plantfit 7,534 Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Back in the fifties when I were brung up we had to stay away from the kids from Sneinton because they had nits. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 It was always the other kids that had em? Remember the Nit Nurse? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,534 Posted January 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 I think sometimes she thought the little bu@@ers were in me tabs, she used to push me ead over that hard I thought it would snap off Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Our girl is now 15, and has not had problems for a couple of years. Before that it was a regular problem. The main cause of spread, were parents that did not tackle the problem and allowed their kids to mix with others. The other was the schools failing to acknowledge the problem and circulate warnings to parents. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dodie 51 Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 I can remember getting the dreaded brown envelope in the early 50's. Mum with the fine tooth comb and newspapers on the floor and that horrible smelling white lotion plastered on my head. No one to play with for days, it was like you had the plague. Luckily I never got another one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonab 1,644 Posted January 7, 2018 Report Share Posted January 7, 2018 In Ucknall, nits were called "dicks" and anyone with the misfortune of having them had to visit the dick nurse at the awful welfare clinic on Watnall Road. The nurse was Miss Pearson, a dragon of a woman with the bedside manner of Dracula's mother. It wasn't until some years later that "dick" was a singularly inappropriate term to use for nits. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted November 5, 2019 Report Share Posted November 5, 2019 Told today there is a new strain of head lice that’s resistant to shampoos & treatments, it’s left scientists scratching their heads 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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