How to Hire a Professional Delouser

School officials all over the world dread hearing that one of their students has head lice. If you run a school, day care or nursery and head lice infests one of your charges, it may be time to call a professional. Finding and hiring a delouser doesn't have to be a huge task.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. Check the county health department for names of reliable delousers.
2. Find out if a local University Medical Department has recommendations about hiring a professional delouser. Frequently, programs at local universities deal with head lice. Check into the program to see if there they can recommend professionals.
3. Decide how much service you want from the delouser. There are several levels of service that delousers offer. You need to decide whether you want him to come in or just consult.
4. Determine whether a delouser should check all heads if you have her come to your institution. Sometimes the delouser checks by the head and sometimes by the hour.
5. Hire the delouser to fumigate the premises if necessary. A delouser may have to do more than just a head check to get rid of unwanted lice. He may need to eliminate them from the area, particularly cloth items.
6. See if you can do the delousing yourself by using a professional delouser's consulting service. Explain your problem and see if there's a chance that you could remove the lice without a professional.
7. Use free information offered by the Head Lice Hotline. This website offers basic information on delousing and provides a list of volunteers with delousing experience that you can call.