HAVERTOWN, PA. (WPVI) -- Back to school time brings the return of many things. Unfortunately, outbreaks of head lice in schools are one of them. A local expert shares her tips on what works, what ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Lice. Just the word can make anyone’s head feel itchy! Every year, according to an estimate from the CDC, between 6 and 12 million children get head lice! But as annoying as ...
Between 6 and 12 million children ages 3 through 11 get head lice every year in the U.S., according to an estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a lot of itching. If ...
Lice checks were a dreaded part of my childhood — I remember anxiously waiting for the nurse to call my name for a checkup, hoping a call home wouldn’t follow (sometimes, I wasn’t so lucky). Head lice ...
Although head-lice infestations most commonly affect school-aged children and their caretakers, I have only ever had lice as a 20-something. My freshman year of college, my boyfriend and I both ...
This image depicts five body lice: Pediculus humanus var. corporis, which from left to right included three nymphal-staged lice, beginning with a stage N1, then N2, and thirdly a N3-staged nymph, ...
They're back. Holidays are over, school is starting... and the nits are gathering. After a summer of relative inactivity, head lice are about to swoop on a new generation of clean, healthy heads and ...
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They feed on human blood and might go after your child this Halloween. This isn't a joke. It's lice. Around Halloween, lice centers see a spike in cases, said Claire Roberts, CEO of Lice Clinics of ...
Getting hit with a bad case of lice already produces enough stress to make you want to pull your hair out, but being host to a specific strain of the blood-sucking parasites might be even worse, as ...
Between 6 and 12 million children ages 3 through 11 get head lice every year in the U.S., according to an estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a lot of itching. If ...