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Posted: 12/18/2018 10:59:53 PM EDT

My child has been exposed to head lice. That’s just great.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:01:53 PM EDT

[#1]

Did they check your kids hair? Did you?

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:02:22 PM EDT

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Better exposed to head lice than liberalism.

They should send a letter for that.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:02:53 PM EDT

[#3]

3 cases of head lice in my boys' room

3 cases of strep in my daughter's

Merry Christmas

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:04:25 PM EDT

[#4]

Clean sheets for everyone!!

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:06:16 PM EDT

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The letter doesn’t say if they did. I didn’t because she was already in bed by the time I saw it. It got separated from her other papers and I happened to just notice it.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:07:20 PM EDT

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We fought that every year our kids were in elementary.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:07:39 PM EDT

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Good times. Better get to combing the nits out.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:08:25 PM EDT

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Its no big deal.

Special shampoo, fine toothed comb.

Fumigate his PJs and bedclothes.

Then he can go back to school tomorrow and catch them right back!

BTDT.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:08:26 PM EDT

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This is a first for me. They are not a common thing here in the frozen tundra.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:08:50 PM EDT

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Better exposed to head lice than liberalism.

They should send a letter for that.

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Posted: 12/18/2018 11:11:56 PM EDT

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The Office says a mayonnaise coating will kill it.

Bring out the Hellman’s. Bring out the best.

Merideth from The Office went scorched earth and shaved her head.

Lord help me if I ever get lice, my family would not know me. Hoping for the best Assman.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:12:25 PM EDT

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Btdt with my kiddos. Very annoying, but thankfully there is no disease or illness exposure. And it has nothing to do with pets, or how “clean” you or your home is.

Now, they probably sent that letter home with every child. Might not mean your child has lice.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:14:02 PM EDT

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The local school district policy is to not send the infected child home. Apparently it is better to expose the other children than embarrass the kid.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:15:21 PM EDT

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3 cases of head lice in my boys' room

3 cases of strep in my daughter's

Merry Christmas

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Posted: 12/18/2018 11:16:59 PM EDT

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Btdt with my kiddos. Very annoying, but thankfully there is no disease or illness exposure. And it has nothing to do with pets, or how “clean” you or your home is.

Now, they probably sent that letter home with every child. Might not mean your child has lice.

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Don’t think she does but will definitely be checking in the morning. This was an exposure notice. Usually they are about strep or the flu. This is a new one to me.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:18:14 PM EDT

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Monthly lice checks are standard practice here for my daughter. It's not as bad now that she is in elementary school, in daycare/preschool it seemed like lice checks where weekly events and buying the shampoo and spray happened every grocery run. Goddamned shithead "parents" that send their fucktrophies to school with whatever-the-fuck illness they have that week

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:19:19 PM EDT

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I'll get the clippers

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:19:45 PM EDT

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When I was a kid they did like an annual inspection. A nurse would come in and check everyone's head for bugs. You always new who had em because next day a couple kids would show up with shaved heads.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:20:30 PM EDT

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Atleast you got a letter, at my kids school they aren't allowed to send letters home because feels. So if my kids get exposed we get to find out after, our whole house and everybody we know has fucking bugs.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:21:23 PM EDT

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Gross neglect. Call CPS on yourself.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:21:47 PM EDT

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Atleast you got a letter, at my kids school they aren't allowed to send letters home because feels. So if my kids get exposed we get to find out after, our whole house and everybody we know has fucking bugs.

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I have family down south so I know these things go around there but it’s very rare to hear of them here.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:25:13 PM EDT

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Let me sing you the song of my people.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:26:02 PM EDT

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Sure would hate to do that to a 6yo girl.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:27:55 PM EDT

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Sure would hate to do that to a 6yo girl.

I have two boys so... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:38:58 PM EDT

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Its no big deal.

Special shampoo, fine toothed comb.

Fumigate his PJs and bedclothes.

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Posted: 12/18/2018 11:39:55 PM EDT

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Better exposed to head lice than liberalism.

They should send a letter for that.

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Posted: 12/18/2018 11:40:07 PM EDT

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Shave the head pronto. Only choice OP. Only cure

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:42:10 PM EDT

[#28]

You know where that is coming from right?

Build the wall!

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:44:28 PM EDT

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Its no big deal.

Special shampoo, fine toothed comb.

Fumigate his PJs and bedclothes.

Then he can go back to school tomorrow and catch them right back!

BTDT.

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This. You must get all nits, i.e. eggs, out. I think the stuff you spray on the hair and let dry might work better than the shampoo, but combing it all out is still most important. Also, a week after the first go-round repeat the treatment, no matter what.

