The first bell rang and you are afraid that along with the bag your child will bring home lice? Learn a myth and a truth so you don't worry for no reason.
Child sharing clothes and hair items is dangerous: True
The best way to avoid lice is to teach your child to avoid close contact with other children. This year especially, this is easier, as all the children are almost used to keeping their distance due to the corona virus. Also, he should not wear foreign jackets, scarves, ribbons, caps and headphones or let his classmates take his. You can check your child's head from time to time to make sure it is free of nits, as children do not get lice only at the beginning of the year.
If the child gets lice you should disinfect the whole house: Myth
Lice are primarily transmitted by direct head-to-head contact and require blood-sucking meals to survive. Their transmission through objects, although possible, should not worry you too much. Adult lice can survive for a while outside of the head, but newly hatched lice that need a good meal soon can't survive for long. This means you don't need to do a general disinfection at home if there is an incident with lice, although generally washing at 60 degrees is the best way to kill lice as well as viruses.
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