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Cleaning the house-not as bad as you think!
A common misconception about treating people and homes that have had contact with lice is that the only way to get them out of the house is to put everything in the home that is made of any type of fabric in plastic bags for two weeks and have the furniture and carpets cleaned. Not…
Read More6 Emotional Stages of Lice
1. SHATTERED INNOCENCE: You receive a lice notices by email from your school. Your daughters best friend’s mom calls to tell you that her daughter has lice. The head of the girl scout troop sends out an email letting you know 5 of the girls have lice. 2. DENIAL: “This doesn’t happen at our school.” “We wash our hair every day.”…
Read MoreTop 4 Reasons Your Head Lice Infestation Will Not Go Away
Top 4 Reasons A Person’s Head Lice Infestation Will Not Go Away Prior to Getting Treated at Our Clinic and Leaving Lice Free: 1) Over-the-counter treatments like RID and NIX do not work. Lice have mutated and have developed a resistance to the chemicals in those products 2) Nitpicking (picking by hand) is subject to…
Read MoreLos Alamitos Clinic Awarded Best In Health & Medical For Third Straight Year
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Los Alamitos, CA April 1, 2017-Los Alamitos Lice Removal has been selected for the 2017 Best Business of Los Alamitos Award in the Health & Medical category. This is the third straight year the clinic has received this prestigious award and the clinic has been honored with this award for all three…
Read MoreUnderstanding Head Lice and How Lice Survive
Understanding Head Lice When a family has a head lice infestation, there is a tendency to panic. Dealing with head lice can be frightening and stressful, primarily because people don’t tend to talk about how to treat head lice until they are dealing with them, which is when they are frantic and frustrated. Understanding head…
Read MoreHead Lice Screening: Don’t blame the schools or the school nurses!
Many school districts will have 3-4 school nurses to oversee 10,000+ kids. The average school nurse is in charge of daily health management of children with chronic health issues such as diabetes, asthma, cerebral palsy, seizures, heart conditions, food allergies, and mental health conditions. Then throw in the feeding and toileting issues, giving medications, monitoring for disease outbreak, handing out…
Read MoreKids-What to tell your child when they are sent home from school
When your child is sent home from school because he or she has head lice, the first thing you should say is, “You didn’t do anything wrong.” (You should say this to yourself as well!) It’s true.If your child comes home from school and says that another kid in school has lice, you can say…
Read MoreSan Bernardino Press Article on Los Alamitos Lice Removal and Why a brush with lice may be getting more common
Experts say growing resistance to treatments and the advent of the selfie may be spreading lice more than in past By DAVID DOWNEY / STAFF WRITER Published: Jan. 5, 2017 Updated: 10:55 p.m. Why a brush with lice may be getting more common Infestations: Reliable statistics aren’t available. Six million to 12 million infestations occur…
Read MoreSouth Bay Daily Breeze: Torrance Lice Removal Fights Increasingly Hard-To-Kill Lice
Torrance clinic fights increasingly hard-to-kill lice By Sandy Mazza, Daily Breeze Posted: 01/02/17, 5:08 PM PST | Scott Weiss had only recently opened the South Bay area’s first lice-treatment center, and already he had rid clients from 22 regional schools of the human-scalp parasites. Students from Redondo Beach, Torrance, Palos Verdes, Manhattan Beach, and Carson…
Read MoreConsumer Reports Challenges Pesticide Lice Treatments
Pesticide Lice Treatments Ineffective? Over-the-counter (OTC) lice treatments are now widely considered ineffective against head lice. The most recent research, published in the Journal of Medical Entomology, found that head lice in 42 states are 100 percent resistant to OTC lice treatment products. The watchdogs at Consumer Reports have questioned (1) why these products, marketed…
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