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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on April 08, 2013, 08:21:43 PM
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Oh my.
Sugarcoated (4,695 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:38 PM
My granddaughters have lice and I'm a bit freaked out
It's the second time in a couple weeks. The first time, they'd been here overnight a maybe twice and I cleaned everything furiously. I had a nurse check my hair, she found nothing. My daughter said she was diligent and thorough and got them all, cleaned everything in her apt., etc. So, I'm feeling movement on my head the past few days and don't know if it's my imagination.
Now, school found them in both girls hair again. Do I treat our hair (husband, teen son, me), then clean everything? The spare bedroom, for example, that they just slept in, after stripping the bed, if I shut the door and leave it will the lice and eggs die out? I'm going to vacuum everything everywhere, but I still won't put my head on anything expect a clean pillow case. Am I over thinking this?
Sugarcoated (4,695 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:46 PM
1. I also want to add that I've read all kinds of conflicting information on the net . . . someone here on on an old DU post said you have to put stuffed animals and pillows in the freezer to kill them and the eggs, while I've read most places it's supposed to be heat. Wash in hot water then hot drier, yet another place said put in the drier for a half hour before washing.
trof (43,493 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:47 PM
2. My daughter and family had them.
Head lice know no 'income/social status' boundaries.
Son-in-law is a $300,000+ attorney.
The kids get them at school.
She found a professional 'head lice hunter'.
Who knew that was a 'profession'?
hedgehog (30,079 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:48 PM
3. Get yourself a comb and have someone look you over.
It's not the end of the world and you don't have to sanitize everything. My daughter brought them home and gave them to me years ago. It was fun because she had very long, very curly hair the same shade as the nits! (sandy blonde) I combed her hair and shampooed it, washed my own very long hair with the shampoo, combed it out, washed the bedding, vacuumed the couch and that was about it. The real pain was getting called at work 20 miles away to come pick up my daughter!
Sugarcoated (4,695 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2013, 08:05 PM
6. I'm thinking of inviting them to stay here for a while so my daughter maybe can avoid all the work involved in cleaning her place, again, and treat the granddaughters here. I think they may have been reinfested due to her overlooking something in her apartment. It's small, cluttered and she's a single mom who is overworked and to top it off, she's got a stomach bug and still went to work today because she needs the money.
mokawanis (2,525 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:53 PM
5. it can become a nightmare that goes on and on
Not trying sound all gloomy here, but years ago when my wife and I were raising three kids we had to deal with head lice repeatedly and spent what was then a small fortune to us, around $500 during one school-year.
I wish I could recall all the details and offer sound advice, but it was a long time ago. My wife just said she thinks leaving that bedroom unoccupied for 2 weeks will kill them all, the same as putting pillows and other items into tied-off bags for 2 weeks. She also said mayonnaise killed the lice better than all the treatments we bought.
rmax (44 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2013, 08:16 PM
7. Cheap store brand extra virgin olive oil and dishwashing liquid.
We went through this a long time ago. The RID and other such things did nothing. Nitpicking did nothing. Olive oil did the trick.
Every two days, go through the same ritual. Coat everyone's hair (I mean everyone in the house) in extra virgin olive oil. It drowns the nits. Sleep on a towl over a pillow. The next morning, shower with regular (as in inexpensive) dishwashing liquid for shampoo. It's the only thing that will cut the olive oil. Wash all of the towels and pillow cases.
Rinse and repeat two days later. Do that for at least two weeks and the buggers will be gone. Don't bother wasting money on the insecticides. The don't work. We spent three months trying the insecticides and still had to go pick up the kids at school.
The other thing to remember is that it has nothing to do with hygene, household conditions, or anything else. Just hugging someone will likely infect a kid. It is often considered a stigma, but it shouldn't be. There's no social-economic boundary for parasites.
Just hug her, tell her she's a good kid and try the olive oil.
Well, at least they're not bitching about what Massa Barry's doing with social security.....
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Anybody can get them. No excuse for keeping them.
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My wife is a hair stylist. She has had to take parents into the office and show them that their children have lice. They don't do it out in the salon. Many parents insist that she cut it anyway and she has to remond them that they are not allowed to do so and that medical attention is required. Some are thanksful for being told in a respectful way. Some get angry.
