Head lice infestation in the school or daycare center Notification
Report head lice infestations in children immediately.
Description
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.
Online services
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Competent office
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Contact point
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Contact person
Unfortunately, no contact persons were found for District Verden (Lower Saxony). Please check the service description above for information on how to find the responsible contact person.
Forms
- Form: Notification form for head lice infestation
- Form: Parents' declaration of proper treatment.
Declaration by parents that treatment has been carried out correctly.
Prerequisites
You discover that your child has head lice.
Basis for legal action
§§ Sections 33 and 34 of the Infection Protection Act (IfSG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ifsg/__34.html
Legal remedy
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Procedure
- 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.
Notes (specifics)
None
Further Information
Head lice - what to do?
Federal Center for Health Education
https://www.kindergesundheit-info.de/themen/krankes-kind/kopflaeuse/
Unterstützende Institutionen
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Welche Dokumente resultieren aus dieser Leistung?
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Area of validity
Lower Saxony
Official approval
Officially approved by Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Altona District Office on 05.07.2021
Keywords
Rubella, Chickenpox, Whooping cough, Mumps, Cholera, Diphtheria, Measles, Plague, Poliomyelitis, Viral hepatitis A or E, Meningococcal infection, Typhoid abdominalis, infectious pulmonary tuberculosis, Paratyphoid fever, Lice, viral hemorrhagic fever, Shigellosis, Pediculosis, Lice infestation, Head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis, enterohemorrhagic E coli, Scarlet fever, Type b meningitis, Enteritis, Infectious disease in a community facility, Streptococcus pyogenes infections, Orthopox viruses, Haemophilus influenzae, Scabies, EHEC, Impetigo contagiosa, contagious bark lichen, Scabies