Wow ... I am so glad we haven't been the only ones going through this awful process!!! The past week has been absolutely horrible. All of the washing, picking, cleaning, and vacuuming .... ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! We had used a solution on the Monday (a week ago), but I kept finding tons of live ones (the mother hens ... mine is the kiddo afraid of bugs

). I picked and picked for days and couldn't figure out why they weren't dying from the darn solution. I did the conditioner, the vinegar and water and still find them. Finally I called a different pharmacy in town where they make up their own solution, as the lice is becoming resistent to many of the different types of solutions we use on their heads (pesticides I might add!). This solution worked wonders!! You rub it in to their scalp and leave it for 12 hours (it dries ... it has an alcohol base I believe) and when she woke up in the morning there were about 15 dead lice on her pillow (YUCK!!!!!!

). Now I've just kept picking and am finding an occasional nit, but they are further down the scalp, which means they are dead. They are also coming off too easily to be still viable.
So I think we have finally got this beat

(for the time being) ... all it takes now is for her to run into the same kid at school, or gymnastics, or babysitters, that passed this on to begin with. My youngest dd has not contracted it, so it leads me to believe it is school or gymnastics. We are now using tea tree spritzer on their hair every morning and just praying that it stays AWAY!!!! I have never had such an itchy head in all of my life ... I teach kdgn and have never caught it, but when it was my own kiddo .... oh man!!!! I was never good at detecting students with it, but now I sure know what to look for ...

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Good luck to those still battling it ... I dont' know if I can every let my guard down now!!
Kerri
