Lice Treatment & Lice Removal Service in Detroit, Michigan

This page covers both ends of the I-94 corridor: Detroit with its suburbs in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, and Ann Arbor along with the rest of Washtenaw County. Wherever you are between them, a LiceDoctors technician drives to your house to get rid of the lice, and the same day usually works, evenings and weekends included.

Your whole household gets looked at, not just the child who came home scratching, and anyone with lice is treated before the technician leaves. The method is all-natural, with no pesticides in it, and if you keep up the short aftercare routine, a 30-day guarantee means lice that return in that window are re-treated free.

Call LiceDoctors Ann Arbor and Detroit: (248) 633-8827 or book online.

From Corktown to Kerrytown: where we go

Southeast Michigan covers a lot of ground, and many suburbs here have their own LiceDoctors page. Use those links if you live in one of them; for the rest of the metro, start here. Not sure whether your town has a page? Every suburb that does is linked in the sections below.

Inside Detroit

Technicians come to Corktown, Midtown, New Center and Woodbridge, to the big old houses of Boston-Edison and Indian Village, and to Palmer Park, Sherwood Forest and the University District. On the west side that includes Rosedale Park and Grandmont; on the east side, East English Village and Jefferson Chalmers. Southwest Detroit and Mexicantown are covered, and so are Hamtramck and Highland Park, the two cities Detroit wraps around. Just past the east side, the five Grosse Pointe communities along Lake St. Clair have a page of their own.

North of Eight Mile

In Oakland County, Royal Oak, Troy, Rochester Hills and Farmington Hills and West Bloomfield each have pages. Ferndale, Berkley, Huntington Woods, Oak Park, Hazel Park, Madison Heights, Southfield, Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills are served from this one. Across the county line in Macomb, see Sterling Heights, Warren and St. Clair Shores, while Roseville, Eastpointe, Clinton Township and Shelby Township are covered from here.

West of the city and Downriver

To the west, Dearborn shares its page with Taylor, and Livonia and Novi, Westland and Canton have pages as well. Redford and Dearborn Heights are covered from this page, as are Plymouth and Northville, out where M-14 heads toward Ann Arbor. So are the Downriver towns: Wyandotte, Southgate, Trenton, Allen Park and Lincoln Park, plus Grosse Ile out in the river.

Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County

Ann Arbor has its own page, and the towns around it are covered from here, including Ypsilanti, Saline and Dexter. In town, technicians go to Burns Park, Kerrytown, the Old West Side and Ann Arbor Hills, and to apartments and rentals near the University of Michigan campus.

The trip itself is free as long as it is 30 miles or less for the technician. In a metro this wide some drives run longer, and those visits carry a two-hour minimum.

How a visit works, from a Detroit bungalow to an Ann Arbor colonial

Call the 248 number or book online, and give a rough head count for the house plus who has been scratching. Technicians start early and work late, every day including weekends and holidays, which is handy when the school nurse calls on a Friday afternoon, and a same-day opening is usually there.

The car that pulls into your driveway carries no logo, so the neighbors have no way to know why the technician is visiting. If a snowstorm has left your street unplowed or the driveway blocked, mention it when you book.

Most visits happen at the kitchen or dining room table, wherever the light is good. A dining chair with a straight back beats the couch, and the person being treated can read, do homework or watch a show. Skip washing the hair beforehand, and leave styling products out of it.

The technician looks through everyone's hair, parents included, and anyone who has lice gets treated before the visit ends. Billing runs on the technician's time, not by the head, so a look at Dad's hair, if he turns out to be fine, adds only a few minutes.

Whether the house is a brick bungalow on the west side or a colonial off Washtenaw Avenue, the process is the same. The technician talks it through, coats the hair in oil, then divides it into small sections. A professional-grade comb then goes through each section, slowly, pulling out bugs and eggs. Once everything dries, there is a second, slower pass: nits are lifted off by hand, strand after strand, since one egg left in place is enough to restart a case. More oil and a final comb-through wrap it up.

A typical family's visit runs 2.5 to 3 hours in all; if only one child with a short haircut needs work, it can be closer to an hour.

At the end, you get the aftercare routine. It is olive oil and combing that you keep up at home, and it catches eggs nobody could have seen on the day of the visit. That routine is the reason the deep clean is off the table. No one needs to bag every hat, scarf and mitten in the mudroom or run the dryer all night, because a louse that lands on a scarf is dead in a day or two at the outside, and you stop being contagious as soon as the technician leaves.

Meredith, Grace and what local families say

Meredith and Grace handle visits in this part of Michigan.

