Lice at camp

[MrsWampthang]

Just have a question. I had to go get my son from the very expensive camp he went to a day and a half early because the found lice in his hair. Supposedly they kept him up until three in the morning the night before washing his hair three times with Rid. Their reason for sending him home was that two other boys in the cabin came up with the lice which they also treated, but they didn't send these boys home because they didn't have as bad a case. As camp nurses, what is your policy on finding lice on kids?

Thanks,

Pam

[Justhere, BSN, RN]

Had my daughters teacher call me one day from school saying "We checked L****** for head lice because she has been scratching all morning and saying itchy, we didn't find any nits or lice. But she does have red bumps all through her hair. I had to explain that she had gotten into a bed of seed ticks that weekend. But after that everytime my daughter's head itched she would blurt out very loudly "mama I got lice." It didn't matter where we where, mostly she would blurt this out in public like at Wal-Mart, then she would start scratching her head. After about the fifth time she did this in public and me explaining to her just because her head itched didn't mean she had lice after each incident, I finially just had to tell her you say that one more time and I'm going to spank you. She finially stopped obsessing about lice. Now she is into snakes, my husband had to tell her he ran over a copper head with the lawn mower, now before she goes outside she ask me do you think the copperheads are out.