Prevention of head lice in kindergarten, actions for head lice

Head lice treatment

Removing lice can be quite problematic. Now there are many modern tools that are characterized by ease of use and high efficiency. The most common are:

• Hygia is a good pediculocidal agent, due to a positive therapeutic effect, but it cannot be used by children under 2 years of age.
• Nittifor is an effective drug in the form of a cream and is widely used for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes.
• Pedilin is a common anti-lice remedy, it is convenient to use, it has several forms of release - gel, emulsion and can be shown to children and adults.
• Spray Para plus is an irreplaceable medicine used for the treatment of underwear, bed linen, used for treatment, prevention.

In addition to modern drugs, hydrogen peroxide and table vinegar remain effective and widespread.

Means have a detrimental effect on parasites, contributing to their destruction, easy detachment from the hair. They are used, observing certain proportions, and kept on a covered head for about 20 minutes.

What to do on your own if lice are found? For such cases, there is a certain sequence of actions, it must be followed:

• Purchase one of the pediculocidal products according to the age of the child. He dispenses without a doctor's prescription.
• Read the instructions for use, carefully treat the child's head and hair.
• Thoroughly rinse the hair with shampoo for girls, boys can completely cut their hair.
• Treat hair lengthwise with vinegar, wrap with a towel, wait 5-10 minutes. Then rinse with water, comb out first with a rare, then with a frequent comb.
• Thoroughly wash all bedding and underwear of the child.
• Examine other family members carefully. If necessary, carry out the destruction of nits.
• Examine the child daily for parasites.
• An anti-lice remedy should be used after the expiration of a week for prophylaxis, until the lice disappear.
• Report the infection to school or kindergarten so that they disinfect, check other children.

If you follow these recommendations, you can eliminate the parasites yourself at home. The main thing is to detect nits and eggs in time.

Lice in a child: the first reaction

Not all parents are able to maintain composure at the sight of parasites on the head of their own child. Disgust, confusion, even panic as the first reaction to head lice are not uncommon. I must say that such unpleasant emotions in many people are caused not only by lice, but also by cockroaches, spiders and other flying and crawling.

Disgust is a completely normal reaction to potential danger. In many ways, these are our instinctive fears, since a person keeps memory not only of the events of his life, but also of the dangers that humanity faced in the course of its history.

And since the bites of some insects are fatal, caution in front of them helped a person survive

Now people have learned to cope with many infections carried by insects, but the subconscious fear still remains. Education plays a significant role in this.The fact is that a small child treats the world around him, including insects, with curiosity and interest, a feeling of disgust is not at all peculiar to him. But only as long as he does not face the reaction of adults, which can subsequently gain a foothold in his subconscious.

Separately, it must be said about certain negative associations associated with lice (dirt, unsanitary conditions), which can also provoke such reactions. Meanwhile, children from quite prosperous families often suffer from head lice, which sometimes comes as a shock to their parents.

Prevention and treatment

Getting lice out is a serious problem, especially if the case is neglected. This is due to the fact that almost all funds are designed to destroy adult parasites, and only a few kill nits (the so-called larvae fixed in a cocoon on hairs). Medicines for head lice are considered the most effective, in contrast to traditional methods.

Comprehensive treatment is the only correct way to cope with lice. In addition to special shampoos and combs for lice, it is necessary to purchase detergents and disinfectants for personal belongings and hygiene items for the child. The most popular are:

• Hygia - pediculocidal shampoo. There are contraindications - age up to 2 years.
• Pedilin is a universal remedy. Available in gel, shampoo and emulsion form. It is allowed to use it for the treatment of pediculosis.
• Nittifor is a gel used for the prevention and extermination of parasites.
• Para Plus Spray is a prophylactic preparation for the treatment of bed and underwear.

In addition to medicines, folk methods are often used, including the treatment of hair and scalp with vinegar or hydrogen peroxide.

Processing is carried out in several stages. This is done in order to minimize the reappearance of nits from insects. It is recommended to comb the eggs daily with a fine comb (most often it comes with shampoo). The main condition for the success of the treatment is the detection and combing out of all larvae.

Bed linen and clothes are washed with a pediculicide preparation or boiled. Heat treatment with an iron is possible. It is believed that it is enough to remove the things with which the child was in contact for several days. The fact is that lice outside the human body can live a little more than a day, and the larvae can live much longer.

