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From: MaryW
Date: 03-12-2004, 07:16 AM (1 of 14)
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Man oh man, am I glad it's Friday!!! I have had one of those weeks that just wouldn't quit. If I wrote everything down that happened I could write a book. Anyway, I think we are going to have an easy supper and chill out for the weekend. What about your week? How was it? MaryW
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 03-12-2004, 10:02 AM (2 of 14)
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Actually my week wasn't bad...kinda boring for a change.. Spring is here and it's nice outside..(sorry all you people in cold climates w/snow) It's been in the high 60's, low 70's, so it's been get the lawn ready time.... Chrys
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From: MaryW
Date: 03-12-2004, 11:24 AM (3 of 14)
I would happily get my lawn ready, but I would have to dig down about 3'. 
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From: Pudge99
Date: 03-12-2004, 03:29 PM (4 of 14)
My week could probably compare with yours Mary. The biggest thing is my daughter who just had her tonsils out last week picked up headlice somewhere . My dad is coming to visit next week so I needed this week to clean my house. I did not plan to have to go through my daughters hair with a fine tooth comb. We were planning on driving my dad over to my brother's house, but now I would feel awful if I didn't get all those pesky bugs and we left them at his house. Then to top it all off I found one crawling on my 15 month olds head this morning . I think I am just going to shave everyone bald . But seriously I am going to shave the boys bald (this is my 6 yr olds prefered haircut anyway) and go through the girls hair with the comb tonight and then again on Sunday before Grandpa gets here. Oh and I can't forget that I have several things to sew that I promised daughter #2 for her birthday which is Tuesday  . If I disappear from the boards it is because I had a nervous breakdown. I'll be back after therapy .
Gina
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From: Pudge99
Date: 03-12-2004, 03:32 PM (5 of 14)
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On top of everthing else the lawn has started to grow, and our tree that drops leaves in the spring decided to start this week too. Mary, if you really want some lawn work to do I have plenty and no time to do it.
Gina
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From: MarysRose
Date: 03-12-2004, 07:30 PM (6 of 14)
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Oh Pudge! Headlice! Yuk! The times I've had to deal with that! ugh. I'll tell you a good remedy; Mayonaise! Can you imagine? Mayonaise lathered up and then cover the head with plastic (not the face though lol) Leave on for several hours...kills those lice dead. As with most remedies though, you have to retreat sometimes if you do not get all the nits. My week has been pretty simple. Though I have had to help my daughter teach her daughter. She homeschools. Wow, I'd forgotten alot! lol. Also DGD begged to learn to sew; and since I see others teaching their younger ones I decided to let her try a baby blanket. But she has to do it by hand. As my Grandma use to say, if you cannot do it by hand, what will you do when the electricty goes out? My son-in-law is out of town almost every week; so my daughter and her 4 children come to "visit" everyday. Grief I could not get her to talk to me when she was in High School; now she will not leave me alone. LOL (just kidding) I love every minute of it. My DH has a horrid sty on his right eye; he's been to the Dr. but I have to put gook in his eye and it is gross! I'm trying to decide if I want to take a job offered to me. When will I sew if I do that? But all in all it has been a good week. I am glad for the weekend though! Hope everyone else has had a good week! Laura
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From: DorothyL
Date: 03-12-2004, 11:07 PM (7 of 14)
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When my kids were little there would be an outbreak of lice in the summer recreation program every year. Now I don't know if it is true or not but someone told me hair spray keeps them from getting lice so I would spray mine down every morning. Like I said, I don't know if it was the hairspray but neither of my girls ever had lice. I had a rough week too and expect another one next week -- and the one after that. Just a lot of work. Dorothy |
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 03-12-2004, 11:44 PM (8 of 14)
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Mary Rose, I heard Mayonaise or baby oil will help remove the nits but it will not kill them. Once you get them gone shampoo with tea tree oil (T-Gel) or Lavender scent will help keep them away. It worked for my daughter. her elementary school was know for having the most head lice(really they are just more dillegent in checking each child who is itching & their siblings). She had it only once & I volenteer in the school & I have never gotten it. When cleaning don't forget the stuffed animal & pillows. If they can't be washed put them in a garbage bag for at least 2 weeks outside or in the freezer. Our principal saved a live louse in a bag to see how long it would live whithout human contact. It was alive for a whole week. Be careful about treating the 15 MO their skin can be very sensitive to the shampoos. The haispray works because it makes the hair harder to adhere to. The lice will go to the cleanest finest hair because it is easist to glue the eggs to. Good luck! I don't envy you. Barb
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 03-13-2004, 12:43 AM (9 of 14)
