LICE TIPS

If you are like many parents, you may be minding your own business when you notice your child scratching his head. A light bulb goes off and you go and check to see if you see any unwanted signs of head lice. Right there in front of your face, you see a bug crawl out of the hair. After you have recovered from a heart attack, you run to get the clippers or scissors to shave or cut your child’s hair. Before you do that you check your daughter and she has it also! What is a busy parent to do? Shaving or cutting your child’s hair may be overkill and can produce lasting trauma in some children. Before you grab the razor, read below to find out more about short hair and buzz cuts and the impact, or lack of impact, they have on head lice.

While sports can be a wonderful activity for kids, it does come with the downside of increasing the risk of lice transmission. If your child is on a sports team currently experiencing a lice outbreak, or if you just want to be cautious so as to keep him or her from getting head lice, this information is for you.

Schaumberg School District The district no longer has a “no nit” lice policy. Children with lice will be allowed to remain in school until the end of the day. They are expected to be treated at home and if so they may return to school the next day. School personnel will handle the situation privately and with discretion.

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Naperville School District 203 Based on current guidelines, Naperville schools no longer exclude from school students with nits. “Pediculosis, or head lice, is considered a nuisance, not a disease, by communicable disease experts and agencies such as the Will and DuPage County Health Departments, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

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This district does not have a “no nit” policy. If a child has head lice, he or she will not be prevented from attending school. “What if my child has head lice?? If suspected, the School Nurse will exam a student and notify the parent/guardian of head lice if it has been identified. Students may be released from school at the discretion of the parent/guardian. Education and information will be provided for the treatment and prevention of head lice to parent/guardians. Students will not be excluded from school due to head lice. The Illinois Dept.

Let’s face it: finding head lice in your child is never fun and there is never an optimal time. Quincy mom, Carly, had the unfortunate experience of finding head lice two days before her daughter's birthday party. Here is her story: Carly is the mom of two young daughters. She considers herself very organized and is a “big planner”. Her daughter's birthday was coming up and she had everything ready to go. Two days before the party a bug climbed out of her daughter’s hair, thereby threatening to upend her carefully orchestrated plans. Her words describe this scene better than ours could.

Quincy Public Schools Quincy schools have adopted a nuanced lice policy to protect the privacy of individual students. They have dropped the “no nit” policy. “Quincy Public Schools Guidelines to Head Lice Management The Guidelines to Head Lice Management in the Quincy Public Schools have been updated to reflect the position statement and standard practice of the National Association of School Nurses, the American School Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the Harvard School of Public Health.