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And so the war continues. If you’ve been reading MG for a while, you’ll remember that last year, right around this time, my daughter came home from school with a lice…
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by Leslie Morgan Steiner (Mommy Track'd - Two Cents on Working Motherhood)
Two of the smartest women I know – one a Harvard-educated pediatrician, the other a Yale-educated Manhattan realtor – told me last year they were starting their own business.
They have seven kids and two jobs between them. So I thought they were crazy.
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A mom gives the advice she wishes she'd received when her 7-year-old daughter got lice.
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By Rebecca Wolsk
Step #1: Head(s) first.Following the advice of basically everyone—our pediatrician, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the CDC, and the Harvard School of Public Health—we put our heads before housecleaning.
We began our rampage with nontoxic Cetaphil cleanser (our pediatrician's preference), using the method outlined at Nuvo for Head Lice. This didn't work for us (aaack!), so we used over-the-counter, FDA-approved pediculicides. The products killed the lice, but their eggs, a.k.a. nits, are infuriatingly hardy. We treated again about a week later (product guidelines vary slightly) to zap hatchlings.
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If you have a child in school, chances are he or she will get lice at some point or another. You can...
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