True Confession: Even the Lice Lady’s Child Gets Lice Sometimes!

Last Thursday was a particularly busy day at our Lice Treatment Center. I returned home after 6:00 that evening to the usual… make dinner, check homework, baths, etc. I had already told myself that it was time to comb through my girls’ hair, because it had been over a week since I had done so — we were out of town for spring break. As my youngest daughter was in the bath, I noticed what looked like a nit on a strand of hair on her forehead. I quickly examined it further and, sure enough, that’s exactly what it was!

Having been through this before (and having a slight advantage with my chosen profession), I quickly applied the enzyme product we use at the center and started making all the phone calls. Within 30 minutes I had checked and cleared my other daughter and three of our neighbor’s children. Then I began my fifth strand-by-strand treatment of the day on my own child at 8:30 at night. Luckily I caught it very early (due to weekly combing) and was able to get through her hair relatively quickly.

I realized that there would be no way I could locate the source of this infestation, because we had been all over the place last week, as we are pretty much every week. So I just informed everyone I could think of, including her teacher and homeroom mother. I also realized that I had allowed my daughter to wear her hair down last week and had run out of our mint shampoo (Lice Beware shampoo, of course). Anyway, all of my friends got a laugh out of it, and I can truly say… I am not only the co-founder of Lice Beware… I’m also a client!