swellmomma Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 LICE!!! my delightful 4 yr old who still cosleeps gave me lice. I found it on both of us during daycare girl's nap today. After work today I got the shampoo for me and dd (I have head checked everyone else and none have it), clippers to buzz the boys and an extra nit comb to double check dd12's though she has been away from home for the last week. Tonight I am sanitizing my room like crazy (I threw away my pillows and bought new ones and zipper covers for them, as well as a zippered vinyl cover for teh mattress. Tomorrow I am going nuts on the kids rooms in between nit picking me and dd. Thank goodness the bigs don't have it because they have first aid tomorrow and sunday. Ds13 will be buzzed, dd12 once I have confirmed she has none (aunty and uncle both checked but I want to be sure with my own eyes), she will be tightly braided with tea tree oil in it. We have never dealt with it because I have always gone through all the precautions to prevent it through fall and winter. I can name exactly which kids dd played with in the last few weeks and it had to come from one of them because daycare girl had none and otherwise dd4 is not with anyone else. Ick ick ick. SO much for prepping the garden and painting the front door this weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkacademy Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I am so very sorry. I have been in your place and felt your pain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nova147 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I highly recommend oil instead of (or in addition to) lice shampoo. The lice are becoming immune to the chemical treatments. Oil smothers them. I usually use baby oil, but I know of others who've used cooking oil. I just coat the hair, focusing on the roots, and leave it overnight. Comb out bugs/nits and shower in the AM. Repeat that night. Then repeat a week later to get any bugs from nits I missed. I hate lice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 pick pick pick. This sucks lol Last night I finished dd's hair at midnight, mine at 3am. Buzzed the 2 boys before all that. DD12 has none. 2 big kids are gone today at first aid. SPent a couple hours this morning combing and picking dd's hair. Last night after my treatment I found 5 still alive and maybe a dozen nits. Today I only found 1 alive on me and 5 nits thus far. DD on the other hand last night was a nasty mess. today even after all that yesterday I found 6 or so live lice as well as dozens of nits still. Her hair is not tightly up, with tea tree oil in it and a shower cap on so no more get on me. Mine is about to get tea tree and twisted up. Fun times. Then onto cleaning. I will have 2 hours to completely sanitize my room, rewash all the bedding etc before I leave to get the bigs. Like I didn't have a crowded enough schedule daily without adding picking nits for hours. dd12 has asked if I would just buzz her like the boyos so she doesn't catch any. She has camp counsellor training next week and she is very worried she will get them. She says she would rather be bald than miss it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex-mex Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 If you have stuffed toys -- place them in a garbage bag for 5-7 days so that whatever nits are on them ready to hatch can die without escaping. What about carpets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 (edited) If you have stuffed toys -- place them in a garbage bag for 5-7 days so that whatever nits are on them ready to hatch can die without escaping. What about carpets? shhh! don't tell my kids that. If nothing else positive comes out of this, I have told the kids I can only salvage 3 stuffies each (dd12 has a collection of 53 webkinz, each of the kids has a large collection of them though not at many. Over all I would say we have about 125 stuffies in this house) I am using this as an excuse to cull them all as well all the dolls that are not fully plastic, and dress up clothes are going to the trash. Puppets will get washed and frozen. the kids rooms and livingroom are carpetting. I clean the carpets every other day with vinegar and water in my carpet cleaner because both dogs are still housebreaking. I vacuum daily and will be vacuuming the sofa and then covering with a sheet. Hopefully all that will prevent any spread of it. daycare girl's mom knows it is in our house, daycare boy never showed up friday so I have not talked to them yet. But both will be checked as soon as they leave and again before they go home to be sure nothing starts there. Hopefully everything will stop it here and that will be that. Edited June 23, 2012 by swellmomma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dina in Oklahoma Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 No fun!!! :ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthwestMom Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 My condolences. I had them as a teacher and it was a big PITA, and that was before I had my own children to deal with. :grouphug: , except no one touches heads, ok? lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.Dup. Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I'm sorry. We just dealt with this for the first time, also. DD and I had it BAD. I thought my head just itched because we moved from well water to city water. :ack2::ack2: I did not use any kind of treatments. I heard that lice survive suffocation because they turn off their breathing apparatus, and it was just too much trouble to try to oil up our heads and keep them that way for hours and hours. So I just combed out our heads at least 5x/day. That was probably excessive, but I was just so grossed out. It was gone within a week. I did bag up my comforter and vacuum and wash bedsheets, but I didn't worry about the couch or treating any of the furniture or anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 I'm sorry. We just dealt with this for the first time, also. DD and I had it BAD. I thought my head just itched because we moved from well water to city water. :ack2::ack2: I did not use any kind of treatments. I heard that lice survive suffocation because they turn off their breathing apparatus, and it was just too much trouble to try to oil up our heads and keep them that way for hours and hours. So I just combed out our heads at least 5x/day. That was probably excessive, but I was just so grossed out. It was gone within a week. I did bag up my comforter and vacuum and wash bedsheets, but I didn't worry about the couch or treating any of the furniture or anything. If it was just us I would likely not be as crazy in the cleaning department right now. But I run a home daycare. I can't have lice moving from kid to kid in a constant cycle. Have to go over board up front and hopefully stop it all here and now while it is just me and dd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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