Funny you say this, I just watched the 30 Rock episode where Jack had bedbugs.Yes, I remember the whole class got it at some point. 1st grade? Second? I don't remember when.
I don't hear about lice as much these days but then again I don't have kids. On the other hand, I have heard a lot about bedbugs in the last 15 years and I don't remember hearing anything about them in the 80s-90s outside of "Don't let the bedbugs bite" when I was tucked in. Did they make some kind of resurgence or have they always been the same level of problem?
How do you even get bed bugs?Yes, I remember the whole class got it at some point. 1st grade? Second? I don't remember when.
I don't hear about lice as much these days but then again I don't have kids. On the other hand, I have heard a lot about bedbugs in the last 15 years and I don't remember hearing anything about them in the 80s-90s outside of "Don't let the bedbugs bite" when I was tucked in. Did they make some kind of resurgence or have they always been the same level of problem?
Yeah, this. There's a couple of outbreaks a year at my daughter's school, we've had to treat her a couple of times. It's actually way more effective the way they deal with it now as the email groups means they can alert all parents easily without trying to track down specific cases, what'sapp groups means parents share info quickly, and the stuff to deal with it is way more effective now too. I hated nits as a kid as the shampoo stank and wasn't that effective, but these days it's all odourless silicone treatments that effectively suffocate the lice and that they can't develop an immunity to. One overnight treatment, rinse/comb it out, then another 7 days later to catch any that hatched in the meantime, and job done.I thought it wasn't much of a thing when I was a kid, but now as a parent of young children let me tell you 100% kids in your class have had lice while you were in there. The kids just don't really talk about it while all the parents in the group whatsapps or other chat groups are sharing the different outbreaks. Luckily my two sons wear hair gel so they're immune.
Chicken pox meant oatmeal baths. How could you not have fun with that.Such an unpleasant experience. Right up there with chicken pox.
They can hitch rides in your suitcases if you load and unload them on an infected bed. Then if you do the same thing at your house your bed gets them. Always unload/load them away from a bed, and if possible keep dirty laundry in a plastic bag when travelling back to limit exposure possibilities