Leistungen A-Z

- Form: Head lice infestation notification form
- Form: Parent's statement of treatment properly administered.

Declaration of the parents about a properly carried out treatment.

If you discover head lice infestation in your child, the community facility that your child regularly attends (for example, day care centers, schools, or similar facilities) must be notified immediately.

The management of the community facility must immediately notify the health department and provide disease and personal information.

Head lice infestation is the most common parasitic disease in Europe. Anyone can get head lice. This is not due to a lack of hygiene. Especially in places where many children gather, head lice are transmitted quickly.

Children with head lice must not enter rooms of the community facility, must not use facilities of the community facility and must not participate in events of the community facility until a further spread of the lice by them is no longer to be feared.

A medical certificate is only required if a person has repeatedly had lice within four weeks. This is in accordance with the recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute.

You notice head lice infestation in your child.

• Declaration of the parents about a properly carried out treatment.
• In the case of a single infestation, a confirmation of proper treatment is sufficient for re-admission.

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• As a parent, inform the management of the community facility immediately in writing or verbally about a head lice infestation of your child. If possible, also inform the parents of the children with whom your child has a lot of contact.
• Treat your child with medically prescribed remedies at the intervals indicated.
• If there are no more lice or reproductive nits on your child's head, he or she may return to daycare as usual.

As soon as you, as a parent, discover that your child has head lice, you must immediately inform the facility that your child attends.

Health authorities of the state of Brandenburg

§§ 33 and 34 Infection Protection Act (IfSG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ifsg/__34.html

• § Section 34 (1) and (5) of the Infection Protection Act (IfSG)

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Head lice - what to do?
Federal Centre for Health Education
https://www.kindergesundheit-info.de/themen/krankes-kind/kopflaeuse/

Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Altona District Office