When my child was sent home from school with head lice my first stop was the pharmacy to stock up on lice removal shampoos, lice treatment kits, and an assortment of lice combs. Although a quick internet search did provide me with pictures of head lice (not to be confused with body lice) I still didn’t feel I could identify a louse or recognize a nit on my child’s head. After several days of vigorous combing and repetitive shampooing my child was still scratching. My pediatrician informed me that “Control is made difficult because lice become resistant to insecticides”. I didn’t want to use insecticides on my child! I realized that if I found live lice in combings after treatment, the head lice were probably resistant to the product I used.
Monday, November 17, 2008
My kids have lice!
When my child was sent home from school with head lice my first stop was the pharmacy to stock up on lice removal shampoos, lice treatment kits, and an assortment of lice combs. Although a quick internet search did provide me with pictures of head lice (not to be confused with body lice) I still didn’t feel I could identify a louse or recognize a nit on my child’s head. After several days of vigorous combing and repetitive shampooing my child was still scratching. My pediatrician informed me that “Control is made difficult because lice become resistant to insecticides”. I didn’t want to use insecticides on my child! I realized that if I found live lice in combings after treatment, the head lice were probably resistant to the product I used.
