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Ohio is among 25 states where super lice has been reported.
This does not concern some local health officials.
Erin Terpstra, school health coordinator for Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County Public Health, and Janine Howard, that agency's director of disease prevention, said they are not worried about the bug said to be resistant to most over-the-counter treatments.
In fact, Terpstra wonders how bad the so-called outbreak actually is.
“The name 'super lice' doesn’t alarm me,” she said. “It is just lice that has not been treated properly to begin with.”
Lice are a nuisance, but they are not reportable to the Ohio Department of Public Health, according to Ohio Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melanie Amato.
Terpstra said directions on lice treatments should be properly followed "to a T" and hair should be combed with a special comb for several weeks to get nits and live bugs.
Bedding and other linen should be washed and dried at high heat.
“They don’t carry any disease, nor do they jump from one head to another,” she said of Lice. “A lot of time there are several siblings in the household, and (lice) are passing back and forth.”
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