Help Lice!!! We leave for Disney tomorrow!!

[Skatermom23]

I am going to be incredibly mean but Your going to go to Disney and not say anything!!!!!!! That room will have to be completely stripped and treated before the next person sleeps in there! I am a not a germaphobe but come on you are going to leave lice and not say anything? Our kids aren't allowed in class until nit free and your taking yours to a motel room and to sit in close contact for days with people on rides and shows. Are you flying? I am aghast that people are taking such a cavalier attitude toward this and staying in a Hotel room and exposing so many people. Can you postpone a day until you at least get rid of most of the nits? and are you going to spend 2 hours a day on vacation picking nits? If you don't they will be back and spread to so many at Disney it is sad.

I don't think it is right! I'm sorry but sometimes things happen and we have to think of others.

I completely agree with you. What are people thinking? She has treated this child ONE time and thinks that all would be okay to go on a vacation????

 

[Cindyluwho]

I'm going to shout here for a moment: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE VISIT THE WEBSITE HTTP://WWW.HEADLICE.ORG!

Some of the advice given on the boards on this subject is beyond dangerous and does not work. Please go to the experts at headlice.org and get REAL information rather than relying on the DIS. I love all the folks on the DIS but the misinformation on the headlice subject could cost someone their child's life. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!

 

[Daxx]

I am going to be incredibly mean but Your going to go to Disney and not say anything!!!!!!! That room will have to be completely stripped and treated before the next person sleeps in there! I am a not a germaphobe but come on you are going to leave lice and not say anything? Our kids aren't allowed in class until nit free and your taking yours to a motel room and to sit in close contact for days with people on rides and shows. Are you flying? I am aghast that people are taking such a cavalier attitude toward this and staying in a Hotel room and exposing so many people. Can you postpone a day until you at least get rid of most of the nits? and are you going to spend 2 hours a day on vacation picking nits? If you don't they will be back and spread to so many at Disney it is sad.

I don't think it is right! I'm sorry but sometimes things happen and we have to think of others.

Bolding is mine and I did it for emphasis, but ITA w/you! Thanks for spreading your crap around to others who don't want it! Just b/c you have to deal w/it doesn't mean everyone else wants to, OP!

I can see if someone doesn't realize their child has lice ... but to do this knowingly is just plain wrong!!!!

 

[daisyduck123]

It's too late now, & the OP is gone...but just thinking about how everytime her DD will hug a character & then 60 seconds later someone else's child will hug that character is enough to totally creep me out.

I'm sure this won't be the 1st time the characters will have been hugged by kids with lice, - but to do so knowingly

I'm a teacher & know that's exactly how this stuff can be spread.

 

[Oreo Cookie]

I am going to be incredibly mean but Your going to go to Disney and not say anything!!!!!!! That room will have to be completely stripped and treated before the next person sleeps in there! I am a not a germaphobe but come on you are going to leave lice and not say anything? Our kids aren't allowed in class until nit free and your taking yours to a motel room and to sit in close contact for days with people on rides and shows. Are you flying? I am aghast that people are taking such a cavalier attitude toward this and staying in a Hotel room and exposing so many people. Can you postpone a day until you at least get rid of most of the nits? and are you going to spend 2 hours a day on vacation picking nits? If you don't they will be back and spread to so many at Disney it is sad.

I don't think it is right! I'm sorry but sometimes things happen and we have to think of others.

MTE!

 

[DisneyfeverTN]

I agree with Hannathy too. I think it is very irresponsible to take a child to so many public places while treating her for lice. There are too many possibilities that innocent people could be exposed to this: the plane ride, the bus or car ride, anything with a cloth seat, the carpet, bedding, the list goes on. The plane seat and the hotel room should be HUGE concerns.

