Lice Treatment & Lice Removal Service in Los Angeles, California

In Los Angeles, a drive across town can eat half an evening, so LiceDoctors takes the drive out of it. A trained technician comes to your home, from the San Fernando Valley and the Westside to the South Bay and the San Gabriel Valley, and same-day appointments are usually available, weekends included.

One visit covers the whole household. Every person gets a head check, whoever has lice is treated right then in your living room, and you are left with a simple aftercare plan. Keep to it, and if lice come back within 30 days, a technician comes back too, at no charge.

Call LiceDoctors Los Angeles: (310) 923-9787 or book online.

From the Westside to the Antelope Valley: where we treat

LA County is too big for one list, so here it is by region. The hourly rate already includes up to 30 miles of driving, which covers a lot of ground here but not all of it. In a county this size, some drives pass 30 miles, and a visit that needs one of those carries a two-hour minimum.

The Westside and the coast

Santa Monica and Beverly Hills have their own pages. From this page we also cover Brentwood, Westwood, Mar Vista, Venice, Playa Vista, Culver City, Pacific Palisades and Malibu.

Central and northeast LA

Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Koreatown, Hancock Park, Mid-Wilshire and downtown are all covered here, and so are Highland Park, Eagle Rock and Atwater Village on the northeast side. Much of this part of the city is apartments and condos behind gates or above garages, so have the gate code and parking instructions ready when you book.

The San Fernando Valley and north

In the Valley, Encino has a page, and we also go to Sherman Oaks, Studio City, North Hollywood, Van Nuys, Woodland Hills and Northridge. On the east end, Burbank and Glendale share a page; to the west, Calabasas has its own, with Agoura Hills next door. Over the hills, Santa Clarita has a page, and so do Palmdale and Lancaster out in the Antelope Valley.

Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley

Pasadena and South Pasadena share a page. Around them we reach Alhambra and San Marino, then farther east Arcadia and Monrovia, West Covina, Baldwin Park, Glendora and Diamond Bar, and out to Pomona and Claremont, which have pages of their own.

The South Bay and the southeast

Torrance, Redondo Beach and Rancho Palos Verdes, Hawthorne and Carson all have pages, and Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach and El Segundo are covered too. To the southeast, Long Beach, Downey and Whittier have pages, while Bellflower, Lakewood and Norwalk are covered from here.

What happens when the technician gets to your door

Call (310) 923-9787 or book online. Most of the time a same-day slot is open, and LA technicians keep a seven-day schedule all year, holidays too, starting early in the morning and working until late at night. An evening visit after work and the 405 is a normal request.

Your technician pulls up in an unmarked car. LA homes come with their own logistics: gated condo complexes, apartment garages with a call box, hillside streets where parking is tight. Tell us at booking how to get in and where to park, and if someone has to buzz the technician through a gate, keep a phone handy around arrival time.

Before any oil comes out, the technician screens the whole household, adults too. Anybody with lice gets treated during that same stop, and you pay by the clock; the number of heads does not change the rate.

Kids who split the week between two homes, say a Sherman Oaks house and a Mar Vista apartment, can carry lice to both. Everyone living in the home the technician visits gets checked, so if the other household needs help too, book it a visit of its own.

Think of the treatment as three passes, and your technician will walk you through them before starting. Pass one: oil goes in, the hair is divided into small sections, and the technician works a professional-grade comb through each one to clear out lice and eggs. Pass two waits until the hair is dry; that is when leftover nits get picked out by hand, strand by strand. Pass three is a last round of oil and a closing comb-through. The middle pass is the slow one, and skipping it is how a case comes back, so nobody rushes it.

Block out 2.5 to 3 hours for most LA families. One kid with a pixie cut may take only an hour, while thick, waist-length hair adds time.

The visit ends at the kitchen table with the aftercare plan. It runs on olive oil and combing, and its whole purpose is the eggs that were too small to spot under your kitchen lights. For nearly every LA family, nothing else is needed: no second appointment. As soon as the technician leaves, nobody who was treated is contagious, so the beach towels and sleeping bags can stay as they are; a louse that falls onto a towel is dead in a day or two.

Terry, Michael and what LA reviewers noticed

Terry, Ciera, Jessica, Michael and Julia make up the LA team; their first names are in the "Your local technicians" box on this page.

In August 2026, Kelly came home from a week-long business trip to find her five-year-old with a heavy case of lice. Michael was at her door at 8:30 that night. Her son was still recovering from surgery and fell asleep sitting up partway through, and Michael worked around him to finish; Kelly wrote that he "could not have been more sweet and more patient with him." She also mentioned the thorough follow-up plan.

Terry gets the same kind of praise. Caroline (July 2026) said Terry "arrived early and was so efficient and patient with our family," and Kim (April 2026) called her phenomenal. Tony (June 2026) wrote that Michael was great with the removal and on time. And Steve (April 2026) was relieved that his dad, who has worn his hair long for decades, did not have to shave his head.

Read together, these LA reviews come back to timing and patience: technicians who turn up when they said they would and stay calm with a child who is tired or squirmy. If your child is young, a favorite show or a snack within reach helps a long visit go by.

