Every year, 6 to 12 million American children will acquire head lice. Head lice are most common in young children but can also be carried by teenagers and adults. If you or your children have head lice, there are a number of important things to know about them. Listed below are 10 reassuring thoughts about … Continued
How Do You Find Out If You Have Lice
For those who may not be familiar with head lice, they are microscopic, wingless insects that not only leave nits (lice eggs) and other forms of infestation in your hair but also draws blood from the scalp. In most cases, head lice can resemble dandruff, and as a result, some people will try to use … Continued
My Coworker has Head Lice!
You can’t always control who you work with, and your coworkers can’t always control whether or not they get head lice. While most people tend to think of head lice as a kid’s problem, the truth is that you can get them at any age. You likely noticed that your coworker has head lice by … Continued
Secret “Therapy” for Preventing Lice
As with most problems, a head lice infestation is best handled by preventing it in the first place. As a parent, you loathe the idea of having a school nurse report that your kid has lice or finding them on their head yourself when periodically checking. Since lice do seem to love the scalp of … Continued
Parents: Here’s How to Win the War on Head Lice
Don’t get too depressed if you find out a child of yours has head lice. You may have noticed them after washing their hair, or maybe a school nurse let you know about the presence of the little critters. Whatever the reason you know or suspect they have lice, the first step is not to … Continued
Why Do Lice Seem to Be More Common in Recent Years?
If you are the parent of a young child, you might have noticed that in recent years head lice seem to be more prevalent. Well, that’s true, and unfortunately, it gets worse: they’re also getting harder to treat and permanently remove. Like many insects, there’s an increase in resilience over time that makes head lice … Continued
Head Lice: What Parents Need to Know
As parents, you want nothing more than protect your children from potential dangers. This means learning all about various threats they might encounter on a day-to-day basis. If you have a young child in an early grade level, they are likely at a higher risk of obtaining head lice from a classmate or a school-wide … Continued
How This Head Lice Mobile Treatment Service Is Changing the Industry
This past year, we at Lice Lifters Treatment Centers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area launched a groundbreaking new service in the field of head lice removal. Although the concept of offering mobile services is not new, what’s special about this innovation from Lice Lifters is that we can now treat lice cases in children across … Continued
Is Head Lice More Common Now Than Before?
Each year, there are millions of reported cases of head lice infestations. Still, there are even more that go unreported across the country. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), between 6 and 12 million children are affected by head lice each year. Unfortunately, the number of reported cases rise each year. More children … Continued
Can You Prevent Head Lice?
Dealing with head lice is troublesome. For those who have never experienced the discomfort of head lice, the newfound sensation of bugs crawling on the scalp can be overwhelming. For those who have previously dealt with a lice infestation, promises are often made to never let it happen again. It does, though. Head lice spread … Continued