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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here-  not angry just grossed out. Can't believe the kids don't have to go home and be checked before they can come back.  [/quote]

We were told that the official policy is that if a family self-reports, the child must be cleared by the school nurse before going back to school. Also that it would be helpful to bring the treatment we used to show the nurse. Lice was going around DD's class this fall. The school sent home flyers reminding parents to check their kids and saying that there had been cases of lice in DD's grade. When DD had lice, I shampooed and combed and then shampooed and combed again a week later per the instructions. Two weeks after the first case (after being clean for two weeks), she had them again, so I strongly suspect that the other parents were not checking/treating/reporting. I was told that DCPS cannot do any more than that. That even if there is a case reported in one class/grade, they couldn't proactively check the whole class. I understand not checking the whole school, but I think that not checking the class makes little sense. I don't think very highly of our school nurse, and strongly suspect that not checking is mostly him being lazy, rather than an official prohibition.[/quote]

The problem with the instructions going around is that you only need to shampoo and comb out twice. If there are some left over nits after the first week, they will hatch the second week. It's important to nit comb 3 days in a row, one week later, and then again on week two. OTC Shampoos do not work. Combing the hair and then keeping your child'a hair up or very cut short is key to prevention.[/quote]

I don't know why you think that the OTC shampoos do not work. I used them on my DD's straight blonde hair when I found live, adult lice crawling around. After the shampoo, they were not crawling and we combed them out with the metal comb. The shampoo works. It just doesn't work 100% and that's why combing is also necessary.[/quote]

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