Lousy Weekend

[mysid]

My poor daughter is having a lousy weekend. She knows that I have to go over everything with a fine-toothed comb, but she is getting fed up with my nitpicking. Literally.

Yes, friends, lice. We've been having an epidemic of lice at my children's school, and as of a couple days ago, my daughter E is the latest victim. Now we are washing, steam cleaning, and spraying everything. Die, lice, die.
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Comments

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Ugh. And ew. Hope they go away soon. (How long does it normally take?)

[mysid.livejournal.com]

The eggs hatch after ten days, and the eggs are harder to kill than the bugs. So after you kill all the lice in your hair, comb out all the nits (eggs) you can find, and clean everything that might have lice or nits on them (clothes, bedding, furniture, etc.), you have to keep doing it all over again--and again--for at least ten days. Otherwise, those few nits you didn't manage to find will hatch, mate, lay more nits, and start it all over again.