|
Hi, here is a little more reassurance for you - my husband, 7 year old daughter and worked in a South African orphanage for 5 months (we have since adopted our son from there) and to prevent lice we regularly shaved the kids heads and did scabies treatments every time a new child came to the orphanage on their own (not through an agency). One time we had to treat 45 kids aged 1-13 in the complete dark bacause of a blackout, the cream you put on has to go all over their bodies, then dry, then be rinsed off. And they can't touch their eyes. So we had 45 screaming kids (most touched their eyes at some point) running around naked with pink scabies cream drying on them. Quite an adventure! Our son is very healthy, no medical problems at all, but of course not all the kids were as lucky. If possible, try to get some medical tests done before most of the paper work (this you'll have to pay for on your own and get someone to take the child for you - someone at the orphange or foster home), I know in Canada it is the last step in the process which seems a little ridiculous to me. Good luck, Africa is such a great place to adopt from!
|