the district health nurses would check pupils for nits, school sores, and the like
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She told the newspaper that scabies, school sores, and gum disease were rife among Aboriginal children.
"It seemed crazy that we were in there looking at throats when there was a kid covered in school sores," he says.
The topical antibiotic used to be sold as an over-the-counter treatment for boils, school sores, and other skin infections.
The principal said scabies, school sores, and head lice were "anecdotally getting worse".
We have kids living in actual poverty—i.e. in unhygienic, unhealthy circumstances with poor nutrition, and suffering from diseases such as rheumatic fever, TB scabies, and school sores infected with staph.
Her work includes treatment for serious skin infections such as scabies—which have been eradicated from her schools—boils, infected eczema, cellulitis, and school sores.
Charities are scrambling to ensure school sores, rheumatic fever, and respiratory illness are kept out of the classroom.
When she saw that some children had school sores she quarantined them.