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Best Hairstyles to Prevent Head Lice

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Head lice is most commonly spread through head to head contact. Avoiding this close contact is the best way to prevent head lice from happening to your family. However, you can’t control what other people do, nor can you control what your child does when they’re out of your sight….

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What is the Fastest Way to Get Rid of Head Lice?

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What happens when you have an important event to attend and you discover that your child has head lice? Before you assume that everything has to be cancelled, rest assured that it’s possible to treat head lice overnight. Even kids are allowed to return to school after a head lice…

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Head Lice and Halloween: What You Need to Know

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Even though Halloween may look different this year due to COVID, many families are still celebrating with close friends and family. What you may be wondering is if the same risks for Halloween costumes and head lice still exist.  For the record, it’s extremely unlikely that your child will catch…

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How Likely are Siblings to Get Head Lice?

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Naturally, when you find out your child needs head lice removal, one of the first concerns is how to prevent the spread to siblings. Having one child with head lice is enough – you surely don’t want two or three or four of them! But how likely is it for…

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Back to School: Head Lice Treatment and Prevention

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Even though there isn’t a “season” for head lice treatment, we tend to see head lice cases increase significantly in the fall, mainly because kids are returning to school. However, this year looks different due to COVID. Many schools are closed in our state, but childcare programs are allowed to…

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Can You Get Rid of Head Lice Just by Combing?

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One of the best tools you have to fight head lice is wet combing. This technique involves combing out lice, nymphs and nits before they have a chance to mature and reproduce. But it’s important to know how and when to use wet combing for the best results.  Typically, we…

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Head Lice Cases on the Rise Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

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As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with the novel coronavirus, head lice are still lingering and causing panic in homes. According to this article, lice cases are on the rise amid the pandemic, probably because family members are having to quarantine together in close quarters.  As annoying…

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