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:48:04 PM EDT

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The Office says a mayonnaise coating will kill it.

Bring out the Hellman's. Bring out the best.

Merideth from The Office went scorched earth and shaved her head.

Lord help me if I ever get lice, my family would not know me. Hoping for the best Assman.

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This, my kids got em at school 2x growing up, had less than no luck with just the shampoo, and nit combs with two girls with hair down to thier ass's. Mayo did the trick, but made eating BLTs next july a lil weird........

Posted: 12/18/2018 11:50:17 PM EDT

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My ex wife did, her whole family agreed with me that she was a cunt........ she had them a year prior under my care as well, I took care of it without shaving her hair.....

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:00:40 AM EDT

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Shave the head pronto. Only choice OP. Only cure

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It’s not the only cure, but it is the easiest.

Head lice lay their eggs on head hair. No hair = no lice

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:02:13 AM EDT

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My kids got them last year.

The over the counter shampoos did not work, and the nit combs that came with them were junk. I bought a couple terminator nit combs of Amazon, they worked very well. They get nits and the eggs.

Also used a hairdryer. Desiccating the bugs and eggs kills them.

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:03:59 AM EDT

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Merry Itchmas, OP

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:04:30 AM EDT

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I'll add that one to the list of why we keep our kids at home for their education.

Thanks for that OP!

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:06:41 AM EDT

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Not a big deal. Happens with kids. We had a kid bring them to baseball - 10 out of 12 players got them and 3 of MY kids. Shit happens.

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:09:17 AM EDT

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Lice are getting resistant to most of the commercial treatments now .

Comb , shave , Mayo , or RX

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:17:19 AM EDT

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I gaved up on trying to point people toward proper medical information, but sometimes

the simple reading version
https://familydoctor.org/condition/head-lice/

the more medical worded version
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/135/5/e1355

main points - check everyone for lice
don't go and fumigate the house if there are lice, because they don't survive long off a person's head
shampoo with the treatment, and re-shampoo in 9 days if lice still present

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:21:58 AM EDT

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How many "immigrants" do you have in your daughters school?

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:25:57 AM EDT

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We fought that every year our kids were in elementary.

This is a first for me. They are not a common thing here in the frozen tundra.

I think you will find they are more common than you think. As someone above said not a real big deal. the biggest problem is parents and how they act.

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:29:13 AM EDT

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as I read the OP aloud to my wife, I can watch her start to twitch alittle and scratch, I can see she isn't comfortable hearing this.

chuckling to myself

she says it would be better than bed bugs

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:32:51 AM EDT

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Earlier this year we got a call from daycare that hand foot and mouth broke out. My son caught it. And since it is rare in adults... I caught it too...... 3 weeks of pain. Thankfully it was only on my feet and the same with my son. It destroyed my feet.

The head lice scare was bath and shampoo and changing/washing bedding every day.

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:33:25 AM EDT

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When I was a kid they did like an annual inspection. A nurse would come in and check everyone's head for bugs. You always new who had em because next day a couple kids would show up with shaved heads.

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same here.

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:33:58 AM EDT

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as I read the OP aloud to my wife, I can watch her start to twitch alittle and scratch, I can see she isn't comfortable hearing this.

chuckling to myself

she says it would be better than bed bugs

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My ex would have literally set the house on fire upon reading the letter. She has a huge phobia.

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:35:18 AM EDT

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We got one yesterday as well, 2nd grade

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:36:35 AM EDT

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I gaved up on trying to point people toward proper medical information, but sometimes

the simple reading version
https://familydoctor.org/condition/head-lice/

the more medical worded version
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/135/5/e1355

main points - check everyone for lice
don't go and fumigate the house if there are lice, because they don't survive long off a person's head
shampoo with the treatment, and re-shampoo in 9 days if lice still present

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and you can get permethrin at your local farm store for far less than walmart, and in a greater quantity as well

Posted: 12/19/2018 12:47:15 AM EDT

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The local school district policy is to not send the infected child home. Apparently it is better to expose the other children than embarrass the kid.

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Sadly, disgracefully, this is the de facto standard...

In fact, I was personally informed recently, that even when they know exactly WHO the child is with head lice, they WILL NOT treat it as a "communicable" issue/virus/disease/bacteria/threat - and they WILL NOT even request that the kid stay home from school!!!

So basically...ALL KIDS WITH TONS OF HAIR LICE, FLEAS, SCABIES, CRABS, and ANYTHING ELSE - YOU ARE WELCOME AT OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!! INFECT AWAY!!!...