Back-to-school is Prime Time for Lice

Lice is most common in kids between the ages of three and twelve.  That stat makes back-to-school prime time for lice to spread in classrooms.

Pharmacist Hamp Russell helps people with lice at City Drugs in Montgomery.

“Lice is a parasite,” he explains, “It lives on the scalp or eyebrows or things of that nature, it has to have nourishment within 24 hours or it’ll die.”

Hamp says that lice are transmitted through close contact or sharing things like sheets or hats.

In Montgomery, a case of lice was found at Flowers Elementary School.  The school sent a letter to parents in the class with the case of lice encouraging them to routinely check their children’s scalps.

One parent we talked to did not receive the letter because her son is in a different class but she wishes all parents did.

“I think its just nice for everyone to know just to be on the safe side,” she shares, “so that everyone can be looking out for it.”

We reached out to Montgomery Public Schools for an interview about their protocol for lice cases but they declined.

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