[blparent] help with mutent lice

Thu Feb 9 19:21:54 UTC 2012

Have you checked with your local health department to see if they help in 
the removal of lice. I remember as a child, that ours did.
Pipi
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From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
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Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] help with mutent lice


> Kate,
> Since this is a medical issue that you can't solve without sight, could 
> you get insurance to cover it as in health insurance?
>
> If picking them out is part of the treatment and you can't do it because 
> it requires sight, could insurance pay for you to have this done?
> Or maybe the school has some sort of program like they do for kids who get 
> free and reduced lunches?
> Your kids need to be in school, lice is keeping them from school, so it 
> seems like the school system could also be a source of helping you resolve 
> the issue.
> Any idea how your girls got the lice? I ask because they will probably 
> come into contact with that source again, so the source will need to have 
> some big guns thrown at it too.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Peggy
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:11 AM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] help with mutent lice
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> Oh and by the way, I'm not sure about decting them without sight, you 
> can't
> really feel them I don't think, they're so small, the eggs and the bugs, I
> bought a comb that was supposed to zap at the detection of at least live
> lice but it zapped all the time, even when not in hair.  So with me I 
> guess
> I never found a way to do it without sight.  I just used my daughter and
> when we'd comb through her hair I'd ask her to look through the comb, I
> can't remember how old your daughter is if this will work or not.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Veronica Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:24 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] help with mutent lice
>
> Did you pick her up from daycare?  If so, then the daycare needs to be
> notified as well as all the parents.  Unfortunately, they spread like
> wildfire.  Nits used to be thought to have come from unkept or unclean 
> hair
> but over the years it has been found that that is not the case.  They just
> are, like ants, they just seem to appear and hopefully you will find the
> cause of them soon.  It might be  that you get rid of them and then your
> baby picks up that certain toy and wala, back again.  That is what 
> happened
> with my friends kids.  She thought they were gone and then in a day or 2
> they were back and come to find out, they were in the mattress and on the
> headrest in the car. So she just kept getting them again and again.  When
> they finally sprayed those items, the lice went away.
> I am not much for chemicals, but in this case, chemicals is what you need.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Kate McEachern
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:55 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] help with mutent lice
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> My oldest got it the first time at a winter camp.  I got rid of them fast
> cleened, shampued and did all of what I am doing now and it worked.  But
> this time its not and I just picked up the baby and she has nits.  I can't
> aford to take them to this place to have them treated so I'm stuck fixing 
> it
> myseolf.
>
> But I don't know what elce to try.  I spoke with their docter and she just
> told me to treat them again.  So I have gotten no answers except that at
> some point they'll die.
>
> Kate
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
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>> Kate, where did you kiddos get them from?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Kate McEachern
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 9:51 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [blparent] help with mutent lice
>>
>> Thanks I'll try this.
>> Kate
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Baldwin" <mbaldwin at gpcom.net>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 11:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] help with mutent lice
>>
>>
>>> Make sure EVERYTHING is getting cleaned as well, sheets, blankets,
>>> stuffed
>>> animals, pillows brushes, combs, etc...
>>> Lice have been mutating and a lot of the commercial products do not 
>>> work.
>>> Doctors still tell people to use them, because it does work in some
>>> cases.
>>> 1/4 cup of each mayo, rubbing alcohol, peroxide, and Listerine 
>>> mouthwash.
>>> Coat hair and cover with a shower cap or plastic bag tied tight.
>>> Leave on for a few hours.
>>> Comb out with a nit comb, combing in all directions.
>>> Rinse well with dish soap.
>>> Apply leave in conditioner.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Kate McEachern
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 9:23
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>>> Subject: [blparent] help with mutent lice
>>>
>>> OK, I am about to rip my own hair out.  My lovly children with their 
>>> long
>>> hair had lice.  I treated Tiffany quickly with organic products and dog
>>> shampue.  So she is back to school.  Ash is more of a chalenge.  They
>>> won't
>>> die.  I have tried vinnager, olive ooil with t-tree oil, dog shampue,
>>> rid,
>>> and this cream rince my docter recamended that was going take care of 
>>> the
>>> ishue.  Well, the dam things arn't dead and I had to make an apointment
>>> at
>>> one of those places that prommises they can kill them for like $148 to
>>> start
>>> but could be more.  I nead something to kill them before morning so lets
>>> hear what you got.  I'll try anything at this point and even bought nair
>>> for
>>> if they just won't die.
>>>
>>> Kate
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