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From: EllBee on 6 Apr 2007 00:46 I recall a thread a while back about this. I certainly never expected to be in this position, but...my 14 year-old SD has head lice. She's had them for at least 2 months, maybe three, and has been being treated for 4-5 weeks. The lice persist. She's been treated twice - the first for sure with Nix, the second time we assumed was Nix but are not sure at this point. I'm looking for any suggestions/advice from the NCP position. I guess you can offer what the CP should be doing, but we have zero ability to even suggest. We have SD every other weekend, but Easter is an extra, so we have her this weekend and will have her next weekend also. Any advice would be appreciated. Lee
From: Vicki Robinson on 6 Apr 2007 08:28 In a previous article, EllBee <leronisnospam(a)att.net> said: >I'm looking for any suggestions/advice from the NCP position. I guess >you can offer what the CP should be doing, but we have zero ability to >even suggest. We have SD every other weekend, but Easter is an extra, so >we have her this weekend and will have her next weekend also. They'll stick around if the house isn't being properly treated for them. They will be in her bed, on the furniture, everyplace, and it all needs to be treated. If she's being repeatedly treated with those louse shampoos, keep an eye on her health. Some of them are organophosphates; they work, but they're very toxic and shouldn't be used more than a couple times within a short period of time. I don't know what to tell you; it's out of your control, unless you can get the CP to let her stay at your house while they get their home under control. Vicki -- "I'm just a bad Christian. A bad born-again Christian. And certainly, like the apostle Peter, I am capable of denying it, of presenting myself as a sort of leftist liberation-theology enthusiast and maybe sort of a vaguely Jesusy bon vivant. But it's not true" --Anne Lamott
From: S.D. on 6 Apr 2007 14:35 On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:46:46 GMT, EllBee wrote: > Any advice would be appreciated. Interesting topic... :) never experienced such in all my years. But, can equate "bed bugs" in my childhood. <grr> There's two ways in which she's become infected; your home, her bedroom is infested or another house she frequents and or she's using another's head care products. Until that's determined, at best, it's going to be a struggle to rid her of them. -- SD:)
From: rebecca on 6 Apr 2007 15:34 "EllBee" <leronisnospam(a)att.net> wrote in message news:WgkRh.252413$5j1.230259(a)bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > > I'm looking for any suggestions/advice from the NCP position. I guess you > can offer what the CP should be doing, but we have zero ability to even > suggest. We have SD every other weekend, but Easter is an extra, so we > have her this weekend and will have her next weekend also. > I'm going to go with a 14 year old doesn't really like having them. So I would probably, in your situation, go with educating her about them and how to get rid of them. In this instance, pressure from SD on her mother will probably do what pressure from you will not. I'd also have your husband talk to her pediatrician about it. So she's been out of school for 4-5 weeks? Gadzooks, that's really bad. Or just sent home with a recurrence? rebecca
From: ZMOMMY4ALL on 7 Apr 2007 22:38
On Apr 5, 11:46 pm, EllBee <leronisnos...(a)att.net> wrote: > I recall a thread a while back about this. I certainly never expected to > be in this position, but...my 14 year-old SD has head lice. She's had > them for at least 2 months, maybe three, and has been being treated for > 4-5 weeks. The lice persist. She's been treated twice - the first for > sure with Nix, the second time we assumed was Nix but are not sure at > this point. > > I'm looking for any suggestions/advice from the NCP position. I guess > you can offer what the CP should be doing, but we have zero ability to > even suggest. We have SD every other weekend, but Easter is an extra, so > we have her this weekend and will have her next weekend also. > > Any advice would be appreciated. > Lee I actually went through a very similar situation years ago. My stepdaughter was 4 at the time. For months she came over with lice and every time we spent money on lice treatments and tried to cure it. It eventually got so bad that as soon as her and her brother would get to our house we stripped them of their coats and all clothes and had them bathe and washed their clothes in hot water and put them into plastic sealed bags after they were dry (the clothes!-not the kids) We shaved the boys head, but for the girl we spent hours each time combing all nits and lice out of her head. She was infested each time very badly! Finally it got to the point where the stepdaughter started losing patches of hair. So, we talked to the mom and told her that we were keeping the kids for 2 weeks and during that time she needed to completely rid her house of those lice! (we suggested throwing out all stuffed animals, washing all clothing and bedding in hot water, buying the lice spray for beds and furniture, steam cleaning all carpets, etc.) At first their mom freaked out and denyed the lice problem, but when we threatened to call DCFS she gave in. She did get rid of the lice, and my stepdaughters hair grew back. |