*hugs you back* Yeah. Being a Mom is not for the faint of heart. I know her hair will grow again... she doesn't want to go back to school until she regains those lost inches. *sigh* I think she's adorable... I just need to convince her of that.
What method did you use for nit picking? I floundered during my first bout with lice and long haired girls but when bugs went through the schools the next year I found a better solution and workable method.
Of course when they gave them to me I just dyed my hair. Killed the little suckers deader than a door nail. And their eggs, too.
Well, for the first few weeks I used a homeopathic gel called Lice Ice. It actually worked really well, but I bought the red-handled metal combs to comb through. What I wound up having to do is comb through bit by tiny bit and slide the eggs down the hair strand with my fingernails. I never saw a live bug doing this until VERY recently. (Can I tell you I was completely grossed out?!) Finally, last night I broke down and bought RID Shampoo and the little purple plastic comb that came with it? combed out more eggs than I had found. (Which was a big YAY!)
Now I'm going to do it again in 5 days and hope that's the last of it.
What method did you use? I'm all about improving my style. *grin* Thanks for this.
The trouble with RID is that it doesn't kill eggs.
What I do use is a somewhat complicated, but effective method that starts with saturating the hair with a combination of tea tree and eucalyptus oil, followed blow drying the oil covered head as long as the kid can stand it, then I pick my way through the hair one small section at a time (about a 2 inch square of scalp) marking it off from the unpicked hair by braiding it. Then I leave the oil on the braided hair over night and go through each head again, through the same process in reverse, going over each section as it is unbraided.
I managed to pick two girls with midback hair completely clean this way. Lice are such a problem in our area that kids have to be inspected at the local health department before they are allowed to return to school. When I came in to have mine inspected the health nurse wanted to make us the poster family for nit removal. So it's a pretty good method. I hate to say this, but as a seasoned mother of three, this is probably not your last run in with bugs
I have to say - it's a pretty dark day when your "good news" is that you got a new nit comb. Julie says "This path is not for sissies!" Clearly, I'm remembering now, mommiehood is not for sissies either -
Yeah. In the midst of her tears, I tried to tell her it was fall and this is the time when we prune back our branches in preparation for winter and the new spring growth that will come back far prettier... I got a dirty look. *sigh* In all fairness, I didn't think it was going to be that short when I started clipping away. Oops.Yeah, being a Mom isn't for sissies. Especially not when you have a strong-willed Taurus who's given to bouts of uber dramatic flair.
Sorry you are both going through all of this. Unfortunately, those little buggers are EVERYWHERE! At least where the kids are!
My daughter (nanny/child-care provider) found a great treatment, and it seems to work very well for her. She would soak her head and hair down with olive oil, let it stay on for an hour, and all the bugs were dead. She also had a heck of a hair conditioning along with it. You still have to go back to get the eggs, but it worked without the Rid stuff being involved.
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Yeah. Being a Mom is not for the faint of heart.
I know her hair will grow again... she doesn't want to go back to school until she regains those lost inches. *sigh*
I think she's adorable... I just need to convince her of that.
Thanks, sweetie.
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I floundered during my first bout with lice and long haired girls but when bugs went through the schools the next year I found a better solution and workable method.
Of course when they gave them to me I just dyed my hair. Killed the little suckers deader than a door nail. And their eggs, too.
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Now I'm going to do it again in 5 days and hope that's the last of it.
What method did you use? I'm all about improving my style. *grin*
Thanks for this.
*Hugs*
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What I do use is a somewhat complicated, but effective method that starts with saturating the hair with a combination of tea tree and eucalyptus oil, followed blow drying the oil covered head as long as the kid can stand it, then I pick my way through the hair one small section at a time (about a 2 inch square of scalp) marking it off from the unpicked hair by braiding it. Then I leave the oil on the braided hair over night and go through each head again, through the same process in reverse, going over each section as it is unbraided.
I managed to pick two girls with midback hair completely clean this way. Lice are such a problem in our area that kids have to be inspected at the local health department before they are allowed to return to school. When I came in to have mine inspected the health nurse wanted to make us the poster family for nit removal. So it's a pretty good method. I hate to say this, but as a seasoned mother of three, this is probably not your last run in with bugs
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Thinking good thoughts for both of you -
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In all fairness, I didn't think it was going to be that short when I started clipping away. Oops.Yeah, being a Mom isn't for sissies. Especially not when you have a strong-willed Taurus who's given to bouts of uber dramatic flair.
*Hugs you*
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My daughter (nanny/child-care provider) found a great treatment, and it seems to work very well for her. She would soak her head and hair down with olive oil, let it stay on for an hour, and all the bugs were dead. She also had a heck of a hair conditioning along with it. You still have to go back to get the eggs, but it worked without the Rid stuff being involved.
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