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Poor Little Mite
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Tawny | Report | 8 May 2021 20:51 |
In the USA ended up in hospital with head lice. It was so bad the little girl couldn’t walk and was very nearly at deaths door due to blood loss. The child was just four years old. Her six year old sister also had them but no where near as badly. This has been an issue since November but it’s taken till now for anyone to be report concerns but the mother has now been charged with neglect. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 May 2021 21:11 |
I read that too! |
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Tawny | Report | 8 May 2021 21:31 |
I don’t know if the mother had them too but even if she didn’t she must have seen them in her daughters hair for them to have it that bad. |
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Sharron | Report | 8 May 2021 21:32 |
I had head lice. |
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Tawny | Report | 8 May 2021 21:33 |
I had head lice a couple of times as a child and my mum was along to the chemist for a nit comb and medicated shampoo. |
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LaGooner | Report | 8 May 2021 21:39 |
I caught them off a Brownie Tawny :-0 |
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Tawny | Report | 8 May 2021 21:44 |
I have to be 2 metres away from them at the moment LG :-D |
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LaGooner | Report | 8 May 2021 21:49 |
:-D :-D :-D :-D I don't mix with them at all now :-D |
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Sharron | Report | 8 May 2021 21:50 |
Two metres is quite a good distance to keep from a Brownie anyway! |
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Tawny | Report | 8 May 2021 21:56 |
20 years and counting but I’m sure I’ll leave eventually. I keep meaning to and then forget at the start of a new term. I’m sure there’s a name for that form of amnesia somewhere :-D |
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LaGooner | Report | 8 May 2021 22:04 |
I ran 2 brownie and a rainbow unit for 17 years until I retired. It's called commitment and I think I should have been committed ;-) :-D :-D.I loved every minute of it :-D |
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Tawny | Report | 8 May 2021 22:19 |
One rainbows and one brownie unit and I love my girls and I love watching them grow. The people they most admire include Rosalind Franklyn, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Ada Lovelace, Mary Seacole, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mary Shelley, Emily Davison, Mary Anning, Margaret Thatcher and Marie Curie. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 9 May 2021 11:33 |
Head lice were not unusual in my children's schools at one time. Easy to see why when you consider the make-up of their classes. |
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Linda | Report | 10 May 2021 23:29 |
I had them as a child but back then the nit nurse came into school and if she found them in your hair you were sent home and told not to come back till your hair was clean. I remember leaning over the sink for ages and my hair being combed through with the nit comb and all these nits falling out in the sink, the trouble is the nit nurse stopped going into school so hair is not checked so the spread :-( :-( |
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JoyLouise | Report | 11 May 2021 10:06 |
My Dad always told us to keep our heads away from others as the lice were good jumpers. |
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Denburybob | Report | 11 May 2021 18:32 |
Tawny, was the pun, (mite, head lice) intended? |