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Glam
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Blimey, how quick has the last week just gone?!
staffordjas
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Mine came back in the clothes he went away in. Everyone else came off the coach hauling their black bin bags full of dirty washing. Mine just had the suitcase complete with all the neatly packed clean clothes still unworn and neatly packed .
shoes
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Well, at least that saved you some work!Mine came back in the clothes he went away in. Everyone else came off the coach hauling their black bin bags full of dirty washing. Mine just had the suitcase complete with all the neatly packed clean clothes still unworn and neatly packed .
staffordjas
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Except he did have a shower each day (he never thought of taking his clean clothes in to the shower room with him, so the filthy ones went back on!) , and the sopping wet towel was placed nicely inside the case on top of all the nice clean clothes.. aargh!
kyoto49
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Mine came back in the clothes he went away in. Everyone else came off the coach hauling their black bin bags full of dirty washing. Mine just had the suitcase complete with all the neatly packed clean clothes still unworn and neatly packed .
It' a boy thing. most never change either...........
Gadget
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A few years back when I was struggling to get rid of an infestation and nothing was working, I took to coating spawns head and hair in baby oil on a Friday night and leaving it in till Sunday, then I'd run the nit comb through (they'd all be dead by then) then use extremely cheap shampoo added direct to oily hair, no water, rubbing it in well then rinsing. Repeat that till oil has gone, may take a while. Hair is left extremely soft and all of the lice and most of the nits will have suffocated. Saved me a fortune.Spent the morning looking for nits - found 2. When will this ever end.....I reckon if I came up with an effective treatment for them - I could be a billionaire within weeks...
littleme
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Sounds like a good tip for next time I run out of stuff, although recently we just keep loads of the Hedrin stuff in the house as I seem to forever be getting rid of them -will it ever end?!
littleme
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4 More years?! Noooooooooooooooo!
kyoto49
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Spent the morning looking for nits - found 2. When will this ever end.....I reckon if I came up with an effective treatment for them - I could be a billionaire within weeks...
My daughter went to a school where the teacher once told me you could literally see the whole scalp on some kids 'moving' with the volume of lice. YUKKKKK. With careful managment she only got lice just twice, and only in small numbers even with very long hair.
My top tips:
They hate the smell of Vosene shampoo..........weirdly my Mum swore by Vosene when I was a kid and none of my numerous brothers or sisters every got lice, so maybe there's something in my old Mums beliefs. Other than Vosene, tea tree oil shampoo has a similar if slightly stronger effect.
Nothing beats a nit comb, conditioner and time to comb. Forget anything you buy from the chemist, not only is it unpleasant to put strong chemicals on childrens scalps, they really don't work. Save your money!!!
Use a Nitty Gritty Head Lice comb, they are the only ones that actually work
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nitty-Gritty-Head-Lice-Metal/dp/B001PML6Y6
Tie every strand of hair up when your daughter is in school
Nit comb every single weekend, regardless of any of the little blighters have been seen, if only for the peace of mind.
Don't despair, it does get easier!!!
As an aside, when we visited friends in South Africa when my daughter was 8 she was lucky enough to get the chance to spend a couple of days at the local village school, the type of African bush school filled with both rich white kids and poor township kids. Wonderful I thought until 10 days later she's scratching her head raw. Seems this wonderful village school shared more than culture with her, and I found myself on a balcony over looking the Indian Ocean with a bottle of conditioner and a nit comb cleaning her of thousands of the little gits!!! Wasn't sure whether to laugh at my situation or cry!!!
hope this helps
littleme
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It wasn't King Eddies was it? A teacher there told me that they had to cut one girls bun off as they could see the whole thing moving!
I do everything you've mentioned, with the addition of the horrible chemical stuff.. I think half of the trouble is that the school won't send letters out like they used to & a lot of parents just don't bother checking the kids hair......Its never ending....
kyoto49
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No, it was a primary school!! Agree, the not sending letters thing is infuriating. Despite our South Africa experience and my daughter's school having a specialism in 'kids with headlice', my daughter never got them after year 3/4 so don't despair!! Have you spoken to your daughter about not getting her head close to other kids heads? I found this little chat helped enormously, once she understood how she caught the little gits I don't think she ever got them again. Keep the faith!
littleme
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I've talked till I'm blue in the face, I even got really evil just before Christmas & had her waist length hair cut to shoulder length! She must spend the whole time at school with her head stuck on the other kids heads! My 2 older boys went to the same school & only got them a couple of times - but daughter seems to get them every few weeks (yes, I've checked our hair too) - I should of known our streak of luck would run out soon (mothers day was the last time I found any critters) especially when she got off the school coach with her hair down & not brushed fir a whole week!
kyoto49
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Well at least you haven't given her a number two - yet!! That was what one cruel parent did to her daughter in reception class. Rather than deal with the lice and nits she gave her daughter a crew cut
Saddest sight I ever saw. And confused my daughter so much that she said there was a boy in her class called Chloe (name changed to maintain the poor childs identity)