Report: Contradictory advice (page 24 of 28)
Anyone searching for clear advice about head lice, and how best to get rid of them, soon discovers there’s very little common ground on which the experts agree.
One look at the differences between the advice given to parents in the UK and US illustrates the point:
US schools regularly send children with nits home until they can prove that they’re no longer infected. Parents are advised to thoroughly vacuum the house, hot-wash clothes, and put their child’s comfort toys in a plastic bag for two weeks.
And treatments containing lindane are widely available.
In the UK, schools are told not to check children for head lice, not to send alert letters, and definitely not to exclude them.
They are also told that lice can’t be caught from anything other than "close and persistent contact". So there’s no point in cleaning carpets, toys, hats, sheets, etc.
And lindane was banned some years ago.
