Every day we're contacted by people with some variation on this comment – asking for an appointment if they’re in the Atlanta area or via our hotline requesting advice/instructions on performing a head check or head lice removal if they’re outside of the Atlanta-area. Because an itchy head means head lice, right? Because there’s a lot of media play recently about “selfies causing head lice” … [Read more...]
Magic Potion (I Mean) Lotion to Get Rid of Head Lice?
There’s been a lot of press recently about the newest product in the battle against head lice, a prescription-only lotion which is applied for just ten minutes and is reported to not require subsequent head lice combing. Sklice® which is topical ivermectin, received FDA approval in February and an article about it appeared recently in the The New England Journal of Medicine. So is it the … [Read more...]
Will a buzz cut of a boy, man or a girl (I guess) eliminate a case of head lice?
Over the years, we’ve had clients – girls and moms on whom we’ve confirmed or detected head lice. Sometimes we treat them and sometimes they choose to self/home treat. In any event, they engage in a battle to remove the head lice and except for considering a trim or cutting a few inches if the hair is extremely long or has dry/damaged ends, for the most part, females just seem to accept that … [Read more...]
Head Lice INFESTATION?!
I recently met a mother of school-aged children, and she is concerned about her children getting head lice. She said she thought the use of the expression "infestation" made it seem so much worse than I was trying to convince her it really is. Her comment resonated with me and confirmed my personal mission to continue to educate people about the reality of head lice, including methods that will … [Read more...]