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When Mooch and the girls leave the WH, will the bedrooms be cleaned? Just axin...... (http://www.conservativecave.com/Smileys/default/fuelfire.gif)
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Kids get them from school. Just use the stuff from the drug store twice, a week apart, and everyone use their own combs. No sharing. That should do it. If there are any sores or broken skin on the head, go to the doc.
I've heard the tea tree oil is good too. Tea tree oil also works on dogs hot spots.
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Simple. Burn the house.
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It's an honor for your grandchildren to be used as a food bank for lice!
Children are community property, after all.
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Kids get them from school. Just use the stuff from the drug store twice, a week apart, and everyone use their own combs. No sharing. That should do it. If there are any sores or broken skin on the head, go to the doc.
I've heard the tea tree oil is good too. Tea tree oil also works on dogs hot spots.
I've never had lice, thankfully, but I did use tea tree oil behind my ears when doing school screenings in a school with a lice outbreak and didn't get infected so it may be effective.
Lice is one of the many reasons that I wear my hair up at work.
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I never had lice and wondered what the hell was going on during the 'lice screenings' they did every year. I don't know any child that came to school with lice.
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I never had lice and wondered what the hell was going on during the 'lice screenings' they did every year. I don't know any child that came to school with lice.
I never had it, but I remember the grungy family down the road from us caused an outbreak of it in one classroom, at least.
Their parents were welfare democrats, and hated my parents. I never remember either of them working a day in their life when I was growing up. Thankfully, I stopped hanging around them the older I got.
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Aren't lice collectivists? Why wouldn't they be competing to have the most lice?
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Shave your head, DUmmie, and then wash your head with kerosene. Follow that up with a match to make sure the lice are dead.
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Head lice know no 'income/social status' boundaries.
Son-in-law is a $300,000+ attorney.
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
I know for a fact dirty families, seem to have more lice issues then others. Then they spread their infestation to other children at school. They use Medicaid to be seen by a doctor and then try to get Medicaid to pay for the OTC products. Medicaid will pay for two OTC medications per month, per patient in most cases.
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Shave your head, DUmmie, and then wash your head with kerosene. Follow that up with a match to make sure the lice are dead.
When I was young, my brother got 'em. That was how my parents got rid of them--the first sentence. My mom didn't go to the second sentence.
Our daughter went through this about a year ago, and she transmitted them to my wife. Our daughter got them from her day-care class. We're in a suburb, and all of her classmates were middle- to upper-class. Lice know no class structure. I didn't have the lice, mainly because I have very little hair to start with.
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It's an honor for your grandchildren to be used as a food bank for lice!
Children are community property, after all.
That was Hi5 worthy!
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There was a letter about some kids at daycare having lice. I was more than pissed to think my kid my bring them home to me. I have lots of hair and I am gonna kill someone if they mess with my doo. :rant:
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They're allergic to me.
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I actually got them last summer (from my boyfriend's daughter); and my hair is down past my bra strap. I just used Listerine (original); soaked my hair; and wore a shower cap over it for a couple of hours. It just took one treatment. I read about tea tree oil while doing research on how to get rid of them; but couldn't get hold of any. I also read about olive oil; but didn't want to put that in my hair.
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Shave your head, DUmmie, and then wash your head with kerosene. Follow that up with a match to make sure the lice are dead.
That explains Wee Willie Pitt's Uncle Fester phase.
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Now y'all got me scratching my head.
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Now y'all got me scratching my head.
Really? :confused:
:tongue:
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Back in 98 or so I worked at a call center, not the one I am currently at. We had, uh, "lice" in the women's room, and we had to have a conversation with EVERY single woman there to notify them of our issue. I got tons of calls from husbands/boyfriends to confirm that, as they thought they were fooling around.
Good times, that.
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Back in 98 or so I worked at a call center, not the one I am currently at. We had, uh, "lice" in the women's room, and we had to have a conversation with EVERY single woman there to notify them of our issue. I got tons of calls from husbands/boyfriends to confirm that, as they thought they were fooling around.
Good times, that.
Classy.
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Classy.
Indeed. Oh, the stories I could tell.....but I like you. You can't un-know it.
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Back in 98 or so I worked at a call center, not the one I am currently at. We had, uh, "lice" in the women's room, and we had to have a conversation with EVERY single woman there to notify them of our issue.
Good times, that.
