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module menu icon Preventing reinfection

Offer the following tips to customers: 

  • Tell close friends and family that head lice have been found so that they too can be checked
  • Children should avoid prolonged head-to-head contact with friends and should not share hairbrushes, hats, etc
  • Check the hair two to three days after treatment to be sure that it was successful
    and then carry out weekly detection combing 
  • Use preventative products (e.g. Lyclear Head Lice Repellent Spray, Vamousse Protective Shampoo, Vosene Kids Advanced Conditioning Defence Spray, Hedrin Protect and Go). These may be used during known head lice outbreaks or immediately after having successfully completed head lice treatment to help avoid reinfection.

Don't forget

Head lice treatments should not be used “just in case”. Only people who have an active infection – shown by the presence of live, moving lice or unhatched eggs attached to hairs close to the scalp – should be treated.

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