When Theories about Lice are Lies

When we are still young it is unavoidable to not hear many famous urban legends in the country. All those legendary numbers we avoid in elevators or those days that should never coincide with 13. We all have at least 5 or more recollection of the most popular urban legends and hearsays that many Americans feared to hear and experience. In spite of the fact that we know urban legends have no concrete scientific bases and the knowledge we got from school, we still comply with the thinking and dwelling on the fear that in the first place should not be there.

Time recently got a featured story that was a case in which the issues are about children and how the school administrators treat a particular occurrence as something like an episode we want to see in Myth Busters. The paradox here is that the theory about lice that supposedly had been firstly eschewed by the academe is the same issue that they advocate under wrongful conclusions. What makes the parents more concerned is not how the school administrations' see the problem as a natural event but its baseless fears on the unproven and doubtful theories about lice.

As soon as the medical people in medical scrubs finally released a clinical report about head lice, many parents have been revitalized of their hope of bringing their kids to school without any fear of having them forced back home or grounded by the school for the mere reason that their children have head lice. A Head louse is not a disease and cannot be considered as such but still many schools are very critical on their ruling on grounding a student from school until lice are completely eliminated.

"We are trying to take a firmer position against the no-nits policy because it makes no medical sense and was never shown to be effective," says Dr. Barbara Frankowski to a Time interview, a pediatrician at Vermont Children's Hospital and past chair of the AAP's Council on School Health, which authored the new report.

Many parents found a supporter in the image of the pediatricians in lobbying down to tore the long due "no nits" policy implemented by many schools. But pediatricians also shun the idea of holding responsible the school in the spread of lice thus schools have the sole responsibility on getting rid of them. The main fact according to these experts in medical scrubs is that, these head lice were passed on from frequent sleepovers and summer camps which are not essentially sponsored by schools.

For the next school opening, school officials as well as the parents are hearten to take steps on knowing the right way to get rid of lice. And on the part of the school administrators, policies should be based from factual evidence and as much as possible a medical proof in order not to confuse parents and students. And on the parents' part, it is advisable that they visit their favored pediatrician in order to solve the problem of head lice on their children.