Do you treet your child like an animal?
I was intrigued to read in the SMH today the following headline:
Parents told not to treat children with pet products
This article was written after a child had become ill from an animal flea/tick treatment being used on him to get rid of head lice. Part of me is outraged that this even deserves article status as frankly i think the warning on the label should be enough for all to see and realise that they shouldn’t use these things on humans. However another part of me sides with the parents as given my experience with my sister and head-lice they properly used everything available on the market for human treatment and thought that the animal super strength stuff was the logical next step.
The fact is that head-lice are becoming immune to all these sissy herbal treatments that smell like orange or even the chemical ones which smell like poo (funny thing is that the poo smelling ones do smell nicer then the ones that are meant to smell like orange). I still remember literally skipping the country just to get away from my sisters hair, which even after hourly treatments of well EVERYTHING my parents could find was still teaming with nits (AKA Head lice), in-fact my mother remembers driving her to the chemist, by that time her head was a moving blob of black little things that bite, and once there cleared them out of everything. My mum was literally out of ideas and was about to shave my poor sisters head just to get rid of them.
In conclusion had my mother seen a packet of animal flea/tic product i am positive that she would have taken the risk, as it would have meant she didn’t need to wash the bed sheets 10 times a day and my sister 24 times a day.
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