Getting someone to sort out their nits!

Hi everyone! We need help!There's this girl in the area that I live that has nits. Everybody knows that she has them because she's forever scratching her head, picking stuff out sometimes and you can see them all crawling around in her hair all the time. :puke:

It's utterly disgusting, especially as she has had them since junior school- she's now in Sixth Form. It's not as if she doesn't have the money to get nit treatment or go on school trips because she gets lots of money from her job but instead she's more concerned with dying her hair and spends all her money on all the latest phones, lots of CD's, clothes, magazines and junk food etc. Her parents too just buy her concert tickets and don't feel a need to sort it out. She knows she has them but she keeps denying it and when anyone brings the subject up, she insults them repeatedly, even her friends. She said once that she tried 2 applications of the stuff but the nits didn't disappear- well obviously not! Then when someone tries to tell her about the applications etc she goes off on one again and says she's not going to buy the treatment anymore because she can't afford too, which is a blatant lie.
You might say to not bother with her as she wont help herself but it's really off-putting having to sit next to her with them all crawling and her scratching and picking away like mad! :mad:

Plus everyone is fed up with getting nits from her all the time! The school doesn't send her home but instead lets her go on residential trips with the younger ones to look after them when she isn't good with children and there's bound to be an epidemic of nits there!

How can we make her sort her nits out, not just for our sakes but hers too?

Reply 1

MRNO

11

I knew this turkish man who's hair was crawling with nits, I told him to sort his self out! It was disgusting.

Reply 2

Anonymous #1

OP

But loads of ppl have told her and she still wont do anything about it- neither will the school!

Reply 3

Chi3f

1

then dont hang around with her

Reply 4

K o k o

1

What, the school wont do anything?!
That's crazy talk!

In primary school the teacher would check each student for nits every few years & if they had nits they would get sent home & wouldn't be allowed back till they're nit free!

Maybe the application thingy didn't work coz she didn't remove all of the nits & they hatched.
She should get one of those special nit combs or something.

Reply 5

Talya

16

Get everyone to stare and look disgusted everytime they see her. Once she's unpopular, she'll think twice.

Reply 6

MRNO

11

I heard that lots of turkish people suffered from this problem, they don't care about hair hygiene.

Reply 7

Anonymous #1

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Chi3f

then dont hang around with her

I don't and the other ppl that keep catching from her too don't either but the school is such a close environment what with ppl walking around and too and from lessons etc. Plus seating plans are problems because the teachers know that she has nits but they wont let you move! :mad:

though ppl including myself have moved before but she follows us around! :mad:

Reply 8

Anonymous #1

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Talya

Get everyone to stare and look disgusted everytime they see her. Once she's unpopular, she'll think twice.

I don't have to do that because that already happens and she's really unpopular anyway. I used to be her friend when she didn't and when she did have nits but I didn't break up with her because of them but because of how she's been treating me instead.

Reply 9

Purple

18

Has someone spoken to her one on one about the headlice? It seems like you have been telling her in public so obviously she would get embarrassed? Or you could always ask her parents to sort it out and buy her the treatment, it cant be that expensive children get headlice all the time.

Reply 10

Talya

16

Anonymous

I don't have to do that because that already happens and she's really unpopular anyway. I used to be her friend when she didn't and when she did have nits but I didn't break up with her because of them but because of how she's been treating me instead.

Get the parents to make a huge fuss then, then the school HAS to do something. Your school must have a PTA (and if it doesn't, make one expressly for this purpose!)

Parents have every right to want their kids to be in a nit-free environment

Reply 11

Anonymous #1

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kirstinx

Has someone spoken to her one on one about the headlice? It seems like you have been telling her in public so obviously she would get embarrassed? Or you could always ask her parents to sort it out and buy her the treatment, it cant be that expensive children get headlice all the time.

I have told her privately when I was her friend and other ppl have too. She wont listen to anyone- not even her friends! Her parents don't care and the treatment isn't that expensive and she can afford it but she wont do it.

