National Head Lice Month

[DaveM]

Yes, it's that time of year again, and the American Pediculosis Association (yes, it's a real organization) wants you to know that they're watching out for your hair. So be sure to observe National Head Lice Month....wear someone else's hat for a week, have "Rid Night" at your home, and issue a magnifying glass to each member of your family to be on the alert for little white things that hop. Remember, good hygiene is not only healthy, it can be fun!

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[Mary6906]

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The family that checks together stays together ... and it's so bonding, too!

[Randy & Betty in Pa]

Finally, something happy to celebrate!!!!!

What time does the Head Lice parade start??? I wouldn't want to miss it!

Best

R (I got an itch) in Pa....

[hoops]

i love how head lice month always coincides with going back to school
peace
hoops

[Eva]

That is usually not a coincidence at all Hoops... :eek:

Eva


i love how head lice month always coincides with going back to school
peace
hoops

[DaveM]

I think a parade would be a great idea....what sort of floats would be appropriate? And should the marchers have Big Hair?

[Dee]

Maybe we should all hit our local department stores and try on all the hats!

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[hoops]

and maybe we can get a flea circus together for after the parade.
peace
hoops

[Elliott]

I'm in the mood to check someone for ticks... :o

[Eva]

I had a tick in my navel once :eek: I discovered it while I was in the shower. My then girlfriend and me had been walking her parents' dogs. They lived in an area where fields met woods. You can imagine where I picked the tick up. I wasn't happy. My girlfriend luckily took it out. Sorry Elliot.

Eva

[david uk]

so there are some advantages to being bald :p

[Eva]

so there are some advantages to being bald :p
Absolutely! :D
Although I do treasure my own headrug.

Eva

[aabram]

Isn't it weird that.... when the kids leave school, the incidence of headlice is precisely nil..... :) Enjoy the parade, folks... I will NOT be attending <smug grin>

Annabel :p

[Bat]

My youngest attended a very exclusive private school when starting out...lots of very rich kids (of which he definitely was not one!), but evidently some were very neglected kids, too...a lice outbreak was traced to the child of a prominent psychiatrist in SF. I wouldn't ever have seen them on James, except a little hippie friend of Older Son Tony spotted them and squealed, "Ooooh, James has LICE!! UGH!!", whereupon we started an instant cleanup of child, bedding, treatment of whole family with anti-louse shampoo...you know the drill. And last, but not least, notified the school, who sent out the obligatory letter to parents. It must have worked, because that outbreak was quelled quickly, and there no further occurrences, thank heavens. It was just slightly traumatic. Almost as bad as pinworms, which my outdoor-loving, dirt-playing son came up with on a yearly basis before he was five, prompting familial purges with vermicidal tonic, until Tony could realize the importance of washing his hands...it definitely made him a clean child on his own.
Ah, the joys of raising children. It's a wonder they (and we) ever lived. :p
Ah

[Elliott]

Love that story Bat.... Same thing happened to my sister. Her kid went to Chadwick Country Day School a million years ago. He came home one day and told my sister, "I got busted for bugs." It seems every blonde kid at the school had them. My brother-in-law, God love him, is a GERMAPHOBE. Their whole house, and all family members, got the treatment.... If I remember correctly, he shaved his whole body.... It was great! :D I can spot a bug from accross the room; I've been lucky so far. Lice don't care how much money one has... I'm going to shower now!

[hoops]

when we were kids, mom took the preventative approach, just before the first day of school we all got short hair cuts and full treatment with lice ridding medication...we did the medication, which is applied to the head, daily, for a week or until all lice reports where over.
peace
hoops