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Article: Weekly peek can combat head lice
- Article from:
- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2007
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It is time to go back to school - and as well as sharing lessons,
lunches and learning, plenty of pupils will also share head lice.
The way young children huddle together and touch heads enables
lice to spread easily, as the tiny creatures' only way of moving from
head to head is by crawling from one hair shaft to another - they
can't fly or jump.
Feeding on blood from the scalp, the lice will then breed rapidly
on a new head, reaching infestation proportions in just a few days if
they are not treated early.
But many parents don't know what they're looking for, or how to
best to treat it - and it's for this reason that a new campaign is
being launched.
The Once a Week Take a Peek initiative ...