Not to mention the fact that other family members will be at a higher risk of getting lice just by being in the same hotel room for their visit. I know it would be very hard to reschedule a trip, but taking a child that could spread something to other people is not a good choice.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

I am going to be incredibly mean but Your going to go to Disney and not say anything!!!!!!! That room will have to be completely stripped and treated before the next person sleeps in there! I am a not a germaphobe but come on you are going to leave lice and not say anything? Our kids aren't allowed in class until nit free and your taking yours to a motel room and to sit in close contact for days with people on rides and shows. Are you flying? I am aghast that people are taking such a cavalier attitude toward this and staying in a Hotel room and exposing so many people. Can you postpone a day until you at least get rid of most of the nits? and are you going to spend 2 hours a day on vacation picking nits? If you don't they will be back and spread to so many at Disney it is sad.

I don't think it is right! I'm sorry but sometimes things happen and we have to think of others.

This was my first thought upon reading this thread. How can you do that to anyone?!!! Telling Mousekeeping at the end of your trip is not enough IMO. What about the airlines? Or the ME? Or the millions of other places that your child has spread it to? If I was mousekeeping I would be less than amused especially if you knew the whole trip and said nothing. I think you are being very irresponsible.

 

[my4kids]

I feel like I am becoming the lice official of the DIS.
I've been through this, and I have read EVERYTHING about it and there is ALOT of misinformation on this thread.

First of all go to headlice.org (National Pediculosis Foundation) Head lice is pediculosis. and many questions can be answered there.

Do not let this ruin your trip. If you have done one treatment iwth RID, that has killed any live bugs and even though it does not kill all eggs (those need to be combed out with a fine tooth lice comb), they would not hatch for ten days and would not become adult size for another ten. It is perfect that you are going on vacation, because you do not need to worry about your house. Lice can not live of of a human head for more than 48 hours. So there will not be any lice at your home when you return.

As far as worrying about the hotel room and the airplane, lice can only be tranmitted 2 ways. one would be if your daughter head touched another persons head and a live louse tranferred to their hair. (best way to get it) the other less common way is if your daughter laid her head on something and a live louse remained on the object and within 48 hours someone else head touched the same thing with their own head. First of all , if you already did the RID treatment, there are no live lice, so there is no risk of this. As an extra precaution, you could lay a towel or cloth over the seat in the airplane and remove and wash it when you arrive at disney. The other thing would be to lay a towel over your daughter pillow in Disney and remove it everyday and replace it with a clean one. Even if a louse was on the towel, a regular hot water wash by mousekeeping would kill anything.

Lice can not jump or crawl. They can only move if they are on a human hair. They are not an environmental concern as they do not breed in furniture or carpet as fleas do, but only can live on a head.

The only thing you need to worry about is combing through every inch of your daughter head with a fine tooth lice comb held at a 45degree angle (to scrape out the eggs better) makeing sure to drag in across the scalp (where the eggs are laid) . If you do not do this every couple of days for a couple of weeks, then an egg that is missed would hatch in 2 weeks (after you are out of Disny anyway) and would take 10 days to mature, than would start laying it's own eggs, and in other 2 weeks your daughter would be infested again (most people think when this happens that it is a new infestation, when it is actually the same infestation that has not been treated correctly. )

After one treatment, there is no risk of your daughter spreading it to anyone for at least 2 weeks, if you do not comb out all eggs however, in 2 weeks it could spread.

So basically, your good, have a good vacation and go to the source like The National Pediculosis Foundation and your pediatrician and don't get upset by people who panic and don't have the facts.

 

[Cindyluwho]

If you have done one treatment iwth RID, that has killed any live bugs and even though it does not kill all eggs (those need to be combed out with a fine tooth lice comb), they would not hatch for ten days and would not become adult size for another ten.

my4kids,
I agree with everything in your post except the above statement. The NPA, CDC, etc all agree that RID will NOT kill all the lice. There are always some that are resistant. The rest of your post is top-notch and I totally agree that some of the info that people are posting on the DIS regarding headlice is not only incorrect but also dangerous! Everyone here should check out http://www.headlice.org before they pass on bogus information.