Provoking factors and the development of pathology

The louse is a small arthropod parasite that moves quickly and cannot fly. Its length reaches 5 mm, and its life cycle is about 40 days. Settling on human skin, lice feed on blood, lay eggs (nits) in the hair or clothing of their owner.

Various types of lice can live on animals - monkeys, horses, dogs, pigs. Three types of lice are dangerous to humans:

• pediculus humanus capitis (head);
• phthirus pubis (wardrobe);
• humanus vestimenti (pubic).

Lice live only on the owner, they quickly switch from the body to clothes, underwear and hygiene items, but in need of food, they quickly find a new owner, lay their eggs in the ear or occipital zone of the head (from five per day). The larvae also feed on blood. The appearance of lice causes severe itching and a local burning sensation. By constantly combing the bite sites, secondary inflammatory processes can be provoked.

The incubation period varies. In most cases, the parasite enters the hair or skin when it is mature, immediately beginning to feed on blood, causing severe irritation. In rare cases, the onset of the disease may be latent for the first 14 days.

Carriers of lice or, otherwise, suffering from head lice, are contagious. The main methods of infection are contact and household (through household items, clothing, bedding).In large crowded groups, lice spread quickly. This applies primarily to children's groups - summer camps, kindergartens, boarding schools, schools, sports sections.

The opinion that lice is a feature of asocial strata of society and underdeveloped societies has long been refuted. This disease affects adults and, more often, children, including those in quite prosperous families and social circles.

There are factors contributing to the spread of head lice. Lice protection will be more effective if you know these conditions and be extremely careful when they are present. The following risk factors can be distinguished:

1. Favorable periods for outbreaks of head lice are wars, resettlement, social conflicts, when the level of public sanitation and personal hygiene decreases.
2. Lice spread easily in places where hygienic conditions are not sufficiently observed - infrequent change of linen, lack of processing of upholstered furniture, outerwear lead to infection.
3. Pediculosis is not a seasonal disease - you can get sick with it at any time of the year.
4. Although lice do not live long without a person, they are able to wait for a new owner for up to several days in the folds of linen or clothes, the eggs of nits are stored in things and withstand heat treatment.
5. The louse prefers clean skin and hair, which makes it easier to drink blood. Hair styling and coloring chemicals can repel it.
6. The thinner and softer the skin, the more attractive it is to lice. Therefore, children are more likely to become infected with lice than adults.
7. The louse is almost impossible to see - it is practically invisible in the hairline. The main symptom of the disease is nits - insect eggs, firmly attached to the hair or pile of clothing. They do not change position when the hair moves, they are whitish or yellowish in color.

Useful tips for parents about this ailment

Parents should remember that hygiene is the main prevention of head lice. The kid should regularly take a bath, comb, cut his hair. Clothes, shoes and bedding should always be washed and ironed. It is also necessary to clean the apartment regularly.

It is important to teach your baby not to take other people's things, especially a comb or a hat. Also, a small student or kindergartner should know that personal belongings, as well as hygiene items, should not be given to other children.

Unfortunately, hygiene will not save a baby from contracting this disease. A little fidget in a day contacts dozens of people, rides on public transport, goes for a walk, attends kindergarten or school, while it is very difficult to understand where the lice came from.

If the baby is still ill, do not be ashamed, panic or hide this fact from others. You need to immediately notify everyone who has been in contact with your child over the past few days, and be sure to notify the school teacher or kindergarten teacher.

There is no need to worry too much about this, especially since you should not scold the baby for the fact that he is sick with head lice. There is nothing shameful in this - the little fidget is absolutely innocent of anything.

The mother's worries will only upset the baby, he will feel guilty and unhappy. It is better to calmly and as simply as possible explain to your child what is happening to him, to warn him that he should stay at home for some time, to tell about how the treatment will take place. This approach will help to avoid tears and tantrums, and the entire treatment process will be quick and easy.

You can cope with lice by buying a special tool at the pharmacy. This can be shampoo, ointment, lotion, or aerosol. Most of the tools are very simple to use, just follow the instructions.

Bed linen, clothes, pillows and other household items will need to be disinfected.

Parents do not have to wait for a routine check-up. You can examine your daughter or son yourself.It is advisable to do this every week. You should especially carefully examine the area of ​​the head, behind the ears and on the back of the head.

Boys need to get their hair trimmed regularly, girls do better with braids or tails. Braided hair will allow you to quickly examine your baby's scalp.

