Preventing Head Lice

There are lot of advice online on how to get rid of head lice but very little on how to prevent head lice.If you have spent days or weeks getting rid of them out of your child's hair, you certainly don't want them back.

Head lice don't jump, they crawl and that means heads must be in contact for the lice to spread. Young girls are particularly prone to catching them because their hair in often long and loose.

If your girl insists on growing her hair, then she must kept it tied back, with no little straggly pieces hanging around her face. Head lice like clean hair, they cannot move so easily on grease. Plaiting the hair often works and we have used a little hairspray, although I'm not sure whether it is good to use on very young children. We always use a lice comb at least twice a week, when the hair has been shampooed and conditioned, hopefully catching any louse that may have been picked up, before any eggs are laid. Head lice treatment