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La Quinta Inn - Head Lice
Overnight Stay With Unexpected Visitors! - Complaint
Review by kjgo on 2012-03-21
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HUTCHINS, TEXAS -- My son and I checked in at this hotel on February 24, 2012, for one night. The room appeared to be clean and well furnished and we had no issues. The following morning, I awoke to feeling "tingling" on my scalp. Thinking it was dry scalp, I showered and washed my hair. Not long afterwards, we checked out. A while later, I again felt tingling and itching, and it felt like little bugs crawling over my scalp. To my horror, I had head lice!
Driving home the 5 hours, I was extremely itchy and continued to feel something crawling. My son had slept on the other bed and was not affected, thankfully! I left feedback about the hotel on the travel site where I had booked the room. I had one message appear, asking for my contact number, since "the one I gave was not working." I responded back the same day with my phone number, which IS working. I also have an answering machine, but have not received a call nor a message from management at this establishment. Four weeks later, I am still fighting the infestation!!! I have had to wash bedding every night and have spent money buying OTC products to treat this without success. I am furious that I have not been able to get rid of them. My next step is a visit to the physician to get a prescription.
BEWARE OF THIS LOCATION!!!
Driving home the 5 hours, I was extremely itchy and continued to feel something crawling. My son had slept on the other bed and was not affected, thankfully! I left feedback about the hotel on the travel site where I had booked the room. I had one message appear, asking for my contact number, since "the one I gave was not working." I responded back the same day with my phone number, which IS working. I also have an answering machine, but have not received a call nor a message from management at this establishment. Four weeks later, I am still fighting the infestation!!! I have had to wash bedding every night and have spent money buying OTC products to treat this without success. I am furious that I have not been able to get rid of them. My next step is a visit to the physician to get a prescription.
BEWARE OF THIS LOCATION!!!
Comments:
Posted by justcuz on 2012-03-21:
It is very unlikely that you got head lice from staying at La Quinta.
Having a young child in elementary school means yearly education on lice, treatments, and preventative measures. You said you woke the next morning with tingling on your scalp and then a while later more tingling and itching and what felt like bugs crawling over your scalp. This is a good indicator that you had nits for a while and enough had hatched that you now were noticing the tingling and itching.
Try this - buy some Cetaphil skin cleanser, completely saturate your scalp and hair with it. Glob it on as thick and as much as possible. Cover your head with a shower cap and leave on over night. Wash out. They should be gone, but may need to do a 2nd 'treatment.' Studies show that OTC treatments are no longer as effective as they once were b/c the little critters have become resistant to the chemicals.
Good luck!
Having a young child in elementary school means yearly education on lice, treatments, and preventative measures. You said you woke the next morning with tingling on your scalp and then a while later more tingling and itching and what felt like bugs crawling over your scalp. This is a good indicator that you had nits for a while and enough had hatched that you now were noticing the tingling and itching.
Try this - buy some Cetaphil skin cleanser, completely saturate your scalp and hair with it. Glob it on as thick and as much as possible. Cover your head with a shower cap and leave on over night. Wash out. They should be gone, but may need to do a 2nd 'treatment.' Studies show that OTC treatments are no longer as effective as they once were b/c the little critters have become resistant to the chemicals.
Good luck!
Posted by clutzycook on 2012-03-21:
Just, Cetaphil really works? Cool, I'll keep that in mind for the day when baby C comes home with them.
Posted by justcuz on 2012-03-21:
Clutzy, I've been lucky and haven't had to deal with it personally, but one of my daughter's friends got head lice at the beginning of the school year and her mother said she found out about while doing a search online and tried it and it worked! I keep some on hand just in case now!
Posted by clutzycook on 2012-03-21:
When I was in nursing school, I shadowed a school nurse who had to do lice checks on some kids. That's when I found out that stuff like Rid no longer works. That's unfortunate because that's what my mom used on us when we got lice as kids.
Posted by Tezrien on 2012-03-21:
Best cure ever for lice is a freshly shaven scalp. :)
Posted by old fart on 2012-03-21:
I'll never get head lice..LOL
Posted by clutzycook on 2012-03-21:
Yeah, try telling that to an 8 year old girl Tezrien, LOL.
Posted by BigAl on 2012-03-22:
Do not forget to treat your car.
Posted by Sam on 2012-03-23:
Head lice do not survive for long off the head, you get lice primarily from head to head contact, you did not get lice from the hotel, if you found bugs in your hair you have head lice for a while, like weeks, not one day in a hotel
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