Lice in Israel

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  • January 29, 2017 8:21 pm at 8:21 pm #619118
    Lightbrite
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    Is it harder to get rid of lice in Israel than the US?

    January 29, 2017 9:20 pm at 9:20 pm #1212628
    Health
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    LB – Yes.

    January 29, 2017 9:25 pm at 9:25 pm #1212629
    WinnieThePooh
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    I’m afraid to know why you started this thread. Hoping it’s a follow-up to the Froggie thread.

    January 29, 2017 10:40 pm at 10:40 pm #1212630
    Lightbrite
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    WTP: Not a follow up to the Froggie thread, unfortunately.

    And it’s not my lice; however, I just learned that I missed coming back home with a head full of lice by a hair.

    I’m getting itchy just thinking about it.

    Health: Why? Is it because of the climate? They’ve probably gone through enough mutations to resist regular treatments?

    January 30, 2017 7:06 am at 7:06 am #1212631
    WinnieThePooh
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    Schools in Israel are not allowed to send kids home if they are infested. So they can tell and beg mothers to check their kids’ heads, but can’t enforce a clean head policy. So that means that those mothers who do care have to regularly check and comb their kids’ hair to avoid infestations. If knits or bugs are found, a few very thorough combings with a fine tooth comb and lots of conditioner does the trick, without need of poisons and chemicals, which often don’t work 100% anyway.

    In American, I know schools where they check heads in school and send infested kids home and do not let them back in until they are clean, so spreading infestations is less common.

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