head lice

I checke my own kids and sure enough each one managed to pick these critters up at some time during their schooling.

that is so grose if you have head lice!!

Hi Wendie, I am in total agreement with you on this. Luckily I have only ever ha the problem once with my son and immediately kept him off cleared and also myself before sending him back for a parent at the school later that day to actually grab a live live our of her daughters hair and laugh about it saying that she can't seem to get rid of them, great, she did on my sons head grrr. When I was a child we used to have a nurse called like you say nitty Nora and if a child head was inspected and eggs or lice found they were sent home with a letter to the parents to deal with and not to return until clear. These days it is abuse to touch a child in anyway, the one that got my goat recently was when the teacher was not allowed to put a plaster on a child as they would be touching them. Come on, if a child has fallen over especially little ones they want a hug too but not allowed. The sad thing is the ones we should be wary of touching the children aren't the ones in responsible jobns that have been CRB checked they are the kind uncle etc etc. You got me itching now lol - now wheres the tea tree. Huggles Ellie :D

It does seem unfair for your kids to get lice from other kids knowing that you do your best effort to make sure that your child's hair is clean. If I were you I'd be pissed off too. It's sad to admit, but many mothers just couldn't be bothered with keeping their child's hair clean.

We used to be actually called nitty nora if we had nits in school, my mother used to check my hair all the time. I remember my friend used to have nits all the time, and my mother used to get so fed up as whenever I went to her house I would come home with nits, I always would try to keep my head away from hers but somehow would always end up with them. I always remember me and my sister having our hair washed with some horrible smelling special shampoo that you had to leave in for about 30 mins, I hated it. I dont know if you watch embarrasing bodies but they had a special one for kids, and it showed a girl who was full of them and her mother said she couldnt get rid of them. The doctor said she probably wasnt doing the full treatment. In the end she went to a specialist and they used this thing on her head, it was like a hoover for your hair, they sucked up as many with those, then went through with the nit comb, then washed her hair in the nit shampoo, and finally got a magnifying glass and pulled the last few out with a pair of tweezers. Are they still allowed to send out letters, I know they dont check hair anymore but when I was in school a letter would be sent out if one child had nits to ask all parents to check their kids, at least then the parents who dont check regular cant say that they wasnt warned that their kids might have it.