LICE TIPS

Palm City and Stuart are both located in the Martin County School District, which does not allow children with lice to attend school until they are cleared by the school.

Schools in the Commack and Smithtown districts allow students into school once they have been checked for live lice by the school nurse.

Buffalo Grove and Northbrook schools follow the recommendations of the National Association of School Nurses and do not exclude children who exhibit no signs of live lice.

Here a lice technician tells of her earliest memory of getting head lice as a child. Her experience was not a pleasant one and she vowed to find a better way.

Schools in Bartlett and Millington do not hold to strict “no nit” policies. Students must be treated satisfactorily before returning to school.

Ogden schools allow students with lice to stay until the end of the day. At that point the child will be sent home and will not be readmitted to school until a lice treatment has been done.

Is it lice, or are you just paranoid? Learn the difference between head lice and phantom lice syndrome and how to get rid of lice paranoia for good.

Schools in the area of Conroe and Atascosita do not hold to strict “no nit” policies, instead they will only exclude children from attendance based on the presence of live lice.

Uptick in cases of head lice in Greensboro North Carolina. The Triad area of Greensboro North Carolina is seeing more cases of head lice than normal for this time of year, and WFMY News 2 gets answers from head lice experts at LiceDoctors. Here LiceDoctors owner lice professionals and Head Lice Technician Leigh Acosta shares their knowledge and expertise about head lice.

Schools in Mount Pleasant do not enforce a strict “no nit” policy. Students are not excluded from school if they have head lice.