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Both my girls got it really bad one year, like multiple times. I took one of them to a professional place to get treated and the lady who did her hair showed me exactly what to do. I bought the products they had, ever since then I'm now the lice treatment guru lol!I didn't know they can only live on humans, that makes me feel a lot better lol.
They can actually live up to 24 hours off the human head. That is the biggest issue. I would say the pits are the biggest concern as the foam doesn't get cleaned regularly and people can get submerged lol.
Also, make sure coats, etc are not touching in the cubby room or wherever they leave their things. This will help prevent the spread.
We had a 6 month outbreak at a school I taught at. It was awful. The only thing we did was bag up stuffed animals. The foam woudl be tough to do that with, but I would think 1-2 days with no one in it would take care of it.
If there is sweat and dead skin cells, the lice can live longer than a few/seconds without a human host. I worked in a child care and have seen them walking on clothes and walking on combs…Both my girls got it really bad one year, like multiple times. I took one of them to a professional place to get treated and the lady who did her hair showed me exactly what to do. I bought the products they had, ever since then I'm now the lice treatment guru lol!
The "good" news is, lice prefer clean hair (that's reassuring to me to know I don't have dirty children haha) and each "family" of lice only like certain blood types, so even if some kids do get lice on them from someone else, if that bug doesn't like their blood, they die pretty quickly and don't reproduce.
Also, most of the old Rid products do absolutely nothing (other than make your hair sticky and gross)
The mint spray is the best way to treat it...along with the metal spiral lice combs.
So no need to fumigate the gym, it's unevccesary and a waste of time and $$