
away, but all the way up in her bangs?
(possibly dirt?, or upon reading, fecal
specs?) we found one live louse on her
head, after taking two and a half hours to
pic through it about ten hairs at a time.
But here's the kicker. Not a single nit!
Not a single nit or other louse on her
head. Nowhere. What the heck is going
on? Any advise? Could this be a male or
unfertilized female that has just by it's
little lonesome been living on her head
and biting at her? This is giving me
chest pains, help!!!!
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kellysparkle
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Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 5 Location: somerset
Posted: 01-31-07 09:18am
I sympothise with you totally I have two
daughter one is 7 and one is 4 and im fed
up with nits!!
If its not my 7 year old getting them from
school then itsmy 4 year old getting them
from playschool. I to would love to just
shave both there heads!!
This was all until last october when I
found a way of keeping them at bay..
If you put t-tree on your daughters
hairwhen its wet it tends to help keep
them away..
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stevensjordon
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Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 10 Location: bristol uk
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Hi Hope This Helps Posted: 02-01-07 06:39am
I use tea tree oil on my hair as my
sisters get headlice quite alot.
Also you can use vingear sounds werid I
know but the acid in the vingear kills the
headlice so my friend tells me.
Hope this helps
would you like me to help you further with
anyother possible treatments regarding
headlice??
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