How did I spend the last days of our school holidays?
Combing nits out of my daughters hair!!
YUCK!
It's something I've been expecting and waiting for. Miss5 has long hair that's easily knotted and wavy.
I always thought she would be a prime candidate for nits so I'm surprised it's taken 5 and a half years for it to happen.
So when Miss 5 started scratching a few days before school went back I wasn't too surprised.
I had a look through her hair and saw a few eggs. Gross! Just to be sure I got mum to double check-working in a school she has WAY more knowledge than me when it comes to nits.
Yep it definitely was.
It was too late to go to the shops that night so there next afternoon off to the chemist we went.
Seriously has anyone been to the nit aisle in a chemist??? It's an entire aisle with a billion different products. I had no idea where to begin and clearly I looked lost because soon an assistant was helping me.
We used QuitNits. It came with a lotion to kill eggs and live nits, a preventative spray for daily use and one of the magic nit combs.
When I was little nit combs were metal and they hurt like hell. This one was plastic but I was still dreading using it expecting tears and tantrums like I used to when I got my hair combed.
The lotion needed to be left on for 4 hours and it was too late to start so I left it for the next day. Early next morning on went the lotion, I also had Mr3 and myself treated-just to be sure.
I washed all the sheets, pillow cases, towels etc.
4 hours later we washed it all out and I started combing Miss5's hair and WOW!!
Overnight all the eggs had hatched and there were now bloody millions of dead nits in her head. Combing through was disgusting, I was running the comb through her hair and having to wipe all the dead nits off on a tissue before I could comb again.
YUCK!
Thankfully it was only Miss5 that had nits, we seem to have escaped it with nothing.
We also explained to Miss5 that nits was not something you told other people about (because some mums get real thingy about it) and that she needed to leave her head alone.
Of course this worked well-first thing, first day back at school she started scratching her head and telling me her head was itchy in front of everyone!! Good one Kaitlyn! By that stage though all the nits were gone and the scratching was becoming out of habit. So it was embarrassing to then have to explain she had nits BUT that she had been treated and they were all gone.
So my first experience with nits. It was gross but a whole lot easier than I ever remember. I'm sure when I was little it took a lot more hard work-or maybe it just felt that way because I hated it so much.
Does this count as another milestone reached?
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