''Scabies case found in Schenectady public housing:" No one should be surprised. Many of the 'scabie people' are on the dole, welfare, section 8, the entitlement demographic. Welfare is not providing enough soap & water. Potato chips & soda taste better.



As a child I was told a funny story. Every Saturday night the children of Watervliet got their hair brushed out at home over brown paper. Head lice! The lice came for the most part from newly arrived 'immigrant' children in school. The head lice would jump from kid to kid in school. Public welfare was minimal in the good old days & people had dirty habits carried over from generations of poverty. Today there is no excuse. Soap & water is ready available & then there is WELFARE.



The American standard for common sense, common decency & clean living is devolving as I write. Today we cannot 'blame' the immigrants, we can only blame ourselves.



As a first generation American I came from a family of limited resources. We did not have public handouts, SSI, generous immigration policies & the nanny state. In my Irish grandmothers house, if you did not hang your clothes up, they were thrown into he street. Everything in it's place, neat & clean. You could eat off the floors of my Polish grandmother's house. Soap, water & elbow grease. No fancy chemicals, the civil authority spraying or WELFARE. The concept of basic hygiene & picking up after yourself has been discarded. The bugs have replaced good practices.



During the Spanish Flu Epidemic the City Of Watervliet would post your house, that was provided by public health authority. Loaf's of bread were thrown from trucks during The Great Depression, all this without rivers of entitlement. YET homes were kept clean.



Sometimes less is best. In America we have too much given to too many people who have gotten so lazy they do not pick up their garbage. That is America today, a big landfill that is overflowing with scabies & lice. Enjoy!

After reading Ira's posts, I've decided the only thing left is to put a bullet in my temple...........................adios

Back in the day....no one in Schonowee every had to put their children's head over brown paper...until today....never knew  what



brown paper was used for...yipes.......agree Alias..

Ira
It is a myth that headlice come from dirty hair, infact headlice prefer clean hair.

Also headlice do not jump.

As for scabies I contacted them while a nurses aide at Hallmark. As an aide I washed my hands many many times during the day stil got them.

Headlice is pretty much a given when kids are in elementary school, nothing to be ashamed of, its the tales of old that made kids feel dirty or ashamed.

What is important is how headlice are treated. Children have very porous scalps so many of the prescription and over the counter insecticides are readily absorbed  into childrens scalps which in turn gets into the blood supply. Some children are more sucseptable to chemicals/pesticides and have ended up with seizures and life long neuro issues.

Parents need not freak when they get the "dreaded" headlice letter. Just buy a good metal lice comb, and go through your child's head section by section. May take some time but far better than applying unneccesary and in most cases ineffective treatments as lice have become resistant to most treatments.

One of the debates going on with school nurses is whether to let kids stay in school with lice/nits or send them home. The Academy of Pediatrics and School Nurses Association feels children should be allowed to stay in school and that the other children's parents need not be notified.

I think this is wrong as that's how lice keep spreading and chlldren are repeatedly sent home for treatment.

Parents need to be proactive, just once a month or so look through your child's hair with a lice comb and  IF there are any remove them, no big deal.

Forgot to add that the main problem regarding bugs at ALL Municipal Housing units is cockroaches. Have spoken to some employees who have to go into apartments that have supposedly been sprayed repeatedly and they find hundreds of live roaches still inhabiting the apartments.

Lincoln Heights is also shameful.....never been cleaned up the way it should be.....their septic system is something to be desired....

spend some money on both municipal living bldgs......instead of lining the pockets with Adm