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Can you imagine what it would be like in their houses???They are not only in beds pillows and whatever,They are also in the car where the kids sit ,When you clean has to be every where some one puts there heads.Winter it was hats in the freezer or put them in the dryer.They seem to think by washing their hair that clears it.;)

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That brings back memories... Nitty Norah, the hair explorer doing entire class checks.

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Yeah, but are US lice different in any way from the UK ones?

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They say "wadder" instead of "water".

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i am sure they are they are probably republican lice:lol:
I think they need a Nitty Norah ,Ours used to be one of the Queens Nurses
I used to love that term.............:thumbup:

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Usually not long after the kids went back to school from the summer holidays a letter would be sent home informing us parents that there was an outbreak of lice in school. I often wondered why the parents didn't check their kids hair before they went back to school and they would have time to treat it before their kids infested others. My kids only got infested once. I went stright down to the chemists and got lice shampoo and a nit comb.

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New to the forums so i am going to try to learn, chat and contribute when I can.

Noticed that someone upthread mentioned the Nitty Gritty comb which I did not bring over here with me but have found the same comb here under the NitFree Terminator label so if there are others looking for their Nitty Gritty or similar products (shampoo etc) you cna buy them at http://www.kleen-free.com.

Have never seen them at a chemists or anywhere like that.

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One of my friends would rinse her girls hair in vinegar !!! swore by it. When they got older they wouldnt let her do it and that was when they got head lice.

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They all have guns.

When we lived in the UK head lice seemed to be endemic and so I just used tea tree shampoos and tea tree oil and generally my children were head lice free.
I also searched their hair several times a week and if I did see one then it was caught and squished.
Our UK school did all sorts of things to encourage parents to be head lice aware but some never bothered and it was usually the same few children that literally had them dropping out of their hair (I'm being serious:eek::eek:)

No-one seems to have them here and I am amazed. It has been wonderful not to have the constant smell of tea tree in the house (nice smell occasionally but not constantly) and not looking down and seeing things crawling across a child's head.

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My children never had head lice being in the military we moved around a lot, ,But they are around, up here when I worked in the schools they were rampant.Educating the parents is the thing.They seem to think that just washing their hair will solve it.:ohmy:

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We've had the same experience as Doris with regards to head lice. My friend in the UK used to call them lodgers :D always made me laugh.

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that's taken me back! i used to love it when she came to check our heads-so ticklish and relaxing! never had any either and can't remember anyone else in the group having them.