{"id":878690,"date":"2026-10-11T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878690\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:28:08","slug":"im-a-primary-care-doctor-and-a-parent-heres-how-i-handle-lice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878690\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a primary care doctor and a parent. Here\u2019s how I handle lice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FZDRUIBBOZCCJEOAVPMFIKE264\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) are parasites that primarily infest children in child care, preschool or elementary school. Having lice doesn\u2019t indicate poor hygiene, despite a long-standing misconception driven by stigma, and lice don\u2019t spread other diseases. But children with lice are often shamed and unnecessarily <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2022-059282\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2022-059282\">excluded from attending school<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) are parasites that primarily infest children in child care, preschool or elementary school.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-878690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}