 

[swanmom]

I agree with Hannathy too. I think it is very irresponsible to take a child to so many public places while treating her for lice. There are too many possibilities that innocent people could be exposed to this: the plane ride, the bus or car ride, anything with a cloth seat, the carpet, bedding, the list goes on.

OK, Folks. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED BACK IN SCHOOL UNTIL THEY CAN BE SHOWN TO BE LICE FREE !!!!!! An application of RID does not guarentee that you're lice free. You should not expose other people until you have it under control......period!

(I probably am just a little more opinionated than other on this because DH and two other passengers in his row got bumped off a plane once when the flight attendants found out right after the plane landed from a previous leg that the little girl who had just gotten off in that seat had lice! The mom didn't say a word but the passenger in front of them overheard something and notified the attendants. DH was furious and ended up being late for a really important keynote speech!)

 

[mickeysgal]

I feel like I am becoming the lice official of the DIS.

This is not a tag you'd want.

 

[Mermaid02]

Hannathy you posted exactly what I was thinking. It stinks that this happened right before WDW but I couldn't in good conscience travel and spread the love.

 

[my4kids]

OK, Folks. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED BACK IN SCHOOL UNTIL THEY CAN BE SHOWN TO BE LICE FREE !!!!!! An application of RID does not guarentee that you're lice free. You should not expose other people until you have it under control......period!

(I probably am just a little more opinionated than other on this because DH and two other passengers in his row got bumped off a plane once when the flight attendants found out right after the plane landed from a previous leg that the little girl who had just gotten off in that seat had lice! The mom didn't say a word but the passenger in front of them overheard something and notified the attendants. DH was furious and ended up being late for a really important keynote speech!)

having it "under control" consists of a good comb through with a lice comb. Even if RID does not kill ALL live lice( although the bottle claims it does) and nit comb would get out any remaining ones.

One treatment of RID (which isn't even nessesary as noted in a previous post) and a comb through with a lice comb and it is UNDER CONTROL.

The situation with the little girl on the plane you mentioned was a over reation of a passenger and the airline. The little girl had probably been recently treated and said something to a parent regarding it and a passenger freaked. All of this misinformation and panic is really dangerous. First of all, lice do not harm you at all. The insecticide shampoos do more harm than the lice to children. People rid their children of lice for thousands of years with combs before insecticides were invented.

 

[Hannathy]

I do not believe for one moment that one treatment of rid is going to guarantee that all the lice are gone. I have seen people treated with different "poisons" and if infested enough will still have live lice! And I'm not talking the over the counter stuff. You also say Eggs take 2 weeks I was taught 7-10 days, but even still not all the eggs on her head were laid today. She may have had the lice for a week or two. one or two lice don't itch that much and may be missed, so some of those eggs could be ready to hatch tomorrow, or the next day. If she does not get those nits out she still has lice. and they did not and from the sounds of it did they plan to get all of the nits out before going. I still don't see her taking hours while on vacation to comb them all out. So all those nits start hatching and for a week she spreads lice to every seat and character, and lice most certainly can crawl!!!

No wonder lice is so prevalent now. It is totally irresponsible to take a child with lice to an environment like Disney. But then again the guy with TB said he felt well so who cares about the rest of society.

 

[Mermaid02]

Lice may not "hurt" you, but they are a pain in the butt to get rid of! Sorry- we haven't had to go down that road yet ((knock on wood)) and I certainly hope we don't have to- but I watched my friend as she worked her behind off trying to get rid of the lice her dd brought home from a shopping trip (trying on hats).

One treatment does NOT guarantee you've killed all the live lice either..... and if lice don't "crawl" how do they move on your head?

