Everything Old is New Again: Header to Head Lice
We have a new header on our blog. We think it captures the feeling you will have when you find Parentopia. We'd like nothing more for you to lay back, relax and enjoy being with your family. There is much to be said for just plopping down on your back and staring up into the sky.
Even if it's only for a few minutes. Watching clouds go by, making up stories about the shapes you see. It's an activity that is absolutely free and one which can be enjoyed by people of all ages and stages. It can be a distraction for a tantruming child, or a way to occupy an older kid while you are taking a road trip. It's almost always an instant "ahhh" for an adult, where you can let the day's stress just float out of your body and up into the atmosphere.
Unless your kid has head lice, then there is nothing relaxing at all about that. We needed a transition sentence. Admittedly this one is terrible. Feel free to write your own and put it in our comments.
If you are dealing with lice, lice baby, check out "The Meaning of Lice" which was sent to us by Neil who thought we'd be interested in reading it . He was right. We love us some nice word play on Monty Python, whether that was his intention or not. We also appreciate Neil rummaging around our archive and letting us know our lousy post brought him to Parentopia.
The last time we wrote about head lice, our stats surged as we welcomed new Parentopians Googling:
do u feel lice on your face?
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parents complaining about headlice
child doesn t have lice but parent feels crawly itchy scalp
mom has lice
head lice make you feel lousy
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my head really itches but i don t have head lice
can you get lice in a pool
lice eradication stuff
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what percentage of parents know how to deal with head lice
can lice or nits fall out of your scalp onto your face
Feel free to offer up your own answers and/or information to any of the Googling. The searches will continue for a good 6 months to a year, so you have plenty of time to scratch your itch to respond.
posted by Devra and Aviva @ 2:59 PM
9 Comments:
I love the new header, but part of the word "parentopia" does get a bit cut off at the top, just FYI :)
Rats, it does that on my browser too! Our webmaster is trying to fix! Thanks for letting us know it's a problem in your browser as well.
I think the header is fixed now! (isn't it?)
And thanks (not) for me spending the afternoon reading about lice again. AaaggghH!!!!
Now my head itches all of a sudden.
Mine itches too. Make it stop!
How come this doesn't happen when fleas are being discussed?
You can safely and effectively kill lice with salt water or a sauna - learn how to kill lice without killing yourself or the earth......
The head louse (Pediculus humanus capitas) (DeGeer), the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) (Linnaeus) and the crab louse (Pthirus pubis) (Linnaeus) all occur on humans. All three cause considerable skin irritation as they feed on human blood or crawl on the body.
Human lice can establish and maintain themselves only on humans. A louse cannot hop or jump. They can, however, crawl fast. They are usually transmitted only through close personal contact. They are less frequently transmitted through the sharing of personal articles or toilet seats. For head lice, this includes combs, brushes and other grooming aids, hats, headbands, helmets, caps, headrests, wigs, curlers or other headgear, especially when these items are stored in shared lockers. They spread or infest by crawling, they live by biting and sucking blood from the scalp and can survive for up to 48 hours off a human head, and the nits on a hair shaft can survive from 4 - 10 days - so vacuum thoroughly and/or spray/clean with diluted Safe Solutions, Inc. Enzyme Cleaner with Peppermint.
Important Note: Pediculicide POISONS do not remove nits and are dangerous. Among the reactions to poison shampoo or lice "treatments" are seizures, mental retardation, many different allergies and respiratory problems, strange tingling, burning, itching, attention deficit disorders, brain tumors, leukemia, cancer and death.
I have used a sauna and/or salt water to safely and effectiely kill lice (but the nits remain).
I have also used ½ oz. of Safe Solutions, Inc. Lice R Gone® Enzyme Shampoo and/or their Enzyme Cleaner with Peppermint per shampoo-type application to safely remove both lice and nits in a few minutes. These non-poisonous enzyme shampoos make the hair so slick lice and nits can't stick and lice can not live off the body for very long.
If you are still having lice problems, read the latest chapter http://www.thebestcontrol2.com.
It looks MAH-velous, dah-ling!
I'm late, late, late, but I LOVE the new blog look!
You are late? Not a problem. We aren't going to ask you for a note, we're happy you got here whenever you did!
Thanks for the compliment!
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