Last Tuesday my head started itching so I had the school nurse (I'm a teacher) check my head. She said there was no lice and it was just dry skin. In our school we constantly have kids who have lice but I've never had it.
The whole vacation week/weekend my head is getting itchier and itchier. All the while I visit family, cuddle with baby and husband. I treat it with head and shoulders and massage oil in my scalp. Today it was getting much worse so I go back to school nurse and she checks my head again. With a kind of dismissive laugh she says there is nothing in your hair, it's just dry.
Fast forward to tonight, I'm massaging more oil and washing it out and what do I have...lice (I won't get into details). Unfreaking believable. I am so pissed because now I spent all this time possibly infecting my family and I have to take a day off from work. If the nurse had been competent it could have saved me a lot of trouble. I wonder how many kids are walking around in our school misdiagnosed by her.
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Ugh, I am so sorry. I had lice when I was a kid and I still remember how awful it was. And I wasn't even the one who then had to worry about furntiture, sheets, towels, hairbrushes, etc. My mom did all the work.
Hope you can get rid of them quickly and your DH and DC are spared. I'd be so frustrated with that nurse too.
ETA: Whoa, I just read more carefully and realized you said you went back to the same nurse a second time. Forget frustrated. I would be so angry.
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That's what I was thinking the whole time I was reading your post. *shudders* I would consider telling someone (I don't know who would be appropriate to tell?) that you went to see her twice and she missed it. Not to be a biitch about it, but because I doubt parents want the nurse missing lice in kids and having it spread. Ick. If I was a parent and I found out that the nurse missed lice in my child or someone else's I would be pretty upset.
Ugh. My sister always befriended the kid in the class with lice, and when she got them, we all had to be de-loused whether we had them or not.
To this day, every time I have an itchy scalp, I freak out.
Uh Oh!!! DHs family came to visit for the holidays a few years ago and brought lice with them...TOTAL DISASTER!!! They had to wash everything at his grandparents house..it took a week to get rid of them. Its funny now though Stooopid nurse!
It's so gross and pretty embarrassing. I really don't know how she possibly could have missed it today considering I brushed my hair and saw them. Sorry pretty gross.
DH ran out and bought the stuff to get rid of them which I hate to use because it's all pretty harsh chemicals. I actually had an appt. with the "lice faries" for them to check because I had a feeling the nurse wasn't correct. The lice faries use all natural stuff...oh well too late for that. There was no way I was sleeping tonight without doing a treatment!
I wrote a nice email to my principal letting her know that I won't be in tomorrow. I also said that I visited the nurse two times and she didn't catch the lice either time. I'm not trying to be a biitch but it's not just about me, it's about the kids. Especially in our neighborhood the parents don't have money for expensive treatments or repeated doctor visits. If the nurse says there's no lice the parents are likely to believe them while the kid itches away...
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Good! That sounds like a really tactful way of handling it. Hopefully the principal does something about it!
My mom got lice from one of her students. I'm sorry that you got it and your nurse sucks.
One thing that many people forget that gets them reinfected is not putting all pillows/cushions in their dryer on high to kill them. So make sure you do this!