What LAUSD and California guidance say about lice at school

The state guidance

LAUSD is the main district here; ask your school nurse how it handles lice. For LA parents, the clearest reference is the state's: the California Department of Public Health's school and child care guidance on head lice, whose current version dates from December 2022.

In plain terms, the state's position is that an LA second grader with lice or nits should stay in class. CDPH says there is no evidence "no-nit" rules head off outbreaks or cut them short, and it counts the CDC among the groups that oppose those rules, along with the national associations for pediatricians and school nurses. If a nurse finds lice, the guidance says to tell the parents when the school day ends, along with a CDPH flyer. The day after treatment, the child should be checked again and let back into class; if lice are still there, the parents get another call.

Two things many parents expect are not part of the state's approach. Routine head checks for a whole class or school are not recommended, since CDPH says there is no evidence they reduce lice. A letter home to the whole class after one case is not recommended either, although CDPH lets each school's nurse or administrators decide. So lice can go around a classroom in Van Nuys or Venice without anyone sending word.

Districts beyond LAUSD

Other districts in the county write their own policies. We have rounded up the rules for Pasadena-area schools and for Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades schools, and our Los Angeles school lice policy guide covers more of the county. Daycares and preschools fall under the same state document, whose title names child care facilities alongside school districts, but a private preschool in Sherman Oaks can still write a stricter rule of its own. Ask.

Back to class

Before your child goes back, call the school nurse or the front office, ask what they need and find out whether LAUSD staff will accept a LiceDoctors visit, with our note, as treatment. The LiceDoctors office emails that note for the school (or a job, or camp) by the next business day after you ask. Charter and private campuses can have rules of their own, so make the same call there. Then check brothers and sisters, and text the carpool and playdate parents so their kids get a look too.

When lice turn up in LA

Nationally, July and August are the peak months for lice-treatment searches and February the slowest. In LA, the summer half of that curve lines up with day camps, beach camps in Santa Monica and the South Bay, a week of sleepaway camp in the San Bernardino Mountains and plenty of backyard sleepovers. Then classes start in August, so lice picked up in July can surface in the first weeks of school.

Southern California's mild weather makes no difference to a louse. A louse lives on the scalp, which stays warm on a June gloom morning and in a September heat wave alike, and lice get around mostly when heads touch directly: two kids sharing one phone on the bus, a sleepover tent in the backyard, cousins piled on the couch. Lice do not jump and cannot fly; getting from one kid to another means crawling across where two heads touch, and the dog is not a carrier.

In good light, look for something brown and oval, pointed at one end and fastened to a single strand. Flakes that blow away are usually dandruff, and plenty of specks turn out to be DEC plugs or debris rather than nits.

Winter break brings cousins in from out of town, shared beds and long drives to see family, so a quick check after the holidays is a good habit. So is a look through everyone's hair the week school starts, before the first round of birthday parties.

What lice treatment costs in California

In California, LiceDoctors charges $210 for the first hour of a visit, and from there each extra hour costs $185, counted in 15-minute increments with a one-hour minimum. The same rate holds from Malibu to Pomona, and it covers the whole household, not each person. A drive of up to 30 miles costs nothing extra; longer drives bring the two-hour minimum.

Real numbers help. If it is just your daughter with a bob, about an hour, the bill is $210. Two hours is $395, a 2.5-hour family visit is $487.50, and three hours is $580. A family of four usually pays about $490. Three kids and a parent with lice do not mean four bills; they mean a longer visit on one bill. And because billing runs in 15-minute increments, a visit that wraps up a little past the two-hour mark is not charged as if it ran a full third hour.

Sundays in LA add $20, and big holidays may add a holiday fee. Lice treatment is an eligible expense for HSAs and FSAs, so either card works. Your receipt can carry a diagnosis code for submitting to insurance; reimbursement is possible but not promised. Every rate and fee is on the pricing page.

Why LA families pick LiceDoctors

Families from Pasadena to Playa Vista are among the over 600,000 clients LiceDoctors has treated across more than 20 years. LiceDoctors' success rate, company-wide, is 99.6% when families stay with the at-home plan. The 4.9 average rating from 8,400+ reviews is a company-wide number too, not an LA one; the reviews quoted on this page come from LA families.

Dr. Madeleine Sowash, MD, FAAD, gave her review and approval to the protocol Terry, Michael and the others use in LA homes. Her field is dermatology, and she serves LiceDoctors as Lead Medical Advisor.

In a Glendale nursery or a Long Beach guest room, the method is the same. All-natural and chemical-free, it keeps pesticides, heat devices and enzyme products out of the technician's bag entirely, which is why it is safe at every age. If a box from a Ventura Boulevard drugstore has already let you down, you are not alone; across the country, plenty of lice now shrug off common over-the-counter treatments. Oil, a professional-grade comb and patient hands do not rely on any chemical. The 30-day guarantee stands behind every visit from Lancaster to Long Beach: follow the plan, and should lice reappear inside those 30 days, a technician returns at no charge.

Skip the freeway and call a technician

Lice are common in kids and in the families they live with, and a spotless house in Hancock Park gets them as easily as anyone's. However far out you are, from the Antelope Valley to the Palos Verdes Peninsula, call and tell us where you are, and we will look for the soonest time that works. Lice found after dinner do not have to wait for the weekend.

Call LiceDoctors Los Angeles: (310) 923-9787 or book online.