Head Lice Poll

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Just out of curiosity...

Have you ever had head lice? You don't have to comment on this at all. I suppose it might be embarrassing to you if you have had them, but I am curious. I never had head lice. It made the rounds in my schools when I was growing up, and I recently read that very few school children escape the dreaded head lice, but somehow it never touched me. I'm wondering if maybe, my autism could have played into that a bit- perhaps maybe it never got to me because I had such narrow social circles? I guess I'll see what the survey says.

I've just voted no.

Interestingly ( maybe ), I was convinced that I had head lice from 1987 up until 2011. Despite various doctors and specialists telling me otherwise.

It turned out to be psoriasis and easily treated with shampoo. I was suffering from delusions of having parasites.

Until I was 17 I didn't have any scalp problems, and then when I started getting an itchy scalp, two people at work noticed and inspected my scalp and told me that I had head lice. Idiots!

They had mistaken dandruff for eggs. So when the head lice medications didn't work I got really down about it. It wrecked my life for years.

Then in 2011 I started thinking, "Hmm, how come I've never found a single head lice in nearly 25 years?" And then gradually over the next 12 months I came around to the realisation that I had never had them at all.

Why didn't one of the doctors tell me that I had psoriasis, instead of just saying,"No you don't have head lice", and sending me on my way?

Never had lice, but I've had pinworms because I used to bite and suck on my fingers as a stim.

I've never had head lice, thank goodness. I've read that it's not a sign of poor hygiene and that lice actually prefer clean hair and don't care about its length. But people will probably say to me "Sure, that's what they *want* you to think."

When I was a teenager many people, including my own mother, thought my bad dandruff and acne was from poor hygiene, so at least I didn't have the stigma of head lice on top of that.

Well... there was this one incident when I was younger -- a cat I once had was riddled with fleas, and since I would sleep next to it... you get the picture. The itching was DREADFUL.

Where's the poll option for "never had them but they sound like a tasty source of protein"?

Thank goodness, no. At least I escaped that problem. There were enough things that made me stick out like a sore thumb without having something so obviously gross.

Once upon a time, when I was a little girl: yes, yes I do.
Because my classmates and playmates have them too. So were my cousins. Simple as that.

Until I was dragged into a hair salon, and did something other than getting a haircut -- my very first hair rebond and treatment at age 16.

Never had a case of head lice since then.

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^^^ Hmm, I think evolution has made us lose our appetite for grooming our fellow primates and searching for nutritional content at the same time.

no, but it's been a while since i checked.....

are head lice tests still done to children in schools? i don't recall being checked for them past the 6th grade, then the nurse would show up in our class, at the door, about twice a year and us kids would would line up to be checked.

i have trouble imagining how an adult who even just occasionally cleans himself would contract head lice.

children are another story. they're disgusting, though i'd wonder about their parents.

I had nits a lot as a kid. But the thing is I didn't mind getting them. My mum used to sit me in front of the TV and comb through my hair to find the nits, and it was like a massage for me.

Nope.

No, I haven't. It is my understanding that getting head lice is not really related to hygiene like I once thought.

I don't recall ever having head lice.

I washed my hair once a week as a kid. I wash it every day now.

I'm not sure. When I was little, my neighbor got it so my mom got anxious and used the "Lice Removal Kit" from Rite Aid on my head to be safe. I remember just sitting in the bathtub and having her using some sort of special shampoo and pulling at my hair (which was really long and always knotted because I didn't like brushing it) with a tiny comb and I was crying the whole time. It hurt and we weren't even positive I had lice in the first place.