NewWorldOrder
July 18th, 2008, 10:27 AM
My 8 year old daughter has headlice!!!!!! :panic I also keep another little girl, and her mother found the nits in her hair this morning. :doh
I was up till 2 a.m. washing, and vacuuming, and mopping, and bagging up toys. I'm a little tired.
I went ahead and bought the RID lice treatment, but decided to use olive oil instead, and it worked great. I soaked her hair in it, let it sit for about 30 minutes, then I started running that metal comb through her hair. We sat for about 2 or 3 hours combing out dead lice and eggs. All of the lice that I combed out were dead except for 3. I'm going to do it again tomorrow.
My daughter has dark hair, and the eggs were black and very small, and the lice were really small and also dark, so that's why I didn't catch it. The other little girl also has dark hair, but because she had the white nits it was easier to see. I don't know why she had the white nits, and my daughter had the dark eggs. I can't figure out for the life of me, where they got them. I've thought maybe from a little girl down the street, or from the place where they took their swimming lessons last week, or from somewhere else, I just don't know. I feel so bad that the little I'm keeping got them, but since she's here with me all the time it makes sense that they both got them.
I was up till 2 a.m. washing, and vacuuming, and mopping, and bagging up toys. I'm a little tired.
I went ahead and bought the RID lice treatment, but decided to use olive oil instead, and it worked great. I soaked her hair in it, let it sit for about 30 minutes, then I started running that metal comb through her hair. We sat for about 2 or 3 hours combing out dead lice and eggs. All of the lice that I combed out were dead except for 3. I'm going to do it again tomorrow.
My daughter has dark hair, and the eggs were black and very small, and the lice were really small and also dark, so that's why I didn't catch it. The other little girl also has dark hair, but because she had the white nits it was easier to see. I don't know why she had the white nits, and my daughter had the dark eggs. I can't figure out for the life of me, where they got them. I've thought maybe from a little girl down the street, or from the place where they took their swimming lessons last week, or from somewhere else, I just don't know. I feel so bad that the little I'm keeping got them, but since she's here with me all the time it makes sense that they both got them.