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Our daycare has had lice scares twice now. One time it was just some kid in the school, but another time it was a kid in Xander's class. Whenever they've had it, they put a sign on the front door notifying everyone that there's been exposure to lice. Then they bag up ALL their stuff in garbage bags for us to take home and attempt to clean, haha. And then do checks throughout the day of the kids that are still there to make sure no one had caught it. We've been lucky so far not to get it!

No, they just sent my kid home with lice. I was pissed. They didn't tell us because the lice was in a different classroom from hers, completely disregarding the fact that you have to walk through that classroom to get to the others, kids have siblings, and the teachers rotate.

We had one recently. They disinfected the entire building and had everyone take home their blankets/toys/clothes/etc to clean at home.

My daughter had it in February. They also had an "outbreak" early in summer, where we didn't end up with it. I don't ever want either of my girls to have it again. We take a couple of precautions now. Our older daughter (4) uses a shampoo that is preventative (has mint and tea tree oil). I use it as well for me. I will use it on our younger as well when she's a little older.

We have a nit comb and I will periodically comb with it. Not as often now that we are so far removed from it.

I wouldn't remove my kid because someone else has it. It is ridiculously common in young kids. And trust me it sucked that my girl has hair almost to her bottom and sleeps with a ridiculous number of stuffed animals. And at the time she had it would also snuggle with us in the morning. It was a lot of work to clean our house in very quick order.