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My baby son was the first to come home with lice. From Sept to Jan I was at the drug store getting lice shampoo. He played with some kids down the street from us that were not from here and we didn't know too much about the parents. When he came home with them I went to the mother of these children and told her to check her kids for lice. Joey had them. "Oh, no my kids dont have any. I checked them. Well the lady had only one eye and I wondered if she could see them because my Joey kept getting them and getting them. My husband began to believe I had something going with the man at the pharmacy I was in there so much. LOL Not really but any way, I finally figured as many times as Joey had them these kids surely had to have gotten them too. So then I thought, yeah they are the ones who are giving them to him............... They were. I called the school board and they sent a nurse out there after I told them how long I'd been treating him and he kept getting them. The kids were lined up in the hall checking out from both of those kids classes. Everybody in their class was infested with them. Joey was clean I made him stop playing with them by then. They shaved those kids heads and the aunt was in there shampooing their house and cleaning beds. After that I had no more problems. I found out later the Mother of these kids lived in the bars around here and the grandmother took care of the kids and not very good. They were what we call down south, Trash. The grands get them every now and then but they spray their hair with hair spray and the girls pull up their hair and that helps. I've heard of mayo being put in the hair but I thought vinegar was suppose to soften the nits so they would be easy to remove with the little comb. |
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From: sewingrandma
Date: 03-13-2004, 09:25 AM (10 of 14)
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Lemon juice and vinegar also work to get the nits to let loose of the hair shaft. Also lemon scented shampoo helps prevent an infestation. They don't like the smell of it. I work in a jail and we buy the lice shampoo by the gallons. We don't treat until we see, and boy do we see a lot of them. They get isolated for 24 hours after treatment if we see no nits they get released back to Gen Pop. We had one woman who would cut her hair, it was down to her butt, and wouldn't comb her hair with the nit comb and she stayed in isolation for almost a month before she got rid of them. She had to use the shampoo every 7 days. She acted like it was no big deal, said she'd had them all her life. Yuck! Brockie
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From: Sherri
Date: 03-13-2004, 10:05 AM (11 of 14)
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Well I have had a week from H-E - Double Hockey sticks as well. But it is my own darn fault. I volunteered to help with my childrens skating carnival. Enough said. But thankfully the carnival is today and tommorrow so all should be well. On the lice. I use vinegar in my kids hear and guess what no lice. Sher My website
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From: Pudge99
Date: 03-13-2004, 11:10 AM (12 of 14)
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Well, I did a comb through on 3 yr old and 15 month old. Nothing came out on the comb. Didn't see anything in their hair either. 6 yr old is going today to get it all buzzed off (we do this every month or so anyway and he is getting shaggy). Does anyone know if I can retreat before seven days or does that have something to do with the life cycle of the lice. I have done one treatment and two comb outs with my daughter. I am gonna comb through again today after she showers. As for the clean hair thing. That would be her. She showers everyday and doesn't use any hair products. Her hair looks greasy if we put anything in it. I'll have to experiment with different stuff. Thanks for all your advice. I am so glad I happend onto this site a few years ago. My life would not be the same without you ladies. Gina
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From: sewingrandma
Date: 03-14-2004, 02:03 PM (13 of 14)
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Gina, only use as directed. It is based on the life cycle of the lice and it is also a very potent insecticide. Most of the shampoos have the same ingredients as flea shampoos for dogs. It is possible to have toxic results if not carefully used. Between use of the medicated shampoos try some of the home remedies, lemon juice, vinegar, etc. They can't hurt and they help loosen the "glue" that the louse uses to lay its' eggs on the hair shaft.
Brockie
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 03-14-2004, 10:33 PM (14 of 14)
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I got so fed up one time when my youngest son had them I put kerosine in his hair. It worked poor thing, I was very careful not to get it on his face. I combed it through his hair and they all came out. Then I washed his hair and put the vinegar in his hair and combed out the nits. It was Christmas Day and nothing was open back then I had to do something he was not sleeping with them in his hair. The kids that were giving them to him came over after being banded from playing with him to give him a present for Christmas and when they left he had them again. OH boy talk about cussing. I nearly lost my way into heaven that day for good. LOL The doctor sent me some prescription shampoo for lice that was suppose to keep them out of the hair but I found out from the druggist that it can cause brain damage so I didn't use it. That was after I used the kerosene. I'd never use that again now that I'm older and wiser. LOL |
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