Don’t worry, kids! Getting head lice is actually a sign that your hair’s clean, not filthy. Not that this is much comfort when you’re stuck at home with your head slathered in something that smells like toilet cleaner.
(I accept that lice treatments may have changed since my days as an infested child. Or perhaps my mum really was using toilet cleaner to teach me a lesson.)
Anyway, British parents are enlisting their mobile phones in the fight against head lice. A campaign called ‘Beat The Bugs’ is letting them sign up for text messages whenever there’s an infestation at their child’s school. They’re called ‘Outbreak Alerts’, which sounds very exciting. After a trial run in Northampton, 77% of parents said they were supportive of the idea.
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