Don’t Let Lice Ruin Your Holiday Season in Montgomery County
Nobody sees lice walking through the door at a holiday party. However, lice are impossible to ignore once you have an itchy, irritated head. Families are thrilled to be gathering for the holidays again this year. However, one unexpected guest that slips in on the scalps of your loved ones could leave you itching for […]
Not All Lice Treatments Are Created Equal
Before we get into the various lice treatment methodologies available in the Philadelphia area, let’s discuss the problem of head lice. These parasitic insects live off the blood under the human scalp. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there are about six million to 12 million reported lice infestations every […]
Can African Americans Get Head Lice
Any parent dreads the prospect of a child of theirs getting a head lice infestation. Head lice attach their eggs, or nits, to the hair shaft, so anyone with hair that’s a quarter-inch long or longer can get head lice. They are particularly common among children. This is generally due to the way they are […]
How Do I Prevent Lice Nits From Hatching?
HOW DO I PREVENT LICE NITS FROM HATCHING? Lice can be an incredible nuisance to deal with thanks to their small size and ability to grab tightly onto individual strands of human hair. What’s more, lice have a very short life cycle, taking only about 12 days to fully mature from birth. Once they are […]
Are Lice Treatments Safe?
Head lice live on the human scalp, commonly choosing children as their host. Although the lice cannot fly or hop or even jump, they get around quite easily, all to the dismay of troubled parents around the country. It’s likely that your child will get lice at some point during their school years. There is […]
How To Spot And Treat Head Lice In Kids
Millions of kids and adults in the United States suffer from head lice every year, and just as many tears are shed by adults and kids desperately trying to get rid of them. Sometimes over the counter treatments fail, and certain prescription insecticides can be insanely toxic, which leads a lot of lice suffers into […]
How To Treat & Get Rid Of Head Lice In Your Home
At Lice Lifters of Lafayette Hills, our compassionate, certified lice technicians want to arm you with information that can help you combat head lice. Lice Lifters takes lice removal seriously at our head lice treatment centers because we know families just like yours need a quick, affordable and effective solution to this problem. Let’s start by […]
How Long Can Lice Live On A Couch
Most people think of lice as being something related to poor hygiene. However, lice can readily spread from person to person and can affect people with excellent hygiene. Lice are usually spread directly from head to head contact, and treatments for lice infestations in Pennsylvania are directed at treating the human carriers. However, parents of children who […]
Is My House Infested With Lice (Like Bedbugs)?
We mainly think of bugs as those pesky critters that we run into when we’re outside. Sometimes, we get the kind that likes to either make their home indoors or literally on us. Bedbugs and head lice are a couple of this latter variety. At Lice Lifters of Montgomery County, we know a thing or […]
OTC Products And Home Remedies Don’t Work
When you find out that any of your children have head lice, you just want to cost-effectively handle the problem as quickly as possible with minimal disruption to you or your child’s life. With this in mind, manufacturers of over-the-counter (OTC) lice shampoos advertise them as the ideal head lice treatment. Unfortunately, this couldn’t be […]