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Hi, I'm Amelia, and I'm going to talk to you about how to deal with head lice. If your
child comes home with head lice, what you immediately need to do, is take all their
clothes off, take all their bedsheets, stuffed animals, everything, put them in plastic bags,
and take them to the nearest laundry mat and wash them in extremely hot water. And that
will kill the nits, and any eggs, and any of the lice itself. Then, you're going to
bring them home and get a lice kit and in it comes a lice comb. And you will shampoo
their hair with the lice shampoo several times, and then sometimes it comes with a spray.
You can use a spray. Then afterwards, you're actually going to comb through the hair, and
you've got to go through section by section, you're going to be taking about one eighths
inch sections, about like this, and you're going to be combing through to make sure that
you don't see any lice. Now, if you feel like your child does not have lice, you can do
this prior to going through and changing all the sheets and everything like that. But I
recommend just as a preventative measure just washing everything anyway. You do not have
to necessarily shave their head unless it's just a constantly recurring problem and you
can't get rid of it. And it usually tends to happen in very long hair. So, again, you're
just going to want to kind of comb through each section of the hair, making sure th at
you don't see anything. If you do, then you know you have to reapply the product. Also,
it is false that lice are attracted to dirty hair. Actually, lice are attracted to clean
hair. They don't like dirty environments. So, you know the little piggy kid in school
is probably not the one who brought the lice to school. So, follow the directions in the
lice repellent kit, and use your comb, hot water and bleach with all the stuffed animals,
and all the sheets, and you don't necessarily have to cut the hair, and that's how to deal
with head lice.