Are you one of those mums who doenst bother getting rid of nits?

[charliecat]

Whats your excuse

[codsicle]

yes i love them in the pubic area


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[expatinscotland]

Gag! NO WAY!

[SleepySuzy]

Oh my Codsicle!

[Toothache]

OMG! Why would anyone not treat it?????? I've had nits and it was sooooo itchy and uncomfortable.

[charliecat]

Well there always seems to be 1 mum who doesnt in each class, whos kid is riddled, I wondered if there was anyone brave enough to confess to being that mum

[codsicle]

think tis education adn poverty realated
lets be honest

[TinyGang]

lol - Who on earth would actually admit to that!??

[charliecat]

Im thick and skint but I can still use a nit comb...lol

[SleepySuzy]

I hate headlice.

[Nightynight]

do you really have absolute, concrete proof that there are some mums who don't bother to get rid of nits ever, or are they just a bit slow diagnosing them?

[MarsLady]

we live in a very well to do area and trust me it's nothing to do with poverty. Sheer laziness in my mind.

[charliecat]

Is that a confession Do you hate them so much you leave them to breed? !!

[starshaker]

ok this will really get u all going.

a friend of mine and her dp get to see his dd now and again his ex is a total bitch and is a bit dim. the dd had nits and the mum said if my friend got rid of them she would get her done with asault

[Nightynight]

I read ages ago that nits were kept going by a small band of grown ups, who had had them for years and never did anything about it.

[triceratops]

I know someone who doesn't deal with it effectively. She just does a couple of wet combs and then leaves it. She says that her daughter catches them again within a fortnight. But I think it is because they are never gone.

Poor little girl always has worms too because her mum can't deal with washing all the bedding.

[charliecat]

SS And her reasoning?

[Nightynight]

would that be gbh on the nits then?

[starshaker]

shes a nutter

[Cam]

Am I right in thinking untreated nits can cause a generalised illness after a while?

[MarsLady]

no no charliecat my lovely. I have daughters with incredibly thick hair. It's the bane of my life. Takes me blimming ages to get rid of them and causes a great deal of upset. Then to find that some lazy parent hasn't bothered to deal with her child cos they'll only get them again

[bonym]

Come on, ^no-one> is going to admit to that! (It's not me btw - they are the bane of mt life though...)

[charliecat]

DD1 has a friend whos hair is blond and the nits wander along the wispy bits wave and then go hide again. No joke.

[Catbert]

Do they send children home these days if spotted?

I have to ashamedly admit to having had the (probably) for ages (as my DD was only 1, and I wasn't in the habit of checking regularly - well, to be fair I really didn't think we were in "that" place yet!) and my head was itching (but I get dermatitis occasionally, but my shampoo for this really wasn't cutting the mustard) so whilst telling my sis in the phone, she said "Are you SURE you havn't got nits, and so I had a little look through DD1s hair and to my horror saw a REALLY BIG ONE scuttling through. That's when she told me if they get that big, you've probably had them for a while... OH THE SHAME...

Anyway - MUCH combing for me (PG, and no chemicals allowed) and a dose of something or other for DD and we were free... But it was the embarassement of having to tell everyone to check because of us .

Now I am the only one who regularly checks still, and I get quite irritated that if we get them again, I will be the one who discovers them first and tells everyone, and I shall somehow get labelled as the one who is responsible.

I think I have rant-lock switched on ...

[magnolia1]

Having 4 kids, 3 of at school, we tea tree condition every 2 days and nit comb every 2 days too. If I didn't there would always be one of them coming home from school with the little buggers and this is the only way I can keep on top of it.

[SleepySuzy]

I used to love it when the "nit nurse" came.