Parents should remember that the sooner pediculosis is revealed in their daughter or son, the fewer children will become infected later. This issue must be approached seriously, taking care not only of the health of your child, but also of the health of other children.

Causes of head lice in children

There are many opinions about the nature of the occurrence of lice on the hair and the human body. Among them are chronic diseases, poor hygiene and even stress. However, the main and practically the only reason is direct infection. Lice can only be transmitted from someone, but in no case do they appear out of nowhere on their own, lice do not appear from stress, nerves or hepatitis.

Pediculosis can be contracted through any contact with an infected person, or through a thing with which he has recently been in contact.

It is believed that lice, like fleas, can jump and move from person to person, jumping over their heads. This is not true. Infection can occur through contact. Often, infections occur in movie theaters, fitting rooms, or on public transport.

Kindergarten and other institutions are the most favorable places. With a large crowd of children, the risk increases significantly.

It is worth remembering that head lice is not a dirty head disease. Adult parasites thrive on clean skin.

Why does head lice infestation occur? General information:

• Pediculosis can be contracted in absolutely "unexpected" places, namely everywhere: in a shopping center, in a theater, in the subway, on a playground, in a taxi, on a school bus, at school and in kindergarten, in a children's camp, in a gym and at sporting events.
• Lice do not choose sick, poor and disadvantaged people, the louse lives on any head, regardless of the property status and status of its owner.
• Head lice is not something shameful that should be hidden, head lice is a common disease that needs to be treated, but not in a single infected person, but in all people with whom the infected person has had contact.
• There is no effective lice prevention strategy.
• There is no statistics confirming that people who neglect personal hygiene are more likely to get sick than clean people.
• To treat head lice with folk remedies: combing out nits, vinegar, dust, essential oil, kerosene, lavender water, cranberries, homeopathy is useless, irresponsible and in some cases dangerous.
• Lice do not die and do not leave their homes, neither in the sea, nor in the sun, nor after taking vitamins. Pediculosis is not treated by "boosting immunity."
• The only effective strategy in the event of an illness or obtaining information about a disease of a person with whom you have had or continue to contact (a family member, colleague, a child from the collective in which your child is engaged) is to treat all members with pharmacy products twice with a break of 7 days families, notifying everyone who has come into contact with an infected person, daily examinations and monitoring within two months from the moment of illness.
• It is impossible to cure your child without notifying the administration of the school, kindergarten or other collective in which the child is engaged, and without achieving coordinated actions of all families of all children with whom the child contacts.
• Due to ignorance of parents, shame, lack of an agreed strategy of all team members in relation to head lice in the vast majority of children's institutions, lice are never transferred.
• In kindergartens and schools, it is necessary to act in concert: synchronously treat all children and teachers twice with a break of 7 days, sanitize the school / kindergarten, in cars and a school bus with hot steam, inspect all family members at home daily.
• You do not need to enter a head lice quarantine.

Important! Lice are not a shame, lice are a big problem if you keep quiet about it and do not solve it! You can get rid of head lice in the children's team only together

Duration of quarantine

If the child has lice at home, then the parents should immediately inform the preschool about the incident and stay at home. If head lice was discovered by the kindergarten staff, then the teacher is obliged to notify the parents of this and completely isolate the child from other students in the group, while trying not to scare him or ruin his mood.

After that, the health worker conducts an unscheduled examination of all the pupils of the group, disinfects the premises. From this moment on, quarantine is announced. There is a regulated procedure in this case:

1. The teacher is obliged to inform the parents about the detection of head lice, observing confidentiality (the name of the infected child is not announced).
2. The management of the preschool educational institution informs the TsGSES at the place of registration of the child. If there are several cases in the group, then the information is sent to the assigned polyclinic with a statement about the focus of head lice.
3. Parents are being instructed.
4. The institution is being quarantined for a period of 30 days.

During quarantine, disinfection measures are carried out at the preschool educational institution, including daily examination of inmates and employees for problems. A sick child can visit the institution only upon the provision of a certificate of admission from a polyclinic or SES.

How are school and kindergarten head lice tests carried out?

For a kindergarten, pediculosis is a common disease. Not all parents are properly informed about the prevention of this disease.

Lice infestation is often due to poor personal hygiene. It is far from immediately possible to identify this fact, which means that the baby will continue to attend kindergarten, thereby infecting other children with lice. Therefore, examination for head lice in preschool institutions should be carried out regularly - once a week. The procedure must be carried out by a medical professional.