That's funny... :rofl:
I managed a flower shop and would get calls after valentine's day from wives wanting to know about charges on their husband's credit cards. :hammer:
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It most certainly was.
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Back in 98 or so I worked at a call center, not the one I am currently at. We had, uh, "lice" in the women's room, and we had to have a conversation with EVERY single woman there to notify them of our issue. I got tons of calls from husbands/boyfriends to confirm that, as they thought they were fooling around.
Good times, that.
Did anyone actually believe the crabs came from the restroom?
Sounds like getting the clap from a toilet seat, or Magic Johnson getting AIDS from a woman.
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Did anyone actually believe the crabs came from the restroom?
Sounds like getting the clap from a toilet seat, or Magic Johnson getting AIDS from a woman.
I don't think anyone believed they came from the restroom. That's just where we spied them.
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I don't think anyone believed they came from the restroom. That's just where we spied them.
Experts disagree on head lice. Who gets it and who doesn't.
My 13 year old and I were told she had the lice, She was the only person in the family that washed her hair every day, used no conditioner or any styling products.
A teacher and school nurse came to my home to advise me on how to handle the problem. Daughter went to school with kids that greased their hair washed their hair every 6 weeks to keep the expensive corn rows in place. and they had no problem.
The school nurse and the teacher could not show me the lice or eggs in her hair, I was told that I should buy OTC lice remover and comb out the nits--there were none I could see. My daughters oldest sister went to the drug store and bought hair dye with ammonia the same color of her hair. We washed it in and figured if she did indeed have lice this would kill them.
Questions still remain on why the boys that I had to force to bath and brush their teeth, wash their hands before meals that never got lice from their sister or from anyone. Oldest daughter and I never had these problems.
Much to think about but at this time why bother. To wonder if this was a racial issue back then is possible but why bother to bring it up today ???
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Did anyone actually believe the crabs came from the restroom?
Sounds like getting the clap from a toilet seat, or Magic Johnson getting AIDS from a woman.
actually, you can get clap from a toilet seat. the bacteria can survive outside the human body for up to 48 hours, especially if it's a hot, humid climate.
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The school nurse and the teacher could not show me the lice or eggs in her hair, I was told that I should buy OTC lice remover and comb out the nits--there were none I could see. My daughters oldest sister went to the drug store and bought hair dye with ammonia the same color of her hair. We washed it in and figured if she did indeed have lice this would kill them.
Questions still remain on why the boys that I had to force to bath and brush their teeth, wash their hands before meals that never got lice from their sister or from anyone. Oldest daughter and I never had these problems.
Much to think about but at this time why bother. To wonder if this was a racial issue back then is possible but why bother to bring it up today ???
Head lice are really hard to see. They have little or nothing to do with frequent hair washing, as the nits can hold their breath when they get wet. Girls with long hair are probably more susceptible. They have to be treated with either a chemical that kills them, or certain types of oil and combing with a fine tooth comb. After the initial treatment, it should be followed up at least once about a week later to get any eggs that hatched that were missed in the first round.
If a school has an outbreak they will send home a notice on what to look for.
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A co-worker and her family rented a vacation house for a week near a ski area in February. The lady I work with ended up sleeping in a twin bed in what she described as a room decorated for little kids. Another co-worker and I spied lice in her hair soon after she got back from vacation. We could see them from several feet away. She was furious and took the rest of the day off to rid herself and her house of them. Just looking at her made me itchy.
When I lived in SC where I worked we had a customer come in who we discovered had lice. Most of us started getting itchy just thinking about it. One of our black co-workers said to another, "I'm not worried. Are you worried?" Apparently lice cannot attach to hair that has a dressing on it. Lucky ladies! The teased the rest of us for a week.
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another cool louse fact, head lice and pubic lice (crabs) are two distinct species and neither will be found on the other's home field. You want real kicks? Try scabies.
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When I was young, my brother got 'em. That was how my parents got rid of them--the first sentence. My mom didn't go to the second sentence.
Our daughter went through this about a year ago, and she transmitted them to my wife. Our daughter got them from her day-care class. We're in a suburb, and all of her classmates were middle- to upper-class. Lice know no class structure. I didn't have the lice, mainly because I have very little hair to start with.
Glad it wasn't your sister who had to go bald!
That explains Wee Willie Pitt's Uncle Fester phase.
