So of course having little girls, you get the good aswell as the bad.
The bad being the dreaded - HEAD LICE.
It only takes one poorly maintained head of a child in a school (and we're all acutely aware of this poor child whose mother seems completely oblivious, or just doesnt care that her child is utterly riddled with them, as helpfully pointed out by her child's classmates.. and has done nothing to treat it).
Letters have been sent home to all parents over the outbreak which is the worst ive seen it since my eldest started there in 2008.
Anyway, our first encounter of nits, head lice, whichever one you call it.. was a few months ago. I have always been extremely squeamish about these infestation bugs and always stated that should any of mine get it, they would be shipped to my mother immediately and go into quarantine until they had all disappeared.
Of course that didnt happen.
Instead once id taken a deep breath and confronted my fear, bought the relevant stuff and treated her, i was feeling a bit braver about it all.
One swift treatment and she was cured! I was a happy mum and we continued about our lives.
This was until last week when i noticed my youngest who has the longest, most tangly hair you can imagine, scratching her head. Uh Oh.
Yep, she was the next to fall victim to the dreaded critters. Except this was no easy task to tackle this time round.
Sophie being the most awkward yet loveable child there is, absolutely hates anyone to touch her hair. So you can imagine the battle i had with a nit comb and all that lovely long hair of hers. *sigh*
Still, we treated it with a well known brand of head lice treament, that had worked on my oldest, and were regularly combing through her hair every day or two but she was still scratching, and there was nothing coming out on the comb.
Today was day 7 since her last treatment and doing as i was told, i bought more solution to re-treat after the 7 day period. This time though i bought Full Marks Solution.
The above solution is the one we bought and i cannot recommend it enough.
15 minutes after putting it on her head (i always like to give it an extra few mins to work) i started to run the comb through Sophie's hair and was shocked, and disgusted at just how many lice and eggs i was pulling out of her hair.
I hadnt seen anything like it before, and they had all been safely hidden since last week when i did the first treatment!
Clearly the other one hadn't worked and they'd had an extra 7 days in which to breed and grow. And boy did they.
I lost count in the end, i just couldnt believe that the nit comb hadnt picked this up during all the times i stood there under a bright light, combing through her hair before each bedtime.
It took this solution to finally out the plague that is head lice.
Not only is this treatment expensive but it is incredibly repetitive, never ending and very frustrating when you have girls with lots of long, tangly hair, who wont stand still, and will howl, cry, scream, beg, plead and behave as though you are murdering her just to run a comb through her hair....
So i will continue on my quest to rid my girls completely, until the next time they catch it from said poor child at school, or someone else she has infected with her nest head.
My complaint will be going into the school first thing in the morning.
