{"id":1694,"date":"2006-10-20T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/kicked-while-were-down\/"},"modified":"2006-10-20T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T04:06:00","slug":"kicked-while-were-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/kicked-while-were-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicked while we’re down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will seemed better this morning. No fever. Happy. Energetic. Cute. He asked to go to school. After some discussion, we obliged. Paul dropped him off and picked him up. I worked. Had meetings. Will came home and had a long nap. Cuddled with Kate. Went to the playground. Had tickle fights with me. Then, a few minutes before 5pm, school called.<\/p>\n

“We had an incident with the preschoolers.”<\/p>\n

Pediculus capitis<\/span>. Head lice. Found on one of Will’s classmates, who shares the infestation with his or her older sybling, whose primary school noticed it earlier in the day. Oh. My. God. I looked down. Will was nose to nose with his sister, giving her butterfly kisses and making her giggle. With a deep breath, I bent down and parted his hair.<\/p>\n

Were those brown specks… dirt??<\/p>\n

We found this picture<\/a> and thought it resembled the possible dirt. I freaked out, drove immediately to the Walgreens located roughly 500 yards from my house, picked up a three step treatment, and rushed home. Within 30 minutes of the phone call, Will was sitting with treatment shampoo on his head. \"\"<\/a>Poor guy. He was afraid from the commotion, not entirely feeling well (he’d had a big day), and now was being subjected to hair combing. (Did I mention his hair is on the longish side because he needs a haircut?)<\/p>\n

Am I going off the deep end?<\/p>\n

Anyone out there have experience with headlice? And what do we do about the school? AAP and others recommend against “no nit” policies. But how do we prevent a repeat and make sure that this infestation dies off? I’m curious as to how other folks would feel in my shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will seemed better this morning. No fever. Happy. Energetic. Cute. He asked to go to school. After some discussion, we obliged. Paul dropped him off and picked him up. I worked. Had meetings. Will came home and had a long nap. Cuddled with Kate. Went to the playground. Had tickle fights with me. Then, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}