maz its not just girls,my youngest too get them regularly eldest 1 has never really suffered with them,it really bugs(no pun)us that i will spend time denitting them only to find they keep getting them because of the lazy sods of parents who do not check there own kids hair,it feels like your fighting a losing battle,but were using headrin seems to work fairly quickly and our doctors are putting it on prescription,so if you dont ask you dont get,otherwise its quite expensive when you have to keep doing it every couple of weeks.