If lice are found, it is necessary to urgently take a set of measures to prevent further infection:

• Children with this disease need to be urgently isolated.
• It is necessary to find the source of infection.
• Within a month, regularly examine all children who have come into contact with an infected child.
• Inform the clinic for which the kindergartner infected with head lice is assigned.
• Disinfect all rooms, inspect toys, wardrobes, bed linen, as well as other items of mass use.
• Advise parents about the prevention of this ailment.
• Do not allow an infected toddler to attend kindergarten without a certificate from the hospital confirming his recovery.

As for schools, it is necessary to inspect here 4 times a year (after the holidays) or additionally (optionally) if necessary. If a student has this disease, he is suspended from classes until a certificate of recovery is brought.

If a baby becomes a kindergartener or a schoolboy for the first time, he must undergo a medical examination. If lice are detected, the medical board will not allow visiting these institutions until complete recovery.

Prevention of head lice in kindergarten

Unfortunately, in preschool educational institutions, lice are not a rare phenomenon, and the reasons for this usually lie in the lack of parental awareness of the effective prevention of head lice.In accordance with sanitary regulations, kindergarten medical personnel are required to examine each child upon admission, and then conduct weekly checks on all children for the presence of lice. It is not difficult to identify head lice in children by examining the scalp in a room with good lighting. For examinations, healthcare professionals may use a fine comb and magnifying glass. After each inspection, items must be disinfected with an alcohol solution.

It is very important that the leaders of the kindergarten are responsible for the problem and do not accept infected children into the institution. If cases of morbidity are detected in an institution, the following measures should be taken without fail:

• isolation of infected children;
• search for the main source of infection;
• examination of all children who may have been in contact with an infected child (several times during the month);
• inform the clinic for which the infected child is assigned - this is necessary to ensure the necessary sanitization of the patient and the examination of his family members;
• perform wet cleaning and disinfection;
• check the sanitary and hygienic condition of all group rooms of the kindergarten, as well as wardrobes for clothes and toys;
• counseling parents on the prevention of head lice at home;
• after sanitation, children may be admitted back to kindergarten only if there is a medical certificate confirming the absence of head lice.

Information for parents

Lice in children

The reasons for head lice are parental inattention, negligence of medical personnel, lack of information in the child, careless lifestyle.

Parents should have a head exam every week in daylight. It is recommended to view using a magnifying glass or loupe. Children should be told about where the lice come from, the rules of behavior in public places. Do not change things, hats, use your own hairbrushes.

For the prevention of lice, professional preparations with the presence of insecticides are not used. These funds do not have a deterrent effect. Essential oils provide protection. A few drops of tea tree essential oil are added to the shampoo. It is recommended to wash your hair every other day during the epidemic, once a week to prevent infection.

If head lice is found in the kindergarten, the management does not respond to the problem properly, the parents have the right to write a complaint to the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service. The relevant authorities will take action. The check is carried out every week. The duration of the quarantine is regulated by the SES. The management acts in accordance with the order.

How to withdraw?

If parasites are found in a child, parents need to take timely measures to eliminate them. The main thing is not to panic, be patient and calm.

Diagnosis of head lice is usually straightforward, but you can consult a doctor to establish an accurate diagnosis and prescribe treatment.

To remove lice and nits, mechanical and chemical methods are used. Pharmacies offer a wide selection of repellents to quickly get rid of parasites. You can use Paranit shampoo, spray or lotion. It contains a complex of mineral oils, it is non-toxic and absolutely harmless to the skin and respiratory system.

Hellebore water is also used to treat head lice. It is used in combination with combing out with a special comb and in compliance with safety measures due to toxicity.

Everyone living in the house should be carefully examined and, if found, appropriate treatment measures should be taken. Such examinations should be carried out weekly until complete recovery.

It is imperative to organize the washing of the personal belongings of the infected person and the bed linen of the whole family.Hats, combs, hairpins and towels need careful processing.

In case of independent detection of lice in their child, parents are obliged to inform the school paramedic or class teacher about this. There is no point in hiding and hushing up the infection in such a situation, this can lead to the further spread of head lice among school students.

Employees of the educational institution, in turn, must take measures to prevent the growth of the disease.

Where to go with this problem

What to do if a child begins to complain of an itchy scalp, where to go? There are special institutions that deal with this issue - these are sanitary epidemiological services.

