Female lice also attach sticky unhatched eggs called nits to hair. These eggs take eight to nine days to hatch and can trigger another infestation if not removed, leaving children to have head ...

Wrangling head lice, and the children they infest, must be up there with the most challenging duties a parent or caregiver has to face. And the job is getting harder. Commonly used chemical ...

An Australian hairdresser shocked social media users with a now-viral video showing a client’s massive lice infestation ... “This made my head itch,” said one user. Maroun first went ...

Head lice transmission usually takes place through direct head-to-head contact with an infested individual, "which frequently occurs during activities like sports, sleepovers or other playful ...

Removing lice from your child's hair can take hours ... is to remove and kill the bugs that fall off of the infested person's head. Hot water that's at least 130 degrees Fahrenheit is an effective ...

"Head lice can be psychologically stressful to the affected individual." The AAP recommends against "no-nit" policies that prohibit students from attending school while having a lice infestation.

decided Friday by the Alaska Supreme Court (in an opinion by Chief Justice Maassen): A woman with a severe head-lice infestation was detained at a psychiatric hospital while she awaited evaluation ...

“Lice found on combs are likely to be injured or dead, and a louse is not likely to leave a healthy head unless there is a heavy infestation,” the report stated. The AAP says the “ideal ...

It's estimated that around 12 million cases of head lice infestation are reported in the U.S. every year, with some studies showing that just under 20% of all schoolchildren will have lice at some ...