Promote Camp Fun and Prevent Head Lice – Here Is How

It’s almost summer time, and when school ends, summer camp begins!

Like school, summer camp is an opportunity for kids to learn, have fun, and interact with each other—it is also for lice to wreak its havoc on everyone involved!

Kids in close quarters, doing various outdoorsy activities and generally spending a lot of close contact time with each other—it’s a recipe for widespread lice infestation.

Most likely, in no time at all, you’ll be getting the dreaded “lice call” from your child’s summer camp.

Summer Camps Make it Easy for Lice

The thing about summer camp is that it involves so many activities that very gladly help the spread of a lice infestation. Of course, these are all key elements of summer camp. Things like team building games, ice breaking activities, and other group events make it easy for head to head contact that encourage the spread of lice.

There’s a lot of sharing of items involved as well, which is a great no-no when it comes to a lice outbreak. Combs, hats, helmets, towels, and bedding—all of these items are shared among kids attending summer camp, and making lice a tough problem to deal with.

Taking the Necessary Measures

Summer camps can be an important aspect of a child’s learning beyond the school walls, so it’s up to the coordinators and camp counselors to bring the much needed lice preventive measures in place.

Regular lice screening is a must, and will make the prevention of a full blown outbreak amongst the children much more manageable.

In order to be able to screen for nits and lice, those employed at the camp must be informed on the subject.

They must be able to pick up symptoms of lice, and recognize what the pests look like, and be educated on the proper procedure of lice screening.

In the event of a head lice infestation, there should be a lice control policy in place, and perhaps preliminary treatment can be carried out as well.

For parents, it would be a relief to know that the summer camp they are sending their child to has the proper precautions in place for such a situation.

In the scenario that a child does come back home from summer camp with a head full of lice, you can avail the services of a lice removal company like ours.

At Lice Busters, we are committed to providing a family-friendly environment where children can feel comfortable being treated. Contact us at (800) 405-8201 to book your appointment—we even do in-home lice treatments!