Good Night!  I'm about ready to shoot someone [or something!]  3 weeks ago my daughter comes to me complaining that her head itches.  I look her head over and do not see anything odd except that her lymph nodes are swollen [badly swollen].  It was Christmas time so I said if it bothered her the next day to let me know and I'll take her in.  {the next day being Christmas Eve}.  The next day came and went and no complaints but Christmas day it was so bad she was crying.  Her lymph nodes were swollen to the size of large marbles so I told her that I would take her to the doctor Monday.  Monday to the doctor and he immediately diagnosed Mono.  There has been a few kids out of her school with Mono, none of which she's associated with btw but none the less the dx made sense to me [not knowing anything about mono].  I kept her on the regiment of benidryl 3 x daily and since there was no treatment for Mono - I just lightened her load as much as possible [including making her give up her starting position on her school basket ball team - which neither she nor the coach was too happy about!  but the doctor told me it was a must because she could easily rupture her spleen if she has an accident with mono.]  Well anyway no complaints from the daughter for a good week.  She started back to school last Monday with out incident but Sunday she kills over on the Alter at church [she was alter serving].  I had to drag her off the alter.  Our doctor goes to church with us so she looks her over and says to get her in to see her right away.  So I take Whitney to see her today.

Guess what she has?!  Head lice!!  She has had it for the past 3 weeks.  No mono.  [They ran blood work to confirm it].  Her head was literally crawling with it.  I feel horrible about it and I'm about to go Tango Johnny on the doctor that mis-diagnoised the head lice.  First of all, he ruined my Christmas trip as I went to my Grandfather's 90th birthday party at a fancy ski resort here in Oregon but had to leave early for fear the daughter would get the old man sick!  

I'm so darn mad!  I can't believe that darn doctor misdiagnosed this!  To make matters worse and even more stressful at the pattymcn household but my darling husband thinks to help me delouse the place means I need him to practice his guitar!  Yeah, that's a lot of help!  

I have washed and de nixed daughters hair twice.  Washed all her bedding and her brothers along with ours.  I have washed 5 loads of laundry, cooked dinner and mean while I feel as if I have bugs crawling ALL OVER ME!  [luckily none of the other 4 of us have symptoms yet!]  Plus to make matters even more worse than they are!  I have 4 dogs in season and my two male dogs are literally howling non stop!  [Thank GOD for electronic intervention!]  It's a wonder why I drink?

So, hows everyone else doing?  Patty

Quoted: not quite as traumatic as you, thankfully that sucks, is all i can come up with the key to beating lice is getting all the nits (eggs, stuck to the hair) dont ask me how i know

That's what I'm afraid of! This kid has hair down to her butt that's so darn thick it's more than 6 inches wide when bunched together in your fist!  It's a louse haven!  eooogh ickk....I itch all over just thinking of it!

Have a good night and thanks for caring!

Quoted: Hang in there Patty. This too shall pass!!!

now SigZiggy, that sounds like something my mother would say!

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Hang in there Patty. This too shall pass!!! now SigZiggy, that sounds like something my mother would say! Yes dear, now go say your prayers and get to bed. You have school in the morning.

Quoted: These things I do not understand... 1.) How in the world could the doc had said it was mono without having proof with a culture or something? 2.) Why didn't he check for lice first thing?  3.) How in the world does head lice cause one to keel over at an alter?

My daughter has a sever infection in her lymph noids because the lice have been biting her for so long.  She fainted from a fever.  I have no idea how the doctor misdiagnosed the head lice.  In his defense - I guess we were at a resort with a hot tub and maybe since she sat in the hot tub the chlorine in the water killed the lice but there were eggs.  I saw them and had him look at them closely because I have never seen lice before.  He said it was from Dandruff.  I had never known her to have dandruff before but it made sense.  He diagnoses mono on her swollen lymph noids and did draw blood.  

I think I'm going to feel like I have creepy crawlers all over me FOREVER!  Like I need a reason to be physcosamatic! [spelling?]

Patty

*ETA* Thanks for the advice - I'll pick up the tea oil shampoo today!  We have her stuffed animals bagged out in the garage [below freezing out].

Quoted: Patty, I have no advice to offer, but you should feel better now because I am itchy as can be just reading this thread!! Hang in there and I hope you daughter feels better soon.

I've been itching all day too!  I've deloused myself twice -- although everyone who has 'checked me out' says I do not have any creepy crawlers -- I haven't been checked out that throughly since posting my picture on GD!

We're all doing better and the house is so squeeky clean it's amazing!  

And for twonami No way Jose!  She has the most goregous head of hair - I've ever seen!  Of course the idea of putting her head in a bag for 30 days has been suggested by all members of the family including our 5 year old.  She is my 'difficult' one!

Patty

Quoted: Quoted: Lice are the result of some slob not washing their hair and living in a pigsty.  /Fortunately we didnt have the problem while our kids were in the loacl school district, I think I would have deloused the family responsible with a blow torch and gasoline!!  Louse borne typhus is deadly!!  Ops This is quite possibly the most ignorant post I've read all day. I think you missed the part of my post where I said my children had them and I'll assure you they were not slobs nor did they live in a pigsty.

+1 granted they are foul nasty creatures but my daughter most likely got it from hanging her coat on a coat rack at school after another kid [probably from a great family and clean home].  Shall we all stop for a second from scratching and give this a one finger salute? ..........all right back to scratching.