They check all children's institutions - schools, kindergartens, identifying infected children. According to state sanitary rules, when visiting the kindergarten, it is prohibited to admit persons who have lice.

If, as a result of the examination, parasites were found in the child, this is reported to the parents. They are informed about the means of destroying lice, the rules of treatment, and are given exemption from classes.

Caregivers and teachers are required to inform all parents about the detection of lice in a child, but they must maintain confidentiality and not give his name. The administration of the institution is also obliged to notify the inter-district, district TSGSES at the place of residence of the child.

When head lice has been cured, they conduct a second examination, before visiting gardens, schools, children who do not have nits, adults are allowed.

When these manipulations are not carried out, you can complain to the SES.

“The SES and the director must treat the entire school from the attic to the basement with chemistry! Manually!"

SES is no longer there. There is a successor to this organization - Rospotrebnadzor, which makes sure that schools carry out "anti-pediculosis measures." But this does not mean that the building should be taken apart brick by brick. Here is what is said on this topic in the decree of the Chief Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation dated 06/07/2017 (in Appendix No. 2): “In the center of head lice, the treatment of furniture, walls, floor, and clothing is not required. Mats in sports halls of schools are subject to processing ”.

And only if body lice were found, and not head lice (they often live on homeless people, and are very rarely brought into school), serious sanitation is required. The above decree says: “When detecting body lice, anti-lice measures are carried out in the hearth, as well as in places where people and their clothes are examined, rooms (floor, chairs, couches, doorknobs and other items) with pediculicidal agents.

How do parents imagine this? Are all classes standing in a long line on the street, while one (maximum two) nurses at the school door rummages in the head of another student? This "control at the entrance" will take several hours. But a nurse can stand at the door of the class (if several cases of head lice are registered there). She is obliged several times (at intervals) to make sure that new generations of insects have not appeared in the class.

Carrying out inspections

Inspection for head lice is subject to:

• children attending preschool educational organizations - monthly;
• students of general education and professional educational organizations - 4 times a year;
• boarding school students, children living in orphanages, orphanages - in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation;
• children going on vacation to health organizations - before departure;
• children in a children's health organization - weekly;
• patients admitted for inpatient treatment - upon admission and then every 7 days;
• outpatients - upon treatment;
• employees of organizations - during medical examination and preventive examinations;
• some other categories of persons.

Important

Upon admission of children to a preschool educational organization, an examination for head lice is carried out.If sick children are identified, they are sent for rehabilitation with disqualification from attending kindergarten. Reception of children after sanitation is allowed if there is a medical certificate of the absence of head lice (clause 13.5 of SanPiN 3.2.3215-14).

Students are suspended from school attendance during treatment. They can be admitted to general educational organizations only after the completion of a complex of treatment and prophylactic measures with a confirmation certificate from a doctor (clause 13.6 of SanPiN 3.2.3215-14).

The medical worker must give parents recommendations on the treatment of children with pediculicidal agents at home and the sanitization of the room, things and bedding (clause 3.11 of Appendix 4 to the order of the Ministry of Health of Russia No. 342 dated November 26, 1998 “On strengthening measures to prevent epidemic typhus and fight against head lice "; hereinafter - Order No. 342).

Preventive actions

The issue of combating lice and lice treatment is on the agenda of every children's institution. After all, you can catch lice even if you follow the rules of personal hygiene. Therefore, the Ministry of Health has developed a special order on head lice in educational organizations, according to which it is prohibited to take children infected with lice and nits to kindergartens.

For examination honey. the employee must use a special comb with fine teeth, which is subsequently disinfected without fail. Only regular examination of children for head lice in kindergarten will help prevent the spread of the disease. According to the decree of the sanitary and epidemiological service, it should be carried out monthly. The data is recorded in the head lice examination log.

Information about head lice should be provided to the attention of parents at specially organized parenting meetings. There is also an instruction on head lice for educators and teachers. It contains information about the preventive rules that contribute to the prevention of the disease.

Every employee of a child care institution with a medical education should be aware of what to do if there is head lice in the kindergarten. The nurse's actions for head lice should be carried out in the following order:

1. Having found lice in a child, the nurse is obliged to isolate him, informing the parents and the administration of the preschool educational institution.
2. It is imperative to examine children who have had contact with an infected child.
3. Recommend to parents a program of preventive measures at home.
4. Disinfection of the premises is mandatory, including the processing of bed linen, which provide for quarantine measures in the preschool educational institution.
5. The duration of the head lice quarantine is 30 days.
6. A child who has had head lice is allowed to attend kindergarten after visiting the clinic, as evidenced by a specialist certificate.

