When Your Children Have Head Lice: Lice Removal Requires Patience And Vigilance
When you learn that your child has head lice, you have to stay calm. Head lice is common, and is no indication about how clean your child is or how often they bathe. Most children get head lice at some point in their lives, and it's important to know how to remove the lice from your child's head to ensure that they are no longer infested. In addition, you will have to take special precautions to clean all bedding in your child's room, wash all hats and jackets, and basically scrub their entire room to make sure there are no lice nits waiting to infest your child's head once again.
If Your Child Has Long Hair
When your child has really short hair, you can get your child a buzz cut to remove the majority, if not all of the head lice. If your child has long hair, the process is much more difficult. You will need to carefully comb out your child's hair, removing all nits with a fine toothed comb. While washing your child's hair in a lice removal shampoo will kill and remove most of the nits, this is not going to remove all of the eggs that may be left behind after the shampooing. You will have to spend time combing your child's hair very carefully to make sure there are no signs of lice left.
Wash Everything Your Child Comes in Contact With
Lice and their eggs can live on bedding, stuffed animals, and anything that is basically in your child's room. You will need to carefully clean your child's room, and any common areas in your home. Spend time laundering everything that can be washed, and use a vacuum on every possible surface. Remember that if you leave behind any lice eggs, your child's head can get easily infested once again. This is how most outbreaks at school happen, as some people only remove the lice from their child's head without considering their environment as well.
Vigilance Will Help Keep Your Child Lice Free
If there are continual lice infestations at your child's school, check your child's head once a week to make sure that they remain lice free. If you see anything suspicious, take the time to comb it out of your child's hair. You can help reduce the number of lice infestations in your child's school if you do your part to keep your child's head lice free.
