The females lay eggs close to the root of the hair so they are kept warm by the scalp, and these hatch into more lice which breed and multiply. Dr Perotti added that in bad cases such as this one ...

Yet doctors have reported a surprising increase in cases among teenagers, who normally aren’t in the highest-risk group for lice. While teens with younger siblings run a risk of catching lice ...

Now, this is sure to louse up your day. Rachel Maroun, a hairdresser, is causing social media’s skin to crawl with a series of viral videos featuring the heads of her clients who are suffering ...

That’s a real problem for parents and kids in the United States, where an estimated 6 million to 12 million cases of lice occur each year among children ages 3 to 11, according to the Centers ...

More troubling, however, is the fact that in many cases lice have grown resistant to the ... would never spray Deet on my child no matter how bad the mosquitoes, I was happy to avoid the chemicals.

Head lice are not known to spread disease." Yeesh! A really close friend of mine had a really bad case of lice once, and it spread everywhere. After seeing everything that she had to deal with ...

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Getting hit with a bad case of lice already produces enough stress to make you want to pull your hair out, but being host to a specific strain of the blood-sucking parasites might be even worse ...

HOUSTON — Parents often complain that schools can be germ factories with kids catching all sorts of coughs and colds from their classmates. But it used to be recommended that kids with certain ...