How common is lice outbreak in preschool?

[Anonymous]

I am just wondering about the cleanliness of the place. Does it happen in all preschools? Is it something to be expected?

[Anonymous]

Lice only spreads head to head. Cleanliness has nothing to do with it. Young kids play close together.so lice spreads easily. FYI, lice like clean hair, not dirty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am just wondering about the cleanliness of the place. Does it happen in all preschools? Is it something to be expected?

It plagued us from preschool up through the third or fourth grade. Nearly a constant battle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am just wondering about the cleanliness of the place. Does it happen in all preschools? Is it something to be expected?

It plagued us from preschool up through the third or fourth grade. Nearly a constant battle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am just wondering about the cleanliness of the place. Does it happen in all preschools? Is it something to be expected?

Pretty much any place where there's lots of kids, you're going to have lice. There will be outbreaks in elementary as well-- count on it.

[Anonymous]

Lice has nothing to do with cleanliness. Happens in all schools.

[Anonymous]

Everywhere. Start a regular combing routine.

[Anonymous]

I do think it matters what steps they take to keep it from spreading. At our preschool, they wash all the dress-up clothes, shampoo the rugs, make everyone take home hats and blankets for laundering, etc. Not sure if any of this matters, but so far (knock wood) we haven't gotten lice despite two notices of an affected child in the classroom. Fwiw, the teacher said it mostly starts with/comes from kids with older siblings in elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Lice is everywhere around here. It's crazy.

[Anonymous]

In my DD's three years at the same preschool they had only one or two lice outbreaks. Anecdotally, the director said they saw it more in the Pre-K classrooms where the kids were more likely to have older siblings who may have transmitted it from larger elementary schools and it ended up in preschool.

DD's best friend got it one year, we never did until she got to elementary school. Her school did lice checks daily on all kids once it was identified in the school, and took all the cleaning precautions regarding dress-up clothes, bagging kids blankets and jackets to keep them separate.

We always sent DD with her hair in pigtails or braids to lessen the likelihood.

[Anonymous]

Uncommon in our preschool but it was a very small school with small classes = less heads. FCPS K we got three letters home one year. Then it seemed like they stopped sending letters even though I heard about lice from other parents in the class.

[Anonymous]

Super common, and not related to cleanliness of the facility at all. They jump from head to head.

[Anonymous]

Happens everywhere. We use a spray daily that makes the lice less interested in the kids' hair. http://amzn.to/2aOySxg

[Anonymous]

My 3 year-old daughter just had it and our daycare reacted really quickly. She was kept away from the other kids in her classroom until i could get there. They sent home all the blankets etc for all of the kids, washed all of the surfaces and called an exterminator (although I'm not sure what he could do.) I got the prescription shampoo and also had her professionally de-liced because I have a terrible bug phobia. I still had to do a lot of combing, tho.

I thought my DD probably got it from another kid in her class, but turns out it was probably from her cousin. My sister just never told me that my niece had lice, even after the two played together for several days during a reunion. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

I think it happened twice in the three years my daughter was in preschool. She did not get it either time.