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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 65159" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Shari, for heaven's sake don't pull hairs out to check for nits - you have very, very low odds of finding them that way, even in a heavy infestation. </p><p></p><p>What would you call a heavy infestation? A hundred eggs? How many hairs do you have on your head? A hundred thousand, maybe twice that. So if you pluck a hair at random to check and you DO have nits, you still have a 1 in 1000 chance (or worse) of actually finding one that way.</p><p></p><p>Seriously, the method I suggested is the best way to check your own hair - it's how I had to do mine, husband simply hasn't got the eyesight to do it. I washed my own hair in nit treatment then put in conditioner, then sat in the bathtub with the two combs (wide tooth, and fine tooth) and combed my hair through, all the while checking the comb. And yes, the first time I did this I DID have them. I could hardly miss, we had left easy child untreated for months, not recognising the problem. She had given them to me and to difficult child 1. I didn't have many, the first treatment was the only one where I found any lice. I still did it twice more, about a week apart, just to be sure. I've had them once, since (caught them from difficult child 2) but the second time I only had a couple, literally.</p><p></p><p>There is a new kind of fine tooth comb on the market - instead of being flat and plastic, this one has round metal teeth. It's gentler than other metal combs (I hate the others, they rip hair to shreds and upset the kids). The new metal comb is great at getting nits out, as painlessly as possible. But I still prefer the flat plastic one as being easier to use especially for getting scampering animalcules.</p><p></p><p>A bit of trivia from one of my uni lecturers in parasitology - Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary how one of his wigs had come from the wigmakers, with nits. He was disgusted and sent it back - a new wig should not have been jumping, clearly some POOR person had been fooling around and wearing his expensive, custom-made wig.</p><p>And another - Thomas a'Becket was famously murdered on the altar steps in his cathedral, by some over-enthusiastic knights. It wasn't known until then, but the archbishop had been wearing a hair shirt next to his skin, "to mortify the flesh" and keep him humble. And it was loaded - as his body cooled, it was reported that his clothing was seen to be MOVING, as the body lice scrambled desperately from the cooling body in search of a warmer (ie alive) host. This was reported as a sign of the great man's saintliness.</p><p></p><p>So next time your kid brings some livestock home, just remember the saintliness of Thomas a'Becket.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 65159, member: 1991"] Shari, for heaven's sake don't pull hairs out to check for nits - you have very, very low odds of finding them that way, even in a heavy infestation. What would you call a heavy infestation? A hundred eggs? How many hairs do you have on your head? A hundred thousand, maybe twice that. So if you pluck a hair at random to check and you DO have nits, you still have a 1 in 1000 chance (or worse) of actually finding one that way. Seriously, the method I suggested is the best way to check your own hair - it's how I had to do mine, husband simply hasn't got the eyesight to do it. I washed my own hair in nit treatment then put in conditioner, then sat in the bathtub with the two combs (wide tooth, and fine tooth) and combed my hair through, all the while checking the comb. And yes, the first time I did this I DID have them. I could hardly miss, we had left easy child untreated for months, not recognising the problem. She had given them to me and to difficult child 1. I didn't have many, the first treatment was the only one where I found any lice. I still did it twice more, about a week apart, just to be sure. I've had them once, since (caught them from difficult child 2) but the second time I only had a couple, literally. There is a new kind of fine tooth comb on the market - instead of being flat and plastic, this one has round metal teeth. It's gentler than other metal combs (I hate the others, they rip hair to shreds and upset the kids). The new metal comb is great at getting nits out, as painlessly as possible. But I still prefer the flat plastic one as being easier to use especially for getting scampering animalcules. A bit of trivia from one of my uni lecturers in parasitology - Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary how one of his wigs had come from the wigmakers, with nits. He was disgusted and sent it back - a new wig should not have been jumping, clearly some POOR person had been fooling around and wearing his expensive, custom-made wig. And another - Thomas a'Becket was famously murdered on the altar steps in his cathedral, by some over-enthusiastic knights. It wasn't known until then, but the archbishop had been wearing a hair shirt next to his skin, "to mortify the flesh" and keep him humble. And it was loaded - as his body cooled, it was reported that his clothing was seen to be MOVING, as the body lice scrambled desperately from the cooling body in search of a warmer (ie alive) host. This was reported as a sign of the great man's saintliness. So next time your kid brings some livestock home, just remember the saintliness of Thomas a'Becket. Marg [/QUOTE]
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