Head lice have been found amongst children in the school. Please check your child’s hair today.

If you do find head lice in your child’s hair, please notify the school to obtain information on the current recommended treatment.

Head lice most often affect children who are in direct contact with one another or who share personal items, such as brushes, hats or scarves. Symptoms include itching, visible lice on the scalp and lice eggs (nits) on the hair shafts. Medicated shampoos may often help, but lice are becoming increasingly resistant. Patiently combing and removing nits, sometimes over several days, is sometimes necessary.

Under Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services policy, your child is required to remain away from school until after the use of a recommended treatment and an attempt to remove all the lice eggs.

It is only necessary to treat if there is evidence of head lice.

Please help to stop the spread of further transmission.

Further information can be obtained from the school office or from the Swansea Pharmacy.