Experts warn on the infestation of lice in camps summer.
August is the month in which more pediculicides dispense.
-pediatricians recommend reporting the policy of the camp with respect to the treatment and prevention of head lice
Madrid, August of 2011- children’s summer camps could become a focus of infestation of lice is dragged until the beginning of the school year, as he warns Pediculosis information center. August is made, the month more pediculicides products provided in the pharmacy.
Lice can affect both adults and children, but it is between 3 and 11 years old when cases occur, about 6%, due to their habits of game. Summer camps the children spend too much time together playing and sleeping and tend to share hats, towels, pillows and even clamps for hair, in the case of girls. The risk of infection is high if preventive measures are not taken ”, warns Dr. Aurora war, President of the society of Dermatology of the autonomous community of Madrid and member of the center of Pediculosis information.
The revision of the heads of children with a liendrera has proved to be a more effective method that mere visual observation to detect these insects, says Dr. war. If they are lice should be treated with shampoos and lotions pediculicides on sale in pharmacies. Garments with which the person concerned has been in contact should wash more than 50 degrees and children and adults in the environment should be treated with a protective product, which repela lice and not be unpleasant for children, because that influences the adherence ”, adds.
for his part, Dr. José Luis Bonal, President of the Spanish society of Pediatric Extrahospitalaria and primary care (SEPEAP), warns parents that if their child has lice or is in an environment with lice report on the policy of the camp on the pediculosis and which is not alarmed. Do not need to take his son’s camp, that own monitors can treat children infested with pediculicides (except for allergies to the components of the products to be used) and to protect the rest without any ”.
Pediculosis information centre is an initiative of the SEPEAP in collaboration with Filvit, which has a web of information and consultations.