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SUMMARY:National Bug Busting Day
DESCRIPTION:National Bug Busting Days ( http://www.chc.org/homedir/bugbustingforschools.cfm#natdays ):\nYou can choose any date that suits your timetable for a school Bug Busting Day, but the most effective dates to take part are the National Bug Busting Days: 31 January, 15 June and 31 October, every year. Many schools across the country take part on these dates, and by synchronizing Bug Busting across the country you can help prevent lice from circulating from head to head and back again.\n\nOften cases are light and easily missed and remain contagious if the Bug Busting wet combing method is not used.\nParents must learn to check the efficacy of any treatment choice because none guarantees a complete cure.\n\nReal facts about head lice\n\nThe eggs of head lice usually take 7 to 10 days to hatch (recorded range 5 to 11 days). Live eggs and head lice are not easily spotted on the head, therefore the school nurse cannot solve the head louse problem for schools and parents.\nCombing dry or damp hair with a fine-tooth comb is not a reliableway to detect lice, and especially deceptive in short, straight hair, where you would think it would be easy.\nMetal combs are not suitable for louse detection because these combs are primarily nit combs. Lice caught between the tightly spaced teeth remain unnoticed against the metal and can be combed back into the hair unharmed at subsequent strokes.\nThere are no studies proving that wet head lice grasp hairs more tightly, thus hampering their removal with a fine-tooth comb.\nIt is not scientifically proven that head to head contact has to be prolonged to catch lice – close contact is enough.\nHead lice are a community problem About 20% of cases are amongst people over 16 or under 4 years old.\n\nA successful strategy for head louse control\nThe late Dr RJ Donaldson, affectionately known as Paddy, demonstrated in the 1970s that an intensive detection/treatment campaign can dramatically cut the prevalence of head lice. He was the tireless mentor of the Bug Busting Days organised by Community Hygiene Concern, taking a personal interest from 1986 in our development of wet methods of detection in preference to less effective dry or damp methods. Today Bug Busting Days are organised in partnership with the Department of Health.\n“Public education is, indeed, a most effective insecticide”  (Donaldson, 1979)\nThe goal must be informed self-care, co-ordinated by community health, schools and nurseries, given that head lice affect most families from the time the first child begins to socialise with other children.\nCommunity Hygiene Concern (CHC) is a non profit-making organisation set up in 1988 to help schools, community health services and parents cope successfully with head lice. Using action research techniques, we assess methods of detection and cure, working with families and schools. We disseminate information on best practice when we find evidence of effectiveness. We welcome independent evaluation of our findings. To date the only re-usable treatment for head lice, tested in independent clinical trials that have been reported in peer reviewed journals, is the Bug Buster Kit. Find out more ( http://www.chc.org/homedir/Nigelstrial.cfm )\nBy encouraging schools to participate in our schools’ programme, the Departments of Health and Education are helping to ensure that parents have access to authentic Bug Busting information.\n“Our experience is that complaints about head lice – which can be the first highest category of parent complaint – are reduced to a trickle by the school’s regular participation in Bug Busting Days, especially as the school’s catchment area is highly mobile (35% annual turnover)…The programme motivates pupils to take the message home. Having 27 ‘motivators’ – the average class size – makes all the difference.”\nPrimary school headteacher\n
URL:https://www.primarycareit.co.uk/events/national-bug-busting-day/
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