The councilman of Health, Trini Cayuela, has reported a campaign called "lice out, lice away" launched by the City through its municipal department with the Department of Education to inform and warn of such parasites in schools children and schools to mark the start of the school year.
The aim of this campaign is to help children, parents and educators to better understand what is a louse, how to prevent infestations and what to do if they occur, explained the mayor, who said: "These insects are spread with great ease and its appearance is a recurring problem every year in schools and continue to spread alarm among parents and teachers. "
Through this campaign, the mayor noted that "we want to carry out a preventive and public health since the beginning of the course we have already identified that there are more lice and their arrival has occurred earlier than other years" .
Through this campaign, will be explained in the delivery of information material in schools how they can prevent head lice and what to do to remove them if a child is affected by the distribution of campaign information,
The mayor has stated "the idea that head lice do not only occur in marginal circles and spread among children with poor hygiene, but can appear on the scalp them more carefully and any person at any given time."
In this regard, reported the existence of products to kill lice and clean the heads of children, both of these insects and their offspring, nits, because "when the lice nesting in the head, the remedy for combat is to use specific lotions and shampoos and use the nit comb to drag. "
Among a number of councils, said that "it is always advisable to wash children's hair with a lice shampoo, because that creates a resistance that makes the product ineffective when you really need the insects."
