Preventing Head Lice

Avoid head to head contact.
Don't share brushes, combs, hats and other items that come into contact with hair.
Discourage children from playing with each others' hair.
Tie long hair back or plait it.
Brush hair regularly.
Check the hair of everyone in the family at least once a week.
Take action if a child is scratching unusually - check their head carefully.

Managing the condition is equally important.
Although your child may have been treated, hair should still be combed & checked for lice on a regular basis. If left too long, your child may unknowingly be infected or, at worst infect someone else....(and we don't want that now, do we!)

Treatment

Ideally, once head lice are detected in a school, the whole school community should take action at the same time and over a period of weeks. One untreated head in a community can ensure an outbreak continues for months.

Treatment must be thorough, regular and carried out over a period of weeks by everyone. Even so, such treatment will not prevent a re-infestation originating from another community. Head lice are always lapping up the luxuries of a new human host.

Effective treatment doesn’t have to be expensive. A combination of methods is likely to be most successful.

Dry combing

This method is for removal of head lice and eggs.

Use a metal fine-toothed comb. The National Pediculosis Association in the United States recommends combs that have individually tooled rounded teeth that are evenly spaced and set in a plastic handle.
Finger nails can effectively remove eggs.

Some combs will extract adult head lice only and leave the eggs; the closer together the teeth of the comb are, the more successful combing will be.

Wet combing

This method, using any kind of hair conditioner, is for detection and removal of head lice and eggs. It is recommended that this treatment be repeated on alternate days for three weeks. The idea is to smother the head lice with conditioner, preventing them moving away, and to allow manual removal.

Apply enough conditioner (much more than usual) on dry hair to thoroughly cover the whole scalp and all the hair from the roots to the tips.
Keep the conditioner in the hair. Conditioner stuns the insects for about 20 minutes.
Comb the hair straight and get knots out with an ordinary comb.
Use a fine-toothed comb to systematically comb the hair. Comb the full length of each hair.
Wipe the comb with a clean tissue after each stroke of the comb.
After thorough combing and inspection, wash the conditioner out.

DON’T HAVE TIME?

These days most parents are both working and don’t have time to make sure their children’s heads are lice-free by regular checking, until they either notice their children scratching or are alerted by the school.

While Dad and Mom are at work, finding the time (or person) to tediously remove and treat the infestation maybe another time consuming problem. Not anymore! Let us help you.
We Are Angels with a Mission to Clean-up our Community -
One Head At a Time!