Summer Camp Lice Check. Have you ever driven all the way to your child’s summer camp, only to be turned back at the gate because she has lice? You are wondering if your kid will pass the lice check at camp this summer? First of all camp lice checks are common on the first day […]
Top 3 Lice Treatment Myths. First of all you have Lice and you are not happy about it! This morning at 2:00AM you felt something crawling on your scalp. Then you went to the bathroom to see what was going on. Next you took a comb and started combing your hair over the sink and […]
Head lice prescription medication. Head Lice have become resistant to pesticides used in both OTC and Rx Lice Medications. This is has led to recent media talk about Super Lice. What are Super Lice? Super Lice are head lice that have developed resistance to the available pesticides in lice treatment preparations. Therefore even if parents use […]
Lice Incubation. First of all Head Lice Stigma creates a great deal of fear in parents. As a result Head Lice are a poorly misunderstood human parasite. In contrast to humans, Primates have their own parasites that are similar to, but genetically different from, human head lice. Baboons engage in something called social grooming which establishes dominance in […]
Super Lice Summer Camp? Mutant Super Lice bothering folks in your neighborhood? August is high season for lice. Between the end of summer camp and the start of school, head lice often reach their peak in terms of the infestations of school aged children. According to this published study in the Journal of Entomology in […]
Lice Treatment 2018. First of all what kinds of lice can humans get? Head Lice, body lice and pubic lice. And yet there is only one kind of lice your child can get: Head Lice! Furthermore head lice only live on the human scalp and are not interested in anything off of a human scalp. […]
How do you Get Lice? Let’s put our heads together to think about how to rid our children and our community of head lice. The first step is to learn about how your children contracted head lice in the first place. Here is what we have learned over the past 14 years at NitWits of treating […]
Home lice cure. Parents often ask how to kill the lice and nits on their children’s heads. There is a surprising amount of confusion and misinformation about head lice on the internet. The urban myths and conflicting head lice information creates additional stress for parents when their kids get head lice. Parents keep hearing about […]
Lice Nits Eggs Super Lice are more prevalent than first thought. In a study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology pesticide resistant head lice have been found to be much more widespread in the US than previously thought. Super Lice are defined as lice that have developed resistance to the pyrethrin and pyrethroid pesticides […]
Super Lice Increasing. First of all head lice are now resistant to the most common lice shampoo chemicals are widespread in the US in 2016. Dr. Yoon in his 2016 study looked at head lice samples collected from 48 out of 50 US states and found that head lice have developed genetic resistance to pesticides […]