:rotf:
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another cool louse fact, head lice and pubic lice (crabs) are two distinct species and neither will be found on the other's home field. You want real kicks? Try scabies.
and you know this how? :tongue:
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and you know this how? :tongue:
Nadin! :tongue: :whistling: O-)
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and you know this how? :tongue:
little science blurb somewhere on the first ... don't ask on the second! Oh but you did!
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A co-worker and her family rented a vacation house for a week near a ski area in February. The lady I work with ended up sleeping in a twin bed in what she described as a room decorated for little kids. Another co-worker and I spied lice in her hair soon after she got back from vacation. We could see them from several feet away. She was furious and took the rest of the day off to rid herself and her house of them. Just looking at her made me itchy.
When I lived in SC where I worked we had a customer come in who we discovered had lice. Most of us started getting itchy just thinking about it. One of our black co-workers said to another, "I'm not worried. Are you worried?" Apparently lice cannot attach to hair that has a dressing on it. Lucky ladies! The teased the rest of us for a week.
When I lived in SC where I worked we had a customer come in who we discovered had lice. Most of us started getting itchy just thinking about it. One of our black co-workers said to another, "I'm not worried. Are you worried?" Apparently lice cannot attach to hair that has a dressing on it. Lucky ladies! The teased the rest of us for a week
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I believe this, head lice do not like hair that is dressed with anything, the lice head for the super clean hair, one reason on why it is such a shock to be told a child that washes their hair every day get the nasty.
I do not know about crabs personally but in Nursing saw those with them. Like bed bugs, who knows where they come from. Sex is not the only way people get the bugs.
Ring worm and Athletes feet is another problem as is intestinal worms--pin worms or tape worms.
With all the foreign food coming in to the country we can wash it off before preparing for food, but what about the restaurants that serve this food, what are we eating away from home ???
Then when we try on clothing in a store dressing room, who knows how many others have tried a garmet on ?? A documentary took a blue light into the stores---high end and found everything from feces to body bugs and blood of all kinds.
I have been told that one eats a peck of dirt before they die.
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Then when we try on clothing in a store dressing room, who knows how many others have tried a garmet on ?? A documentary took a blue light into the stores---high end and found everything from feces to body bugs and blood of all kinds.
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well aren't you just Little Gretchen Sunshine!
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well aren't you just Little Gretchen Sunshine!
That's one of the very best reasons to keep DUmmy vestanumbers on ignore.
You don't see her moronic, offensive posts unless someone inexplicably quotes her.
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That's one of the very best reasons to keep DUmmy vestanumbers on ignore.
You don't see her moronic, offensive posts unless someone inexplicably quotes her.
So whats offencive about speaking the truth Go, check out the on line stores that sell personal protective devices to that are to be used to check out if they are being filmed in a dressing room. They must get enough orders to keep them in business.
The blue lights sold are going strong, people who travel use them to check hotel rooms for stains on the walls or on the bed. Why wonder why all the Cruse ships have a good number of passengers that come down with a virus. Who knows what was left in their room by the last passengers ?
Why do some upscale grocery stores hand out gloves to customers before they get or touch a grocery cart ??
BTW, what do you think of the Dentist that caused a riot for his patients that involved unsterilised instruments and unlicensed techs that administered IV's of some kind of medication..
Nasty world out there, no way we can protect ourselves from EVERYTHING.
I find it not offencive to post on world news with warnings about things that may someday effect someone.
So Go , you have a problem with me and it seems to be personal----So who the hell are you ???
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what did this mean, vesta? it just came out of nowhere
I have been told that one eats a peck of dirt before they die.
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I find it not offencive to post on world news with warnings about things that may someday effect someone.
Vesta dear, has anyone ever pointed at you and said, "Hey, look, it's Ben Franklin!"?
:-)
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We had a bout with them years ago when the kids were little, in a small 2x3 block neighborhood in a NJ town, the neighbor kids ranged from very well-off to one step from the projects, so who knows where they caught them. The Rid stuff worked pretty well, whoever we got the medical advice from (Doc, school nurse, or neighborhood medical professional, I don't recall) said to also wash anything cloth that might touch a head during use and if it couldn't be washed, to put it in plastic garbage bags for at least two weeks. Worked mostly, there was one minor resurgence from eggs on something that got missed apparently, but no further problems once that was dealt with.