JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — With students getting ready to go back to school in a few weeks, some questions are being asked on whether the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines regarding head lice are the right measures to be taken.
According to the CDC, if a student does get head lice, they do not need to be sent home early from school. However, when reaching out to counties in the Jacksonville area, it was found that most schools do send their kids home as soon as the lice is found.
"Typically, I want to say 400 treatments a month," said Jordan Lang who works at Fresh Heads Lice Removal Center in Jacksonville. Lang says that with school starting up, the number is bound to go up.
The current CDC guidelines that have been in place since 2010 do not recommend children who have head lice be sent home from school.
A response from St. Johns County stated “most districts across the state have continued the practice of sending a student home from school when found to have lice."
While Lang believes the kids should be sent home, she can understand why the CDC recommends this saying, “I can understand from the parent’s side of things because obviously being a parent it is harder to take off of work, harder to handle these things on your own. I can also understand from the school’s side as well because they do see it as a quote-on-quote sickness."
It is important to note that if you do get head lice, you do not have dirty hair: The knits can only live on clean hair. You can go to Fresh Head Lice Removal Treatment Center in Bartram Park to get the help you need.
