LICE TIPS

Parents in northern weather climates such as the Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan areas often ask if lice die in the cold weather. The answer is no. What head lice need to survive are strands of hair (any length even buzz cut) and access to blood in the head, which is their food source.

So often we at LiceDoctors hear from parents that they feel that they should have known that their child has lice. "How did I miss it?", they wonder. As Denise, a mom in Troy, Michigan said to us last week, "I feel remiss somehow. Like, how how did both of my kids have it so bad and I didn't notice it?"

An advanced case of head lice that LiceDoctors treated. Yes, the brown on the paper towel is an abundance of head lice.

As with other geographical areas across the US, young children in Boston face lice infestations in their classrooms through out the school year and in their camp groups during the summers.

Head lice in summer camps are quite common as lice tend to be more prevalent during warmer months. Learn the best tips to prevent head lice spread in camps in our article.

It is a common belief that some hair types are more susceptible to head lice than others. But is it true? Find out what kind of hair lice like the most!

Parents whose children have friends with head lice, or who have been exposed are naturally concerned with the question is lice contagious or not? Unfortunately, the answer is yes.

Picking out nits takes time, knowledge, and patience. In order to get rid of a case of lice, one has to be able to recognize nits and then know how to extract them from the hair.

Where do lice come from and how do you get lice if you haven't been around anyone? Read this article to find out the origins of head lice and how they spread.

LiceDoctors finds that in the vast majority of families, if the children have head lice then the mom has it. Head lice travel from head to head and as we moms are in close contact with our kids, it is a likely scenario that we will inherit a bug or two from them.