How to remove head lice and nits – by Michelle Quick
School is back in full swing and so are a lot of other thingshomework, teacher notes, viruses, cold and head lice.
Those two words that every parent dreads hearingand sometimes psychosomatically induces itching when heardare unfortunately a reality for more parents of school-age children than many realize. As such, the month of September was National Head Lice Prevent Month and schools across the United States took part in an “All Out Comb Out” campaign to detect early and rid students of head lice. But don’t worry if you missed the festivitieshead lice is a year-round problem.
It is extremely rare to find a community where head lice does not exist. Head lice infestations seem to cross all demographic and socioeconomic barriers, particularly in children. This is because children tend to participate more in close activities with other children. They play closely together with a lot of physical contact. Additionally, they spend the night at each other’s houses, attend camp outs and other overnight trips together and they openly show affection by hugging, thus making it easier for the lice, who do not jump or fly, to travel from head to head.
Although head lice are typically thought of and treated as a hygiene issues, just because a child incurs an infestation doesn’t mean that he has poor hygiene. According to www.kidshealth.org, lice aren’t dangerous and don’t spread disease. But they are parasitic and need human blood to survive, thus the human head is where they thrive, attaching their eggs to the hair shafts close to the scalp.
Some parents experience successful prevention of infestation by using many hair products on their child’s hair. But this is no guarantee that a louse won’t make its way onto your child. Most reputable medical websites state that parents should regularly check their child’s head as a part of regular grooming and if lice or nits are found, they should be treated promptly.
In the past, many schools have had a “no-nit” policy which means that if a child is found to have nits, they must be sent home from school to be treated, whether or not live adult lice are found. Many schools across the country have abolished this policy based on the recommendations of The American Academy of Pediatrics (www.aap.org), the National Association of School Nurses (www.nasn.org/positions/nitfre e.htm), and the Centers for Disease Control (www.cdc.org). These organizations discourage such “no-nit” policies because head lice are not harmful, dismissing children
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