Reply 12

Anonymous #1

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Talya

Get the parents to make a huge fuss then, then the school HAS to do something. Your school must have a PTA (and if it doesn't, make one expressly for this purpose!)

Parents have every right to want their kids to be in a nit-free environment

My parents don't want to get involved with the school because they feel that the school should sort it out and deal with it. :rolleyes:

It's mad because loads of ppl have complained but nothing ever gets done about it!

Reply 13

Anonymous #2

i had headlice at 10 and 14. it was terrible. it doest show a lack of hygiene. nits only occupy CLEAN hair. because of over use of the chemicals (like when whole families use it just in case) nits have developed resistance. they won't budge. overuse of chemicals can cause brain damage. to add to this my hair is naturally veyr thick so i couldnt just comb them out. i tried every kind of therapy - chemical, oils, aromatherpay natural **** - and nothing worked. when i was 10 i had to have my hair which was way past my shoulders cut completely off so that i looked like a boy and was bullied for over a yaer. the second time i was so upset because i did not want to have my hair cut off again so i refused to do so. i would cut my own hair by thinning it out as much as possible and cutting it quite short but not totally off then trying a bunch of different treatments over months and months. nothing worked. i had them for about 2 years and then for some reason they disappeared. i guess they just died out naturally.
you havent thought about how this is affecting her at all - youre very selfish.

Reply 14

Anonymous #1

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Anonymous

i had headlice at 10 and 14. it was terrible. it doest show a lack of hygiene. nits only occupy CLEAN hair. because of over use of the chemicals (like when whole families use it just in case) nits have developed resistance. they won't budge. overuse of chemicals can cause brain damage. to add to this my hair is naturally veyr thick so i couldnt just comb them out. i tried every kind of therapy - chemical, oils, aromatherpay natural **** - and nothing worked. when i was 10 i had to have my hair which was way past my shoulders cut completely off so that i looked like a boy and was bullied for over a yaer. the second time i was so upset because i did not want to have my hair cut off again so i refused to do so. i would cut my own hair by thinning it out as much as possible and cutting it quite short but not totally off then trying a bunch of different treatments over months and months. nothing worked. i had them for about 2 years and then for some reason they disappeared. i guess they just died out naturally.
you havent thought about how this is affecting her at all - youre very selfish.

I have actually, many a time. I don't know how she puts up with it. And she doesn't try and do as much as you do to get rid of them- she does nothing! Plus, I know about the clean hair thing but I can't see how her hair is clean because she told me that she hardly ever feels the need to wash it and when she does she only uses water, no products. I can see that she doesn't want to use products because that would mean putting her hands in her hair. I'm not the one with the problem- she is. She's the one that's being very selfish. She doesn't care about herself, which is obvious as I have met and known her for 12years unlike you, and she doesn't care for anyone else either. Therefore she's the one that's being incredibly selfish. I'm fed up of it as are lots of other ppl. I don't see why we should all suffer because she or anyone else wont sort it out.

Reply 15

*starry_eyed_*

14

this reminds me of the girl i sat next to in ICT last year..I could actually see them crawling around in her her hair, it was so hard to not look when she was trying to talk to me!

Reply 16

Lucky_8

8

I know that nits develop resistence to chemical products and stuff, but not to those nit combs and those electric nit combs. Maybe buy her one and hand it to her?

Reply 17

Angelicx1x

1

baby oil is meant to allow you to comb the nits and headline out easily, and also means that the headlice cannot plant any more eggs onto the hair. Im not sure though, but its worth a try. Put it all over the hair, but concentrate at the back of the neck and behind the ears.
I also heard mayonaisse works to get rid of headlice :confused:

Reply 18

Juno

20

The thing is, the lotions and stuff don't work. She needs to comb every day with a nit comb and lots of conditioner on her hair. She muct do this for at least 2 weeks.

For the rest of you, if you use a tea tree oil conditioner it can prevent you getting them, as apparently they don't like that.

Reply 19

so_this_is_sam

3

Buy her the shampoo yourself !!!!!

Getting someone to sort out their nits!

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