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When becoming a teacher you must be prepared for anything that could potentially happen in your classroom. With young children many of them are susceptible to becoming ill, and once one child gets sick in your classroom it is just a matter of time before the rest of the class is sick. But sometimes it isn’t about the internal symptoms of being sick but rather the external points. One seemingly harmless disease that always seems to rear it ugly little head in school is one that is parasitic. This parasite that I speak of is Head Lice. For the most part it is difficult to get head lice, but all it takes is one person to change that. The recipients range from children that live in poverty to upper class children that just don’t clean themselves properly. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) has created five guidelines that would attempt to control Infectious Diseases. The guidelines include the prevention of infections from spreading; require certain immunizations; reporting some illnesses, exclude some children; and to become prepared for an outbreak rather than waiting for an outbreak to occur. By following these guidelines you can increase the likelihood of averting an outbreak of head lice. Children are very hands on and have little or no concept of personal space or the dire emergency of certain ailments. So if you follow a few easy guidelines you will be able to circumvent the possibility of having your entire class contracting head lice.

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