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Scalp Care

Pediculosis capitis[1] (also known as head lice infestation and cooties is a humanmedical condition caused by the colonization of the hair and skin by the parasitic insect Pediculus humanus capitis—the head louse.

How to Preventing and Avoiding Head Lice

Here's How:

1. Encourage your kids to avoid sharing things that have been on or near another child's head, including hairbrushes, combs, hats, scarves, towels, helmets,

pillows, sleeping bags, etc.2. Teach your kids to hang up their coat and hat on an individual hook, or some

other separate area, when they get to school, instead of just throwing them in apile with other classmates' clothing.

3. Regularly clean things that your child's head has direct contact with, such as car seats, pillows, head phones, etc., if you are sharing these items with other children.

4. Review some head lice pictures to help you understand what you are looking for in your child's hair, including live lice and nits (lice eggs).

5. Check your child for nits and live head lice at least once a week, keeping in mindthat although you may find head lice anywhere, they are often found at the backof your child's head, near his neck and behind his ears.

6. Recognize the symptoms of head lice, which include an itchy scalp and small redbumps or sores on the back of your child's neck and scalp. Don't panic, though, if your child must be treated for head lice.

Tips:

1. Be extra vigilant for head lice if there have been frequent reports of head lice atyour child's school or in your child's classroom.

2. Review the head lice preventing steps before and after sleepovers, school fieldtrips or when your child goes to camp.

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3. Wash your child's hair with a regular shampoo and hair conditioner and thencheck your child's hair after you rinse and dry it, but while it is still damp. The hair conditioner can make it easier to comb through your child's hair.

4. Remove all of the nits on your child's head when your child has lice, sincemissing some nits (lice eggs) is a common way for kids to have a persistentinfection, as lice keep hatching and keep the infestation going.

Right ways of washing the hand

Hand washing for hand hygiene is the act of cleansing the hands with or without theuse of water or another liquid, or with the use of soap, for the purpose of removing soil,dirt, and/or microorganisms.

The proper way in hand washing should use soap and under the running water.

Moreover, these steps are the correct techniques:

• Wet hands with water under a faucet or running water.

• Take enough liquid soap to the entire hand. It would be better if the soap containsantiseptic.

• Rub your palms together.

• Rub down to the fingertips.

• The palm of the hand rubbing the back of his left hand (or vice versa) with interlocking

fingers (cross) between right and left hands. Rub the sidelines of the finger. Do theopposite.

• Place the fingers back one with the back of the other fingers and interlock.

• Rub the right thumb with left palm with rotary motion. Do the same with the left thumb.

• Rub your palms with the back of the fingers of one hand with the movement forward,backward and turning. Do the opposite.

• Hold your right wrist with his left hand and do the twist. Do the same for left hand.

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• Wash hands with soap from the water flow.

• Dry your hands using a tissue and when using the faucet, close the valves with atissue.

Drying hands with a tissue is better than using a common hand-drying machine in the

mall.

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