I wasn’t going to write about this. Honestly, I would have preferred to keep this one a big fat secret. But I suck at keeping secrets, so I’m just going to say it now, and get it over with.
The Dreaded L Word.
Getting rid of lice is a huge job, insanely huge! And that job was thrust upon me in the blink of an eye.
So on Wednesday past I spent the entire day nit picking, washing, drying, and scrubbing my house from top to bottom. I have not stopped! I am cleaning the bed clothes every day!
The pillows, blankets, sheets and stuffers are all taking daily tumbles in the dryer. Morning and night going through everyone’s hair, in hopes of finding nothing… because if you find just one, you pretty much have to start over. I have about 15 bags of stuff in quarantine as well.
But, since I always try to look at the bright side. My house is sparkling clean and ready for the holidays!
That’s what I had to tackle this week – what about you?
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Ewwwww. How awful. I never had to deal with that problem when my boys were growing up — I hope you’ve conquered those pesky pests.
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I had it in my daycare, which is in my home, 3 times in one year. You want to talk about upset. I almost quit.
Ugh, lice. How many times did I see complaints of that in the ER? Mothers upset because her kids aren’t “dirty” and their family members “shower everyday.”
I wish the assumption that the mother is a bad house cleaner would just go away. Lice are opportunists and can be found in the cleanest environments.
But back to your house, I’m so sorry you had to go through a frustrating process, but it sounds like your house probably looks fantastic.
Any new cleaning tips you came by during this process?
Once you get rid of them use tree tea shampoo for preventive measures. My kids have use it since they started school and we have never had them.(knock on wood)
Oh YUCK! We had lice earlier this year. *gag* Not a happy camper was I. I still have nightmares from when I was a kid, so having my daughter with it really freaked me out.
After spending WAY too much on chemical versions of getting rid of it, we found LiceFreee. It has 3 different forms: shampoo/conditioner in one (preventative & treatment), a spray, and the gel stuff like RID. It’s homeopathic, and really does work. Has Tea Tree Oil in it, which is really good for keeping them away.
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Ha! Good timing! I literally *just* posted about head lice a few days ago on Yummy Mummy Club: http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/blogs/dr-kim-foster-wicked-health/20121107/how-to-treat-head-lice
It’s treating head lice 101 (everything a mom needs to know).
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I’ve had to deal with lice on my kids a couple times in the past. Once was when my daughter was 2 and just went in for hernia surgery. The nurse came out saying they couldn’t go ahead with the surgery because they found nits in her hair. Embarrassing! Anyone, dirty or clean, can get lice but I feel for ya. I’ve bawled my eyes out when it happened to us.