littlek wrote:
lice
What sort and how many?
(Thanks for your thoughts folks...today I eat again!)
Head lice. My neice definitely has it. We can't quite tell if anyone else does. All in her family are doing the RIT thing and washing bedding, etc. But we think I don't have it. Do I RIT anyway?
you don't have it. what's RIT? i think you're a-okay. (but i'll sleep in the office for a week!)
RIT makes a line of products to deal with lice (and bedbugs). I brought home a kit (furniture spray, shampoo, de-nitting gel, comb). I sprayed the back seat of the car (where the kids sit) and the couch they sat on last week to watch movies (yes, THAT couch.....sorry). I am washing their carseat covers and my bedding. I think I will skip the shampoo part......
ACK
... we'll be all fine. Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
(now...the thought that the homeboy left with lice is not untempting though...)
Dasha, you have wonderfully beautiful hands.
old farmers cure for lice--kerosene.
info for 26 millions vets was lost - some jerk took home a laptop and usb drive
dagmaraka wrote:you don't have it. what's RIT? i think you're a-okay. (but i'll sleep in the office for a week!)
Dag and littlek sleep together.
As Paris Hilton would say, "that's cold." Or something.
littlek wrote: lice
We called them "nits" when I was in primary school, k. Oh the shame, the stigma if one caught nits!
The
very worst thing, it was!
dlowan wrote:msolga wrote:littlek wrote: lice
We called them "nits" when I was in primary school, k. Oh the shame, the stigma if one caught nits!
The
very worst thing, it was!
Worse than ringworm?
Absolutely!
Once I actually
cried because the teacher insisted I sit next to Ronny A, a
known nit carrier!
.... & then got the dreaded kerosene drench & fine tooth comb treatment (OUCH!!!) when I caught the damn things, along with the rest of the school. Nits were serious!
We call the eggs nits, but the adults lice/louse. So, Silvi can't go to school until she is nit-free. After 7 straight hours of laundering, shampooing, combing, etc, my sister found 30 plus nits on her this morning. The whole family is staying home and I am going over to help..... loverly.
There's a stigma here as well, even though thew school niurse is constantly saying that getting lice is like catching a cold. No worse. Right.
Nasty.
I only got a minor gripe right now: I keep tuning in to webradios advertized as punk and getting emo. Christ. Farkin college radio stations.
Life...and everything abt it..
Oh, prince, don't be like that, life is soo sweet...
Shall I come to London and entertain you?
x
...I promise not to give you nits!
littlek wrote:
There's a stigma here as well, even though thew school niurse is constantly saying that getting lice is like catching a cold. No worse. Right.
One good way to alleviate the stigma is to have a massive outbreak (not a suggestion, just an observation). A few years back our elementary school had to cancel it's holiday music program because the lice was so prevalent they were afraid to hold a gathering that would bring more people into a confined space. It was close to winter break, we were all encouraged to wash or discard all winter headgear, combs and brushes while they fumigated the entire school during the break.
The stigma was gone once it became an epidemic.
