Head Lice

[quote] I didn't realize men could get head lice until it happened to me.

Really?

I've even heard of head lice in movie theater "stadium seating."

I recently came to the conclusion I had them, after noticing intermittent itching on my scalp, as well as picking off small white things. So I got RID shampoo at Walmart, and so far have used it twice, since it says on the box they can return from eggs in 7-10 days.

Such fun.

It happened because you're dirty. My first grade teacher Mrs Clayton always would take the lousy children and make them stand up in front of the class and tell us we should avoid them because they were dirty children. Then she'd send them home.

The school nurse would then come in and pronounce them clean and then say we could stop shunning them.

Don't blame others for your unkempt habits.

You thought the lice were misogynists?

I got head lice over 20 years ago while staying in cheap inns in Bahia, Brazil. Lice is ubiquitous in South America. I saw a doctor who gave me a prescription for DDT to apply to my scalp. I decided no to DDT, saved the script to show friends, and bought some over the counter lice treatment.

You’re not really a full time gay unless you’ve had the crabs. So yes OP. The majority of us have all had the lice.

r3 How must it feel to be so clueless, I wonder?

shave your HEAD!!

If you have hair, you can get lice. If you can stomach the smell, vinegar is supposed to be pretty effective.

White vinegar dissolves the glue that keep the eggs attached to the scalp causing an outbreak.

SHAVE IT

Our daughter has had lice any number of times (she's in elementary school is an upscale Bay Area neighborhood). Evidently, lice like clean long hair. It's kinda gross - but after a few times, you just deal with it and try to get rid of them as quickly as you can.

Was Mary OP engaging in skull-fucking at the Tubs?

Elementary teacher checking in.

As stated above, if you have hair, you can get lice.

It isn’t about hygiene; it’s about exposure. Kids get it a lot because they are in very close contact - as are their hats and coats.

Delousing is a pain. Some people have a harder time than others getting rid of the lice and their eggs.

The linked article recommends keeping kids home from school, which most OTHER families prefer, but when it’s your kid and you have to take off work, the perspective changes quickly. My district actually requests that kids not miss school. We send notifications home to let families know to be on the lookout.

I had one refugee child who got lice and her mother shaved her head and sent her to school in a really wiggy wig - in third grade. But you can see how she’d jump to that solution if she learned how to handle the problem without many resources.

So feel no shame, OP.

And good luck nitpicking.

Here you go OP.

They send kids to school with lice!? Our school system has a no nits policy; thought that was standard procedure everywhere.

Love too see how you’d enforce a no nits policy.

my daughter got it a few years ago and i tried everything to get rid of it. none of the otc stuff worked. i finally had to order some shampoo i saw online. it was the only thing that worked. good luck

The big lice are gone, but now I'm dealing with the nits I guess, little freckles of bugs that pop when you crush them.

OP, pick up some Neon Nits. It will help you spot another outbreak, God forbid.

R14 I'd like your opinion, when I was a kid, my sisters got lice in our school during a lice outbreak. Lots of kids got them during that outbreak. My mom immediately treated them, and sent them back to school, no problems, but the school called cps on my mom, claiming that she didn't try hard enough to treat the lice. This was complete bullshit and harrassment. We moved to another state shortly after that, but I saw my mother harrassed needlessly like that quite a lot until the move. It's been two decades, but I'd like to see my mom sue. Is that possible?

I think your question, r21, should be directed to an attorney, but no, I don’t think you’d see any compensation. If it’s any consolation, most principals today would never have allowed a referral to CPS for lice. That is something that should be addressed by the school nurse, but good luck with that, since most nurses, at least in my district, are split up to service multiple schools. We see ours once a week.

Yet another good reason to cut your own hair with a Flowbee.

Head lice. What the fuck?! I thought only poor socio-economic children got the critters.

Kerosene, OP. Kerosene.

And a match!

How lucky you are, OP. You're never all alone in the world when you have lice.

Mayonaisse will suffocate them then a nit comb will get the eggs out.

Shave it OFF, mate

R17, if you're sent home with lice, before you are allowed back in school, the nurse checks for nits. There was a kid last year who was home for a month; the mother did a piss poor job of treating and they kept regenerating. No nits whatsoever policy.

We wanted to infest OP's pubes but his head provided a more pleasant living environment.

They used to make an especially fine-toothed comb for getting out the nits. I don't know if that's still part of the regimen. This whole thread is making my head itchy, even though I've never had head lice.

Men can also get breast cancer, OP.

And genital yeast infections.

Better be careful, it's a jungle out there !

Not the worst thing that can happen.

At my Nephews school they had an outbreak of Scabies. Now that's horrible and difficult to treat.

Lice are job creators!