At 23:07 10/06/98 +0100, ADM wrote:
>Have seen three "urgent" appointments today for headlice, despite educating
parents and practice team about topical preparations/combing and contact
precautions. One family has children at two different schools, and was
informed by school nurse service that it's not a public health problem -
it's a parenting problem. I know that we GP's are supposed to tackle
parenting issues these days - but this seems a bit much.
>Any suggestions? What happened to "nit-nurses"?
>
Not seen anyone with headlice since we decided ( after reading GP UK ! ) to
stop issuing scripts for insecticides and just hand out leaflets re combing etc.
I know there's probably more of the little blighters around than ever - and
insecticide resistant too due to our prescribing in the past.
When I worked a few years ago in village India, head lice were a fact of
life, not a "health problem".
kids will always get lice, so live with it, no one ever died of head lice.
But if all else fails, there's always the health visitor ;-)
Gwen
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