Do you get itchy when someone says "head lice?"

[Renew Deal]

[3catwoman3]

1. Without fail.

I'm a nurse practitioner in a pediatric office, so we see lice from time to time, and withing 5 minutes, all of us are itchy - totally psychosomatic.

[elleng]

2. No, I recall the year when my daughter had them,

LONG hair, and repeated applications of that stuff, with the little comb. Pain in the neck bonding time.

[azurnoir]

5. oh my would that be the great outbreak of the '90's?

I finally found the trick it was Vaseline, really put the stuff in her hair leave it for 15 minutes comb through and wash out - now that part got dicey had to use dawn for the first rinse

I was pregnant with my youngest at the time and hesitant for any of us to be exposed to all that inecticide

[elleng]

10. Maybe was.

She was born in '85, was in 'school' at the time. Her hair was SO long and wavy, took YEARS to do the combing.

[RebelOne]

12. When I was 6 years old, my mother put me into a boarding school

on Miami Beach and I caught head lice while I was there. She immediately took me out of the school. The best cure in those days (the 1940s) was to douse the hair with kerosene. It worked but really stunk.

[elleng]

13. EEEWWWW!!!

Glad you survived!

[Nolimit]

3. Yes

Other bugs can do it for me too. I saw a hobo spider in my room earlier and anytime I felt any sensation on my skin, I frantically brushed myself off.

[NJCher]

4. so I'm not the only one!

I do it with mosquitoes! I think I'm bit and 20" later I will check the same site on my arm or wherever and ....nada!

Totally my imagination.


Cher

[MADem]

6. They featured in the first episode of the new TV series MANHATTAN, and yes, I got itchy

when I watched that episode. Ewww!

[dr.strangelove]

7. Not really

Head lice happen in schools every year. It does not bother me.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

8. No, but I do get itchy when someone says "bed bugs".

I have direct, personal experience of bed bugs. I have not experienced head lice.

[femmocrat]

9. OMG yes.

I had a student in my homeroom one year who was always being sent home for head lice. I started using Scalpicin and even went to the doctor to have my head checked. It nearly drove me crazy. The kid moved and my itching disappeared.

[cyberswede]

11. Turns out I get itchy when someone types it, too.

[2theleft]

14. Without fail...

And walking through a spider web can have me looking for the spider HOURS later when ever I feel anything brush against my skin!!

[etherealtruth]

15. My daughter had head lice when she was ~10

Aside from the horror of dealing with thick curly waste length hair .... I would wake up at night scratching ....I checked my scalp daily for TWO YEARS

(probably doesn't speak well of my mental health ... but is nonetheless true)

[KurtNYC]

16. Not if it is Elton John saying it...

Hold me closer Tony Daaaaaaanza !

Count the head lice on the Hiiiiiiigh waaaay....