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Are you in NJ? My sis elementary school gets is every flipping year. High income, wealthy district, the kids get it every year. I swear its in the school itself.
I raised 4 kids in a Southern state and got *maybe* 2 lice warnings home a year. When a kid has lice, they contact parents to let them look out for it. So far no one has gotten in *knock on wood*
Last year we moved up north before school started. I swear we got 10 or more lice warnings per class. At one point, half the kids were out for lice. These aren't farm kids either. This year has been going on 2 weeks and we have our first lice warning (a kid in class has it).
Is it regional? Is lice more common in the north, even in warm months?
It probably can spread rapidly through a county although I don't know about a whole state.
Um, you do realize that farm kids are no more susceptible to get lice than city kids, right? Not sure why that comment was made.
Growing up, a few kids would get lice. When my kids went to school, there were a few kids each year who got them...the lice never showed any socio-economic preference, infecting across all income levels and living situations.
I'm not sure what the farm comment was all about either...
but just to add to what you said. Lice PREFER clean hair. It's easier for them to grab on to the hair shaft if hair is clean.
If anyone is concerned about your kids getting lice, let your kids use hair gel or hair spray when they go to school. Lice will bypass your kid and jump onto the little kid with the shiny clean hair next to them.
Anybody elses head getting itchy now or is it just me?
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Ditto what the poster above said about clean hair. I only wash my kids hair a few times a week, and use lots of hair products on them. My kids have helmet hair sometimes, but we've been lice free!
I'm not sure what the farm comment was all about either...
but just to add to what you said. Lice PREFER clean hair. It's easier for them to grab on to the hair shaft if hair is clean.
If anyone is concerned about your kids getting lice, let your kids use hair gel or hair spray when they go to school. Lice will bypass your kid and jump onto the little kid with the shiny clean hair next to them.
Anybody elses head getting itchy now or is it just me?
It was just an off handed comment, as I already explained. When I lived on a farm, a lot of the kids who also lived around there got lice a lot. Its just what I was thinking about. But I didn't mean to imply kids who grow up on farms get lice a lot.
I'm not sure what the farm comment was all about either...
but just to add to what you said. Lice PREFER clean hair. It's easier for them to grab on to the hair shaft if hair is clean.
If anyone is concerned about your kids getting lice, let your kids use hair gel or hair spray when they go to school. Lice will bypass your kid and jump onto the little kid with the shiny clean hair next to them.
Anybody elses head getting itchy now or is it just me?
Up until now, I was just reading (not even commenting yet) & now I'M scratching!
I remember a few years ago when the elementary school sent home a warning I was complaining to my husband that just reading the warning made me feel itchy. He rolled his eyes & said "Your just dramatic; or paranoid!"!
I kept talking about it as I started checking the kids heads & noticed that he started scratching HIS head too (& no, nobody had them)!
You need to teach ur kids to not lay on the floor at school specially if its carpet. And teach ur girls not to share hair brushes. I have never gotten lice.
I wish I had flip flops in gym to wear in the showers. I got athletes foot several times over the years.
My mother is a school nurse. She says that usually it can be traced back to one daycare, Church group, carpool, etc...
It sounds like they have a source and they haven't zeroed in on it or haven't been able to make that source clean up.
I used to babysit for a family that got lice a lot. I think they just weren't getting rid of all of it when they treated for it. The mom's housekeeping was pretty random. I found a really old dead mouse in one of her kitchen cupboards once. I can imagine her not being focused enough to treat pillows, couches, hats, etc.
After the second time I got lice from those kids, I helped the mom get everyone lice free and wash all the bedding and everything we could think of...and then I never babysat for them again.
I used to babysit for a family that got lice a lot. I think they just weren't getting rid of all of it when they treated for it. The mom's housekeeping was pretty random. I found a really old dead mouse in one of her kitchen cupboards once. I can imagine her not being focused enough to treat pillows, couches, hats, etc.
After the second time I got lice from those kids, I helped the mom get everyone lice free and wash all the bedding and everything we could think of...and then I never babysat for them again.
I think I would have stopped after finding an old dead mouse in the kitchen cupboard. Yuck!
In the southwestern part of the US here, not sure how common lice is in schools, but I'm thankful that I only had to deal with it once as a parent, back when my daughter was in preschool.
The school's policy was that if your child had lice, you were supposed to let the staff know about the situation. One of the other kids in my daughter's class apparently had lice, for whatever reason, the family didn't say anything, and so my daughter came home with it. (never found out who the "lice spreader" was)
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