Information for educators

Instructions for pediculosis for educators provide for the observance of elementary rules. Children should be clean and tidy. It is not allowed to be admitted to the group if the appearance does not meet these requirements.

Educators should make sure that children do not change things, hairpins, hats, use only their own accessories, and sleep in their beds.

Information about head lice should be communicated to parents at every parent meeting. If an infected child is found, an unscheduled meeting is held, information is brought to the attention. Parents should carefully examine the heads of their children, carry out preventive treatment for lice.

Effective drugs for children against lice

Preventive measures in schools

Lice in school, as well as in kindergarten, are quite common. To avoid mass infection of children, the following rules must be observed:

• Students should be examined regularly by a medical professional 4 times throughout the year.
• If head lice has been identified, the medical worker must inform the administration about this, convey to certain organs - the child must be isolated from other students.
• The rooms are thoroughly disinfected, a quarantine is declared, after treatment, the child is allowed before classes after a medical examination.

Chemistry treatment of school rooms in case of finding children with lice
The main periods of regular examinations are considered - after the summer holidays, for first graders. The occurrence of an infection leads to an unscheduled examination.

In addition to the general rules of lice infestation, there is the prevention of head lice at school, it is covered by parents for their children. It consists of simple recommendations, helps to avoid infection in the course of study:

• It is necessary to explain to the child that you cannot give your personal things, exchange them with other children, since the chance of infection increases significantly.
• It is also forbidden to give hats, as well as elastic bands, hairpins to anyone, because when one child has a sewn-in head, with such items the parasites will pass to the rest.

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Signs of head lice

It is quite easy to detect such a disease, it is characterized by vivid symptoms, expressed as follows:

• The appearance of red spots, which then become ulcers.
• Severe itching is considered the main symptom, moreover, combing the hairline contributes to the rapid spread of lice throughout the hair.
• Some places, namely behind the ears, on the back of the head, are characterized by the appearance of scaly plaques.
• Along the entire length of the hair, small white grains are located - these are eggs that attach to the hair, after a while they can become adults.

Lice eggs on a human head
With lice, you can also see gray dots, cuts, which indicate the places of the parasite bite - skin, hair, as well as crawling, jumping insects.

Therefore, when children have these symptoms, especially if he attends school or kindergarten, it is necessary to examine the head of all family members every day, observe hygiene rules, and consult a doctor.

What the problem looks like - symptoms and signs

You may not even be aware of head lice.

However, the most common manifestations include:

1. Itching. Scalp, neck and ear itching are the most common signs. It is an allergic reaction to lice saliva. With the initial infection, itching may not occur for up to six weeks.
2. Lice on the scalp. Lice can be spotted, but this is difficult as they are small, avoid bright light, and move quickly.
3. Lice eggs on the hair shaft. Eggs with nits are difficult to spot as they are extremely small. They are easiest to see behind the ears and along the hairline on the neck. Empty eggs are easier to spot as they are lighter in color and farther from the scalp. However, the presence of nits does not always indicate an active infection.

See your doctor before starting treatment if you suspect you or your child has head lice. Studies have shown that many children began treating head lice with various treatments when they did not have an active infection. What does head lice look like, not everyone knows, so they often take for the eggs of lice:

• dead or empty eggs from previous infections;
• dandruff;
• leftovers and pieces of hair;
• fragments of dead tissue on the hair shaft;
• Exfoliated skin, dirt, and other debris
• other small insects.

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What happens in practice

Lice in children

In fact, the problem of head lice is entirely shifted to the shoulders of the parents, who must fight lice on their own. Having discovered directly in their child or having learned from other parents that lice have appeared at school, every adult should first take measures to eliminate them and try to protect their student from possible infection from other students in the class.

The sequence of actions for the destruction of head lice (memo for parents):

• buy a lice remedy at a pharmacy;
• process the head and hair of the child according to the instructions of this product;
• wash your hair thoroughly with ordinary shampoo; for boys, a haircut "under zero" is possible in emergency situations;
• mechanically comb out dead insects and nits, for which they often use a special comb and a vinegar solution, then rinse the hair with water;
• wash all personal belongings and bed linen of all family members;
• inspect other living in the house and, if found, take measures to remove lice;
• inform the nurse about the situation at the school, after which the staff of the educational institution must carry out a set of anti-lice measures;
• carry out several examinations every week and, if found, repeat the treatment of your child and the whole family until the insects and their eggs are completely destroyed.

