Posts Tagged ‘lice treatment’
Head Lice DNA Can Reveal Details About First Americans
Head lice have been constant, if unwanted, human companions for as long as our species has been around. Evidence of this ancient connection includes a 10,000-year-old-louse found on human remains at an archaeological site in Brazil and an inscription on a 3,700-year-old ivory lice comb that might be the oldest known sentence written with an…
Read MoreHow a Facebook post can spread misinformation about a lice outbreak
The power of social media can be amazing, but it can also be a curse. For example, a rumor spread throughout Facebook alleging a lice outbreak at a popular Waterpark in Corpus Christi, Texas. It wasn’t true. “I clicked on the post and I read it and it didn’t seem quite right. It didn’t seem…
Read MoreWhen Lice Becomes Deadly Recent cases of lice and anemia have people wondering how these blood-sucking insects can kill.
By Bill SullivanJun 5, 2021 Discovery Magazine In April 2021, a 4-year old girl was near death when her grandmother rushed her to a hospital in Scottsburg, a small town in southern Indiana. The girl had lost so much blood that doctors had to administer four blood transfusions. The loss of blood was not due…
Read MoreFive Reasons Why Your Child’s Lice Keeps Coming Back!
*(Hint: Chances are that it never left) 1. Lice Resistance to Chemicals-When a family member gets head lice, most people run to the local store and rely on products full of chemicals that no longer work. The lice have mutated and are now resistant to the chemicals in over-the-counter shampoos. 2. Relying on outside product…
Read MorePediculosis Treatment
Pediculosis is the medical term for a head lice infestation. How do you treat head lice or pediculosis? You have the option of doing it yourself with various products that I will talk about or you can get it done professionally by someone that knows how to do it and can do it quickly. The…
Read MoreLice Shampoos
When people talk about head lice shampoos, generally what they are talking about is a product that is a shampoo or a cream rinse or a gel or a moose or some other oil type formulation that you mix in with your hair that is used to kill head lice. These products are usually available…
Read MoreHollywood Stars Caught with Head Lice
Our clinics have treated Olympic Gold Medalists, Principals, famous lawyers, and professional athletes. Hollywood stars seem to be in a class all their own. Glamorous makeup artists, personal stylists and hairdressers even make them appear much more beautiful and refined than everyday, normal people. Think of some of your most loved actors and actresses. What…
Read MoreWho Feels Bullied Because of Head Lice? Parents!
October is National Bullying Prevention month, and while the focus is rightly on the treatment of children, parents can feel bullied, too, especially when it comes to having head lice in the family.A OnePoll survey of 2,000 U.S. parents—conducted in conjunction with Lice Clinics of America—found that 52 percent of parents feel judged by other…
Read MoreEnd The Lice-Mare Today
It’s no secret that ridding a family of head lice can be stressful and time consuming—a nightmare that some have called a “lice-mare.” Most home lice treatments require repeated applications, tedious comb-outs and nitpicking, with no guarantee of success. If one nit is missed, the lice will return. Los Alamitos Lice Removal and Torrance Lice…
Read MoreSending Your Child Back to School After They Have Lice
This Is When You Can Send Your Child Back to School After They Have Lice August 9, 2018 by Angela Anagnost-Repke “Your child has lice.” These are words that every parent dreads. Just the thought of lice on anyone’s head makes me itch all over my body and want to take a match to my…
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