How is lice spread
Posted on July 21, 2013 by john in Daily health tips for kids
Prevention is the most effective way to prevent the spread and the spread of head lice in children. Listed below are some guidelines for parents to prevent lice in children.
Once a week should review the child’s head, especially on school days. With the help of a nit comb or nit comb, or right hand explores the neck area and behind the ears. If you know that there are lice in school, it would be appropriate to review the child’s head two or three times a week.
You also need to see if the child scratches frequently brush the hair daily and keep it clean. In the pharmacies there are some preventive products (not to be confused with lice treatments) that can be used in case the child is not infested, but exposed to contagion.
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How is lice spread
At school it is recommended that girls or boys with long hair are collected hair in a ponytail or a bun. So we avoid, in any way, contact with the hair of other children.
In case of infection have to check the scalp of the whole family and the therapy lice infested heads only.
We should not apply lice treatments preventive as the indiscriminate use of these products creates resistance to parasites and children may become insensitive to treatment. Also misuse of treatments can cause irritation of the child’s scalp and produce some toxic substances that absorb.
The treatment solves the problem in the short term, but we must ensure that the infestation has been eradicated after a week or ten days. And above all we must be aware that any future treatment prevents infections so we must always be alert to the possible occurrence of lice.