Precautions Memo

What should parents do to reduce the risk of infection in their children?

1. First of all, from an early age, children must be taught to personal hygiene.
2. It is very important to explain to your child that you cannot use other people's combs, hairpins or hats.
3. If the child has head lice, itching or other symptoms, be sure to tell the parents to examine the scalp.
4. If there is a sick child in the children's team, parents should, for prevention, wash the child's head with one of the remedies for lice and nits. The product must be applied every 2 weeks.
   It is during this period of time that adult insects develop from nits. And such prevention will prevent the appearance of lice, since adult insects cannot appear from the nits.
5. Girls are required to braid if they have long hair.
6. To avoid re-infection, it is necessary to wash the bed linen, treat the pillow, blanket and mattress with linen parasite detergent.
7. For prophylaxis, tar soap, Biosim or Nix can be used.
8. It is imperative to examine the hair of children who were vacationing in a camp or sanatorium.
   If a child has head lice, it is strictly forbidden for him to visit child care facilities.

Informing other parents and the school

However, since head lice is a contagious disease that spreads quickly enough, it is, of course, important to inform the parents of other children with whom your son or daughter has been in contact. This will help prevent the spread of the disease, as well as possible re-infection of your own child.

But, as a rule, parents try to avoid such conversations, fearing an inadequate reaction. Shame, fear of condemnation and possible ridicule of the child ... There are reasons for this. Unfortunately, many hold deeply mistaken views of the disease. The main thing in this situation is to understand that timely information delivered to others will help to protect not only them, but also yourself, because no one is immune from re-infection!

Since the problem is not new, it is highly likely that the parents of your child's classmates have already dealt with it and therefore will be sympathetic to your message. And if not, then you can act as a kind of expert and share your experience of treatment, for which your parents will only thank you.

Be sure to inform the class teacher that your child has head lice. And it is better to do this in a personal conversation to make sure that the teacher understood everything correctly.Ask the class teacher to inform the nurse and parents of all children, emphasizing anonymity. Rest assured, the school is no less interested in keeping its walls free of head lice. And the key to a successful fight against the spread of head lice is the coordinated actions of parents and school.

Lice symptoms

Parents should clearly understand that head lice is a common disease. It does not carry any intimate factors. Infection of a child with head lice in a kindergarten group is quite common. This is due to the large concentration of people in a confined space. The main methods of infection:

• Contact: lice are transmitted by close interaction from child to child during games, activities.
• When sharing personal items: Children love to exchange wardrobe items, including hats, and using common hygiene products such as combs, towels can carry lice and nits.
• Shared bedding: Contact with other people's bedding during quiet hours can also lead to infection with parasites.

Children's head lice, as a rule, is a massive disease. If one child is infected, there is a good chance that almost the entire group will be infected.

Pediculosis is quite easy to identify. Symptoms are pronounced:

• severe itching of the skin in the area of ​​\ u200b \ u200bthe hairline;
• the appearance of characteristic spots from insect bites, often ulcers (children comb the bite site);
• the presence of adult parasites;
• on the hair, mainly at the roots at a distance of 1 cm from the skin, oval grains - nits (eggs);
• flaky lesions may appear (behind the ears, on the back of the head).

If symptoms occur, it is necessary to pick up the child from kindergarten as soon as possible, buy a product and carry out treatment, as well as disinfect personal belongings.

Reasons for infection

Even one child infected with lice poses a serious danger to the entire group in kindergarten. There are several reasons for head lice. The main ways lice are transmitted:

• direct contact - hugging, playing together, or touching the head;
• the exchange of things, hats, as well as hair care items (combs, hairpins, hoops or rubber bands) facilitates the transfer of lice and their eggs to the child's clean head;
• common bed - quite often during quiet hours, children can toss and turn, lying on someone else's bed.

Signs of head lice in children

It can take up to several weeks from the moment of direct contact with the source of infection until the first clinical signs of the disease appear in the child. As a rule, diseases can be recognized by their characteristic symptoms:

• itching at the sites of lice bites;
• rash on the skin, red spots on the scalp covered with hair;
• scratching at the sites of parasite bites;
• the presence of nits in the hair - in most cases they can be seen with the naked eye or when using a magnifying glass.

