Posts Tagged ‘head lice’
Welcome to Torrance Lice Removal!
Established in 2015, our professional head lice removal clinic is family owned and operated. Treating lice yourself can be very frustrating, time consuming, and costly. You have over the counter pesticides, expensive prescriptions, and comb outs that take hours and most of these options are not even effective. Lice have mutated over the years and…
Read MoreHow Are Lice Spread
Some people say I got head lice lying on the beach, sitting on a chair at the movie theatre, or wearing my friends hat. Those are very unlikely ways of spreading head lice. Head lice are spread almost exclusively with head to head contact. With one strand of hair touching another. And the reason is…
Read MoreWhere Can Lice Live
Head lice live on the scalp. They have evolved over thousands of years and have adapted to an environment that is very, very specific to a certain level of humidity, temperature, and the presence of human blood that can all be found on the human head. That means they don’t venture from that. They live…
Read MoreWhat Are Nits and Lice
Head lice are parasitic insects that live exclusively on humans. They live on the head and they suck blood every 2-3 hours from their host. They like to crawl along the hair, they’ve got claws that have been especially developed to hold onto human hair shafts and they don’t live very long if they come…
Read MoreAbout Head Lice in 400 Words (or less!)
s Do professional lice removal services work? Yes they do! Our two professional head lice removal clinics have been in business since 2015 and have successfully head screened and treated over 30,000 families with a 99%+ success rate. Even better, we take flexible spending plans and healthy spending plan cards. Sometimes, even insurance covers it. …
Read MoreBest advice for someone diagnosed with head lice?
1. Get your head checked by a professional as soon as possible. There are numerous cases where the person is misdiagnosed. We always head screen each person no matter what they tell us or who referred them to us 2. If there is a confirmed lice infestation, have the entire immediate family checked and any…
Read MoreALMOST ALL LICE ARE NOW RESISTANT TO THE OVER-THE COUNTER TREATMENTS
Almost All Lice Are Now Resistant to Over-the-Counter Treatment The majority of head lice in the United States are now resistant to most over-the-counter treatments. According to the most recent study, researchers found that head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) in 42 of the 48 states studied, including California, carry an average of three genetic mutations…
Read MoreHow Do You Get Head Lice
Lice do not hop, jump, or fly. The only crawl. You get head lice almost exclusively it’s from head-to-head contact and not from sharing athletic helmets, sitting on couches, sitting at the movies, or sharing brushes. Lice have evolved to with special claws and they move very quickly and efficiently along two parallel hairs and…
Read MoreLice and Clean Hair
It is very common for people when they hear that somebody that has head lice to think or infer from that that it is a result of poor hygiene. That is a myth. In fact, lice prefer clean hair over dirty hair. Clean hair is actually easier for lice to grab. So when someone has…
Read MoreLice On Clothes
It is very rare to see lice crawling around on clothing because lice needs to live on a head among a hair where the temperature is a constant, the humidity is high, where they can lay their eggs that get glued to the hair shafts, and where there is a presence of blood for their…
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