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Lewisville Public Schools Lewisville public schools, which include students from Flower Mound, allow students to return to school as soon as they have been treated once for head lice. Children will not be prohibited from entering after treatment if there are only nits left in the hair. “Head lice is a HUGE nuisance but is not life threatening. It can affect all sorts of people and is time consuming to treat completely. LISD does have a protocol for lice.

Schools in Portsmouth, Virginia have a “no nit” lice policy, but are becoming more lenient with respect to allowing students with nits to return to school if they are being treated. The district sends kids home with live lice, but if they have nits that are not close to the scalp, occasionally, they are allowed to remain and are expected to be treated at home. The official policy is as stated, “Our school system enforces a "no nit" policy. No student will be allowed in schools as long as any evidence of head lice (adult lice or nits (eggs) remains in his/her hair.

Newport News schools maintain a “no nit” school lice policy. Students who have any signs of head lice, including eggs, will be sent home from school. They will be readmitted after they have been treated and there are no signs of nits.

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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