 

[my4kids]

I do not believe for one moment that one treatment of rid is going to guarantee that all the lice are gone. I have seen people treated with different "poisons" and if infested enough will still have live lice! And I'm not talking the over the counter stuff. You also say Eggs take 2 weeks I was taught 7-10 days, but even still not all the eggs on her head were laid today. She may have had the lice for a week or two. one or two lice don't itch that much and may be missed, so some of those eggs could be ready to hatch tomorrow, or the next day. If she does not get those nits out she still has lice. and they did not and from the sounds of it did they plan to get all of the nits out before going. I still don't see her taking hours while on vacation to comb them all out. So all those nits start hatching and for a week she spreads lice to every seat and character, and lice most certainly can crawl!!!

No wonder lice is so prevalent now. It is totally irresponsible to take a child with lice to an environment like Disney. But then again the guy with TB said he felt well so who cares about the rest of society.

A good hour long , comb one section at a time comb through would take care of the nits.

It could be repeated every couple of days to make sure none were missed.

And no, lice can't crawl unless they are on a shaft of hair. I would love to see the scientific information you have suggesting otherwise.

 

[tiggersmom2]

I do not believe for one moment that one treatment of rid is going to guarantee that all the lice are gone. I have seen people treated with different "poisons" and if infested enough will still have live lice! And I'm not talking the over the counter stuff. You also say Eggs take 2 weeks I was taught 7-10 days, but even still not all the eggs on her head were laid today. She may have had the lice for a week or two. one or two lice don't itch that much and may be missed, so some of those eggs could be ready to hatch tomorrow, or the next day. If she does not get those nits out she still has lice. and they did not and from the sounds of it did they plan to get all of the nits out before going. I still don't see her taking hours while on vacation to comb them all out. So all those nits start hatching and for a week she spreads lice to every seat and character, and lice most certainly can crawl!!!

No wonder lice is so prevalent now. It is totally irresponsible to take a child with lice to an environment like Disney. But then again the guy with TB said he felt well so who cares about the rest of society.

I agree. I can not imagine having a child with lice and letting them "infest" a room at WDW for some poor unsuspecting guest.

 

[lovemygoofy]

A good hour long , comb one section at a time comb through would take care of the nits.

It could be repeated every couple of days to make sure none were missed.

And no, lice can't crawl unless they are on a shaft of hair. I would love to see the scientific information you have suggesting otherwise.

I have seen lice crawl. There was a girl in front of me in high school that had it crawling around all in her hair. I promise you that I noticed things started moving around in her hair and not just like a bug it was ALOT of little bitty things moving around in her hair. I felt really bad for her and didn't want to tell her, mostly because I didn't want to get that close, so I whispered it to the teacher. The poor girl was out for a week and came back with extremely short hair.

 

[Mermaid02]

Is this thread making anyone else itch like mad???

 

[my4kids]

I agree. I can not imagine having a child with lice and letting them "infest" a room at WDW for some poor unsuspecting guest.

Oh .....MY.........goodness.........

Again a room can NOT be infested. These critters will ONLY breed on a human head. They can only move on hair. If the sheets are changed between guests, there is absolutely no way it could spread to the next occupant of the room. They are not like fleas.


If the mother has combed though the head and removed all eggs she is clear, and any school would let her back. It would be strongly suggested to keep combing thoough the hair (all parts and scalp) for a few weeks just in case an egg is missed.

I am wondering when all of you lice-phobic people would be satisfied with this poor child being allowed to travel again. should she be quarantined for weeks, months? what would make you happy? When my son had lice (almost his whole class had the honor ) we were told by the school and the pediatrician that as long as he was thoroughly combed through and upon a second comb through there were no eggs or live lice on the comb, he was welcome back. He was also welcome back with one treatment of RID if I chose to go that route. I continued to comb through every night for about 2 weeks, and once in a long while I would find an egg I missed, but he never got lice again.

My advise to the OP is do what the pediatrician says (which I'm sure will be the same as what I said) and don't listen to misinformed people.