Head Lice Resources

headlice November 13th, 2007

A crucial detail that must be addressed when treating the bedroom when a child has lice, are the brushes, combs, and hair accessories of your lice infested child. You can clean your house, wash your linens and bag your toys, but obviously, in order to maintain the removal of lice with a lice shampoo and comb, hair accessories must be dealt with properly!

The first thing to do is to remove ALL items that you use in your child’s head, and bring them into a central place, such as the bathroom sink. Remember to include brushes or combs that may be stored for convenience in another location, such as a kitchen or bathroom drawer, or near a front hall mirror. Collect all such items from your home – even if they do not belong to the child with nits. Children often use their parents’ brushes and combs when it is convenient, so it is a good idea to clean every hair grooming item in the house – even the ones that may be off limits in your own bedroom. You want to make sure that every hair accessory in your home has been treated for nits.

Of course, the easiest thing to do with inexpensive items that have a lot of hair in them is to simply discard them. Put them in a plastic garbage bag, seal it with a knot, and put them in the trash. However, this is not always a practical solution.

Items of monetary or sentimental value, can be safely treated despite the lice and nit problem. It is not necessary to add additional anguish to a child by irreverently discarding their possessions during a lice infestation. Treating hair accessories for lice and nits must be done carefully and methodically. Again, it is not difficult or complicated. Once you know what to do, even these most personal and problematic items can be salvaged, with the assurance of having been successfully included in your home treatment of head lice.

(to be continued)

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