Also when R got lice we went straight to a lice salon. It was worth the money to get a thorough combing and guidance for followup care.

I doubt there's one near us but I'll check.

Seconding this! Also, I’m usually a pretty granola person but: skip the natural treatments and go straight for the pyrethrin shampoo.

Shampoo helps but the real key is daily combing to get all the nits off. They really need to be removed mechanically.

Oh, 100%, but I have learned to go all out immediately lol.

This. It sucks so, so bad, but it’s the only way. That comb saved my sanity. There were about two years of elementary where I had to do S2’s hair in gelled back ponytail braids every day because it was so rampant at school from kids coming in untreated.

The nurse said there weren't reports of other cases and I said, well, he must have gotten it at school so someone else must have it and they just haven't identified it yet! We're going to treat him twice and I guess keep on with rosemary and tea tree oil in his conditioner to help prevent it.

That’s really all you can do! There’s so much stigma that most people won’t self-report. Went through another resurgence in middle school for that very reason (the parents didn’t even usually know at that point.)

The nurse said she thinks we caught it "early" because there were only a few eggs. But how many kids' families won't bother checking or treating? That's what concerns me: that we'll go through this hassle and he'll get it again because his classmates aren't treated.

Valid concern! I just got in the habit of checking weekly. There were a few kids that just had it constantly, and we just had to work around it.

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I remember pulling them off my sister's hair with my fingernails.

Yes we already got it, will be using it after school today.