Using a lice comb in wet hair can be a great way to remove lice nits. But it’s possible to eliminate them with smothering agents, essential oils, and powerful treatments called pediculicides. It’s ...

Marianne had a phone call she would never forget. Her daughter’s preschool called and asked her to pick up her child because she had lice. As someone who had never dealt with lice growing up and whose ...

A typical head lice infestation involves a small number of lice, usually fewer than 10, although some individuals may have more. It’s possible to have a lice infestation for a prolonged period, even a ...

Wrangling head lice, and the children they infest, must be up there with the most challenging duties a parent or caregiver has to face. And the job is getting harder. Commonly used chemical products ...

The back-to-school season, as exciting and relieving as it can be for parents, also means the start of the dreaded lice infestations. It's estimated that around 12 million cases of head lice ...

A new type of head lice that has shown to be resistant to the usual forms of treatment have been discovered in infestations recorded in 48 states, according to researchers, giving parents something ...

While head lice outbreaks tend to be pretty localized within schools or districts (unlike, say, the flu and norovirus cases that are surging nationwide), we’re seeing lots of lice chatter bubbling up ...

Back in the '80s, I was part of a generation of schoolchildren who lined up in front of the nurse's office to have our little noggins checked for lice. The nurses used elongated toothpicks to part our ...