Super lice’ outbreak hits 25 states

[lovuian]

http://nypost.com/2016/02/26/super-lice-outbreak-hits-25-states/

A strain of so-called ‘super lice’ has hit a reported 25 states, causing concern and frustration among parents because the bugs can’t be killed with most over-the-counter treatments. The treatments, known as pyrethroids, had a 100 percent success rate in 2000 against lice but now only work in 25 percent of cases, KSDK.com reported.

[Mariana]

1. Tremendous.

My kid got lice a couple of times. Good grief what a hassle to get rid of them even when the OTC treatment worked.

[lovuian]

2. Did you see the recent cure

it's in the article and it's expensive but does the job

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

4. It is so expensive to get rid of lice!

I remember when it was going around my son's school years ago, and I wondered how were the poor kids going to get rid of the lice? Especially those girls with long hair? We did two treatments of his hair, had to wash all the bedding, spray the carpet in his room, the upholstery in the living room and the car. I know it cost at least a hundred dollars just for one boy with almost no hair!

Some moms and I got together and donated products and gave them to the school nurse, since she was in a position to know who might need them. We also got the PTA to contribute.

[Hortensis]

7. Long ago it took a bottle of prescription shampoo

and some special combs, washing machine, vacuuming, and plastic bags. But it was a lot more work and aggravation than expense then.

Kept me extremely busy for most of a day, including a 50-minute commute home from work to pick up the kids at school, trips to health department for prescription (pediatrian's office wanted to give us an appointment for the next day!) and then to the pharmacy, but we only lost most of that one day of school and work. I found out what school the nurse would be at the next day and arranged to meet her very early in the morning to inspect the kids, and we were all at our desks on time the next day.

I actually now remember spending much of the afternoon out on the steps with our hands in each others' hair as fairly pleasant "quality family time."

Likely these super lice will just mean prescription-strength treatments, no otc for a while. I did read a rather amazing olive oil treatment just now; you sleep in it to smother the little suckers and it goes on for weeks on special days when their babies hatch or something. Yuck!

[Mariana]

8. That's the method we used

except we used an OTC shampoo the doctor recommended. A full day of work washing, vacuuming, sealing stuff in bags, and dipping stuff in boiling water, plus the shampoo job and the combing. Then the whole thing again after however many days to take care of any stragglers that might have hatched after the first treatment.

[Hortensis]

9. It warms my heart to know that you

remember still the way you do.
Ahhh, I rememberrr it well!

The joys of parenthood, not quite romanticized from the past but worth a smile now that we're safe out of it.

[Mariana]

11. It is rather hard to forget it.

One time they migrated from the kiddo's hair into my hair before we discovered their presence. Such fun.

[Hortensis]

15. LOL and yuck. One of the colleagues I was telling

my funny horror story to asked, pretend seriously, if we lived in a slum. Mistake. Our division VP happened to live in a development just down the hill, so this arrow my direction hit the big guy instead, who was not amused. Oh, well. Memoreees...

[tabasco]

12. Damn.

Glad I got a dog.

[Marrah_G]

14. A couple years ago my friend spend almost 100 bucks on the stuff

She has 2 daughters with very long hair and autism on top of that. Needless to say it took both of us and many hours to complete. What a nightmare.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Dr. Bronner's Soap. Combine the eucalyptus, tea tree, and peppermint versions.

Shampoo with that. Just keep it out of your eyes.

I swear to fucking God they can't survive that shit, under any circumstances.

[jpak]

5. I thought you were posting about GOP Super Tuedsay

[Adrahil]

6. The Cetaphil treatment is labor intensive, but...

it works 100% and the lice cannot develop immunity. Cheap too.

http://www.hasd.org/healthservices/Directions%20for%20use%20of%20the%20Cetaphil%20Lice%20Treatment.pdf

[lovuian]

10. I think the government should

help pay for treatment ....especially if it's superlice

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Not Nice to Lice

I used this on my daughter about 15 years ago, apparently it's now called LiceRGone.


It was actually quite pleasant, easy to use and it worked like gangbusters. It didn't smell or feel like poison and she didn't have to feel a medical patient in quarantine with gloves and protection and what not.

I would do it the same way again.

http://www.licergone.com/

[ebayfool]

16. Good gawd almighty! $170.00 treatment?

snip/

A new FDA-approved treatment called AirAlle, which was developed by Lice Clinics of America, has been found to be effective against the super lice, with treatments costing about $170.

I still have my dog-eared copy of 'Where There is No Doctor' - in a pinch.

[phylny]

17. Brings back not so fond memories.

Two of our three daughters got lice (one of them tried on a hat in a store). Their hair was blond, the exact same color of the nits. I used a high-powered light and my fingers. Nit picking. Sliding those eggs down each hair shaft.

Our oldest daughter somehow escaped them. We thought at the time it might be that she used a blow dryer and the younger ones didn't.

What a PITA it was