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Posted: Wednesday March 2nd, 2005 22:49 |
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i have never in all my days had head lice and god willing will hopfully never have them, however i am now working within a nursery with small children and am aware that headlice is just one of the things that you can catch if the children are carrying them, like when i caught chicken pox last year
However i am a lil confussed about headlice and afro hair, i have heard miths that headlice just wont live in our hair in its nappy state as the hair is just to curly for it to lactch on and live off, somthing to do with headlice like staraight hair as its easy to move up and down the strands and move from strand to strand, but i am aware that i am probaly talking nonsense. My mom says things to me like, if u ever got lice iw ould hava cut your big ol head of hair co it would be a nightmare de louseing it
Has anyone ever had lice or had children that had lice and hpw would you get rid of them?
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Posted: Wednesday March 2nd, 2005 23:08 |
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The following is taken from a website
Can head lice live in afro hair?
One very popular myth is that afro hair is a no-go area for head lice and nits. Unfortunately, this is not true. Head lice may find it more difficult to move around in thicker coarser hair, but as long as the head remains warm, they'll survive in it.
Nits are the eggs of lice, which stick to the hairs closest to the scalp. They can vary in colour from greyish white to brown, and produce eggs, which hatch after just seven days.
Lice are the actual insects that lay the eggs, and pierce the scalp for blood to feed. Each lice is capable of laying around eight eggs a night, within a seven to ten day period.
If you find head lice in your child's hair, it isn't anything to be ashamed of - head lice are attracted to both clean and dirty hair. Research also shows that the occurrence of head lice cuts across all social-economic groups, rich and poor.
Another myth that needs to be dispelled is that lice can jump around classrooms. Quite simply, they don't. They're quite content to stay on one warm head until that head comes into close contact with another head, and they are transferred to new pastures.
Why don't you check out these links
http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/Mosby_factsheets/head_lice.html
http://www.nits.net/bugbusting/mistaken.cfm
http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/lice.html
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/lice.htm
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Posted: Friday March 4th, 2005 03:10 |
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This is funny as hell to me....
My mother used to warn me about getting too close to white kids in school because so many of them had "lice" in their hair.
None of my friends every complained of having lice...."head" lice anyway....so I have no idea of what they look like or the symptoms.
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Posted: Friday March 4th, 2005 17:14 |
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@Ahmaad
They used to do checks in our primary school we all had to line up and a nurse would check our hair and yes you guessed it, it was always the white kids that had the head lice.
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Posted: Saturday March 5th, 2005 17:23 |
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Maf:
They used to do checks in our primary school we all had to line up and a nurse would check our hair and yes you guessed it, it was always the white kids that had the head lice.
They called them "coodies" when I was comming up and I remember those checks as well.
The poor chumps (yes..always white kids) who got pulled out suffered the embarrasment of having thier coats, books, and other belongings stuffed in a clear plastic bag and sent home for the day with a paper note pinned to their shirts.
....ahhh school days.
I should drop a thread on the little silly sh*t I rememberd in grade school just to see just how much we all have in common.
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Posted: Tuesday March 22nd, 2005 13:37 |
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Hey Mafdet,
Love that picture of the two ladies.
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