Yes…My Taylar seems to have caught a nice batch of nits from someone at school. The nurse decided to phone me, during a very important state test, to inform me that Taylar was itching and that she had many nits in her hair. The kids came home and were just besides themselves. Tobey was very angry that he had to had his head washed because of Taylar and Taylar was obsessed with the fact that lice are bugs and she had bugs in her hair. I kept trying to explain to her that she had no bugs as all they could find were the eggs, but that was not working. She had convinced herself, as Taylar often does, that there was bugs in her hair and she was not going to let that go. On and on she went. See, PDD does not allow Taylar to give things up very easily and we all end up wanting to pull our hair out till it passes and something else occupies her thoughts….So, even now, she is walking throughout the house saying that ‘bugs in your head itch.” I hope tomorrow finds a new obsession…
Little side note: As I was combing her hair out, I noticed that all of the “nits” just flaked out of her head. Ummm, nits/lice do not do that. They stick to the hair follicle. So, now I am really wondering. After all of the linen washing, head scrubbing, and torture to all 5 kids, is this just a bad case of dandruff? All of my kids tend to have very dry scalps and get dandruff/cradle cap from time to time. I KNOW lice. I taught PK for 6 years and saw plenty of it. This was not lice. I guess no harm was done…I will be sure to inform the nurse tomorrow…
