Nit Ninjas

Currently in Australia 1 in 4 primary school children have head lice at any given time.

Put simply, head lice are an Environmental Health Epidemic that can have a negative impact on the general health and wellbeing of a child. An infestation can cause extreme itchiness, sleeplessness, restlessness, irritability, poor concentration and lowered immunity.

Commonly used treatments are no longer effective as head lice have built up a resistance to them. This, combined with changes to school practices in recent years has seen an alarming increase in the number of head lice infestations in our primary schools. This figure will continue to rise unless something is done to break the cycle.

When our family was directly impacted we just wanted a cure. All we could find were ”band aids”. Wasting valuable time and money on ineffective treatments, spending hours removing every single nit only to have another infestation a week or two later was when everything changed.

For us it’s not just about selling another head lice product. By raising awareness through education and encouraging schools to work together with a “whole school approach” we aim to lift the social stigma and the apathetic attitudes in the community to help reduce the increasing number of infestations and keep it that way.