How timely!!
DS came home from CC with nits today First time! Not bad for a long-haired hippy to go so long, given he's been in CC one or two days a week since 19mo. I rushed out to the supermarket to get a treatment cos we don't have a nit comb and the only way I could get one from the only shop around that was open that would have them was to buy a treatment. Luckily, I found QuitNit, which has the essential oils as active ingredients and no nasty chemicals. DS is in the shower as I type getting shampood. I have all the essential oils listed, just no base conditioner, but might make up a spray using the Moo Goo conditioner I have.
DS is impossible, but we managed to get the stuff through his hair and DP managed to give it a good combing. Lots of critters...I thought I would be really grossed out, but because you can hardly see them on a tissue backdrop, there wasn't much to be confronted by. Except the knowledge that they've been crawling on his scalp and making him itch! He hadn't been around other kids since last week's CC session, really (playgroup he doesn't mix with anyone), so that's be where he got it from.
I'm under no illusion that it's the dirty kids who bring it into schools/CC - I reckon if he didn't have the curls I would let his hair get greasy so that the lice couldn't hold onto it! So, because it's long and curly, it gets washed every day. Probably what's attracted them!
So, should I isolate him from going to playgroup tomorrow? Or will having started the treatment be ok? I'm inclined to withhold him, but then I'll have a very antsy 4yo to deal with...and his long-suffering baby sister and I will have to bear it!