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Head lice are contagious, just thinking about head lice causes  anxiety for many people. Are you scratching your head yet?  They  won’t make anyone physically sick, I can’t promise [...]

  Back to school means back to lice. It’s more rampant at the start of the school year. September is National Head Lice Prevention Month  Kids have spent their  summer in contact with [...]

During the first day of sleep away camp each camper will have a head lice screening. Each camp manages campers identified with head lice differently. I have worked with families who have had to [...]

Head lice negatively  affects tens of millions of people worldwide. There are many myths and beliefs about head lice and lice treatment. People still think that it is as a result of poor hygiene. [...]

Lice- “Modern Family” gets a case!! Lily has lice it looks like Claire does too. While scratching is a sign of head lice , a lack of having an itchy head doesn’t mean that a [...]

Head lice and nits can be hard to find. Nits are symmetrical, oval and attached to the side of the hair at a slight angle. The photo below is of numerous nits. There is a lot of “nit [...]

Getting rid of head lice requires skill, patience and a certain kind of obsessive personality. Before any Lice Be Gone technician “combs” (does a head lice removal and nit removal [...]

DO’s Do stay calm.If the school nurse calls to report that your child has lice, pick them up from school and try and relax. Don’t tear your home apart.Only wash the bedding from the [...]

Part the hair all the way down to the scalp in very small sections, look for moving lice and nits. Look at the entire head this way. If you find a bug, tape it to a white piece of paper so that [...]

If you hang around our head lice removal center for a couple of days you will hear most of the same questions asked over and over by different families (and if your’e like me, you will ask [...]

At Lice Be Gone we joke (although it’s actually true so not really funny) that lice bring out the crazy in people. I get it, I’m terrified of all reptiles especially the ones that start with “s”, [...]

This vignette is all true- I promise. At Lice Be Gone we say “lice brings out the crazy in people. I assumed that a woman who came to the office and called several times in between two [...]