Administrative services A-Z

- Form: Notification form for head lice infestation
- Form: Parents' declaration of proper treatment.

Declaration by parents that treatment has been carried out correctly.

If you discover head lice infestation in your child, the community facility that your child regularly attends (e.g. daycare centers, schools or similar facilities) must be informed immediately.

The management of the community facility must inform the public health department immediately and provide details of the disease and personal details.

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 come together, head lice are transmitted quickly.

Children with head lice are not allowed to enter rooms of the community facility, use facilities of the community facility or take part in events of the community facility until there is no longer any risk of them spreading the lice.

A medical certificate is only required if a person has had repeated cases of lice within four weeks. This corresponds to the recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute.

You discover that your child has head lice.

• Parents' declaration of proper treatment.
• In the case of a single infestation, 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 an infestation of head lice in your child. If possible, also inform the parents of children with whom your child has a lot of contact.
• Treat your child with the medically prescribed products at the specified intervals.
• If there are no more lice or nits capable of reproducing on your child's head, he/she may return to the daycare center as usual.

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

Health authorities of the state of Brandenburg

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

• § 34 Absatz 1 und 5 Infektionsschutzgesetz (IfSG)

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

Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Altona District Office