Thursday, December 17, 2009

Re: [Forum] Lice and Headphones? Lousy Headphones? Prevention

Get each child their own headphone they can bring with them or leave
in a plastic bag in the lab.

its worth the $5 to parents to not have to worry about it. And would
probably cost less in teacher
time and cleaning solution (I am not sure that water would kill a louse).

http://www.buyextras.com/lihe.html

http://www.buyextras.com/chhe.html

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Jennifer Howland <jenny@kdbs.org> wrote:
> We have attached headphones on the computers in the lab. We have had
> several cases of lice. The headphones are made of naugahyde plastic on the
> outside with foam on the inside. I have been asked to wipe them down with
> water between each use. Does anyone have experience with this?
>
> If I were a louse I would find a better place to deplane than plastic
> headphones. My understanding that given 72 hrs the nits and lice die so
> over the weekend we start fresh.
>
> Any advice would be great. I want to stay away from chemical wipes.
>
> Jenny Howland
> Lower School Technology Teacher
> Katherine Delmar Burke School
> 7070 California Street
> San Francisco, CA 94121
> 415 751 0177 X326
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