If it was not possible to save the child from lice, the first thing to do is to isolate him from the team, that is, for a while, stop attending classes at school and kindergarten. Treatment must be carried out very, very carefully and only after consulting a doctor, and after recovery, special attention should be paid to the prevention of head lice in order to prevent re-infection. You should know: at home, you can carry out the prevention of head lice on your own, using shampoos and means for the prevention of lice, as well as observing a number of hygienic rules. In general educational institutions, the prevention of disease should be dealt with by medical workers

In educational institutions, the prevention of disease should be dealt with by medical workers.

We fight lice with folk methods

Best suited for this purpose:

• weak vinegar solution;
• dust soap;
• cranberry juice;
• a mixture of kerosene and vegetable oil;
• hellebore water;
• oxygen peroxide;
• decoction of needles, tansy and wormwood;
• a mixture of kerosene and laundry soap;
• vodka or alcohol.

If the child is a year old, what to do? Can lice hurt a lot? The easiest and most radical way to combat these parasites is a zero haircut.

Kerosene also works well, but this substance should be used with extreme caution. As you can see for yourself, there are many ways to get rid of lice from a child.

What to do at home is up to you.

Means of struggle

Measures to combat head lice are the use of antiparasitic drugs, the development of which is designed to destroy lice and their eggs (nits). One of the most effective remedies is a spray: it can be used both for the treatment of head lice and for prophylactic purposes. The composition of the product includes insecticidal components that have a detrimental effect on lice.

The solution is sprayed over the entire length of the hair. After that, the child's head is covered with a plastic cap or bag and left in this state for the time specified in the description (its duration depends on the brand of the product). Then the hair is washed using a daily shampoo, and the dead lice and nits are removed from the hair using a special comb.

Pediculicidal shampoo is the safest remedy that is often used for preventive purposes. To protect themselves from the epidemic of head lice, it is enough for them to regularly wash their hair not only for the child, but also for all family members.

Useful tips on what to do if head lice in the kindergarten are presented in this video.

Lice therapy

Measures to combat head lice include the use of professional drugs for parasites. Many products are sold in pharmacies. You can fight lice with preparations in the form of shampoo, spray, ointment, lotion, emulsion. Parents have the right to independently choose a remedy for lice, based on the individual characteristics of the child's body, age.

Effective drugs for children against lice:

After treating the hair with any means, it is necessary to comb out the dead lice and nits. They are combed out with a special comb, which is often included with the head lice remedy. The procedure for combing out lice and nits should be repeated daily. After 14 days, it is recommended to repeat the treatment to consolidate the result.

Sanitization of the apartment is recommended. The house needs a general cleaning. Wash bedding, iron with steam iron. All family members need to treat head lice.

Talking with a child

How to behave when you find lice in a child? What should you pay special attention to in a conversation with him? First of all, you need to prepare in advance for a delicate conversation: read articles about head lice, talk with other parents who have already encountered such a situation

This is important so that we, as adults, can feel calm and confident when speaking with a child.

Remember that our emotional state can be passed on to the child, intensify his feelings. You should not whip up a mystery like “Don't tell anyone about this!”, As this will only cause the child to feel ashamed and guilty. It is best to discuss general information in a way that is appropriate for the child's age. Tell him what the lice are, where they come from, how the infestation occurs and what to do if they appear.

It is important to emphasize that anyone can face this problem, and there is nothing terrible, and even more so shameful in this. This conversation will help you cope with negative feelings.

However, it will not be superfluous to remind the child about the elementary rules that will help to exclude possible infection. It's time to repeat once again: "You can't take someone else's hairbrush, you don't need to change hats!"

At the same time, head lice is not at all a reason to prohibit or limit the child's communication with other children.

And it doesn't matter if he himself is the carrier of this disease or it was found in his friends.In fact, there is nothing terrible in head lice, and you need to tell the child about this.

Especially if such a situation has arisen for the first time. This disease is not life threatening, and health, by and large, too. It is easy to diagnose and not difficult to treat. And children are children. They are active, spend a lot of time in games, in close contact with each other, and we cannot and should not deprive them of the joy of communication. It will only be correct to carefully monitor your children and periodically examine them for lice in order to detect the disease in time.