Ladywell Nursery School and Inveralmond Early Years Centre

Just a wee reminder that it is a good idea to regularly check your child’s hair for head lice.

NHS Scotland suggest the best method is wet combing once a week as you wash your child’s hair.

1. Shampoo the hair, rinse, apply lots of conditioner and use a wide tooth comb to untangle and straighten the hair.
2. Once the tangles have gone, comb the hair  using a fine toothed detection comb(available from a pharmacy) from root to end. Comb one section of the hair at a time paying particular attention to the back of the neck and the area around the ears.
3. Check the comb for lice between each stroke and remove them.
4. When the whole head of hair has been combed through and checked rinse off the conditioner.

If live lice are found arrange treatment.

A Bug Buster Kit may be available from the Minor Ailments Service, ask your pharmacist.

Further information on head lice can be found at

www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/skin-hair-and-nails/head-lice -and-nits