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Article: INVASION OF THE SUPERNITS; Nit-free: Beckie Dacosta with daughter Jessica, nine, who had head lice for six years.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 11, 2007
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Byline: ANGUS WATSON
FOR YEARS, Beckie Dacosta viewed the end of the school day with a senseof trepidation.
Despite regular treatment, her daughter Jessica suffered almost constantly withhead lice, and was being picked on at school because of it.
'She used to come home looking so sad,' says Beckie. 'The other children calledher Nit Girl, and wouldn't play with her.' 'As she came through the door shewould shy away from me because she didn't want me dragging a comb through herhair againit was awful,' says Beckie, a 32-year-old care home manager from Bognor Regis.
For six years, Jessica, now nine, was infested with lice. 'I wasn't ...