Recent reviews from local families keep returning to a few points. Georgia wrote in January 2026 that the technician "treated and checked all of us," explained the process and "used natural products," which is how a visit is meant to go. Tracey, in July 2026, gave thanks for the technician's "expertise and calm." Christopher, the same month, called the technician "very nice, informed" and highly recommended the service.

Jase's June 2026 review covers a different situation. Jase had already treated at home before finding the service, and wrote that the visit "put my anxiety at ease" and confirmed whether that earlier treatment had worked. If you have been through a round of store-bought treatment already, say so when you book. Resistance to the common over-the-counter treatments is widespread among US head lice, and a technician can check whether anything is still alive and comb out what is left.

Lice rules in Detroit and Ann Arbor schools and daycares

Michigan's state guidance

Michigan schools have a state manual to work from. The Michigan Head Lice Manual, revised in August 2013 by what was then the Michigan Department of Community Health together with the Michigan Department of Education, recommends a policy built around active cases only: live lice, or nits within one quarter inch of the scalp.

Under that guidance, a student found with an active case may finish out the school day and should be allowed to take the bus home. The student is readmitted after treatment and an examination: a parent brings the child to the office with confirmation of treatment, designated school staff check the hair, and the child goes back to class if no live lice are found. Nits farther than a quarter inch from the scalp should not keep a child out of school.

The manual also says mass screenings are not recommended and that checks should be done privately and confidentially. It is a set of recommendations: it notes that the lice policy is ultimately up to the school administration, and it urges schools and child-care settings to put their own policy in writing. The manual spells out the steps for a returning student, written for school staff but easy for a parent to follow.

Detroit Public Schools Community District and Ann Arbor Public Schools

The Detroit Public Schools Community District website does not post a head lice rule, so ask your school's office which steps it follows. Ann Arbor Public Schools has an Infestations page in its nursing services section and a school nurse contact page; the school nurse is the person to call. Suburban districts, charter schools, private schools and daycares each set their own rules, so the same call is worth making there.

Whichever school your child attends, let the nurse or office know the day you find lice. If the school asks for confirmation of treatment, as the state manual suggests, ask the nurse whether a note from LiceDoctors will do; an email to the office gets you one within one business day. Check the brothers' and sisters' heads at home too, and give the families of your child's closest friends a heads-up. For more background, see our post on Detroit school lice policy.

When lice season hits southeast Michigan

Lice-treatment searches nationwide crest in July and August and sag to their lowest in February, and calls tend to follow back-to-school, camps, sleepovers and winter break. Here, back-to-school arrives in late summer: Detroit Public Schools Community District started its 2026-27 year on August 24, according to the district calendar, and suburban districts follow calendars of their own.

Summer camp is the other big trigger. Kids come home from a week Up North or from day camp closer to home, then share a bedroom or a back seat with siblings, and a case can travel from one child to the next.

Michigan winters do not slow lice down. They live on the scalp, which stays warm under any hat, and the cold months bring indoor recess, basement sleepovers and holiday visits with cousins. Hats, scarves and hockey helmets get blamed, but lice move mainly through direct head-to-head contact; shared gear is a far less common route. Our post on why the Detroit climate is no problem for lice takes on the cold-weather questions.

Cleanliness has nothing to do with it. Lice show up most in kids between 3 and 11 and the families they live with, and some people never itch at all, which is why a quick check after camp, a sleepover or winter break is worth five minutes. If a note comes home about a case in the classroom, a check that same evening under a good lamp is the place to start.

Michigan prices for a home visit, Detroit to Ann Arbor

Michigan pricing starts at $199 for the opening hour, with $179 charged for each further hour. The first hour is the minimum, and beyond it the time is counted in 15-minute blocks. You are paying for the technician's hours, so one rate covers the whole house, whether one person is treated or four.

A typical family visit is 2.5 to 3 hours, which works out to $467.50 for 2.5 hours and $557 for three. All in, most households pay between $450 and $480. A 2-hour visit is $378, and $199 covers a one-hour visit, about the time one child with short hair takes. Long hair and more people stretch the visit.

Within 30 miles, the drive to your door is included in the price. Farther out, the appointment is booked with a two-hour minimum. Sundays carry a $20 surcharge, and major holidays can mean a holiday fee on top.

When your benefits come with an HSA or FSA, lice treatment is an eligible expense, so you can pay with that card. For insurance, request that the receipt list a diagnosis code, then submit it yourself for possible reimbursement; LiceDoctors cannot promise what a plan will pay. Itemized receipts are emailed on request, and every detail is on the pricing page.

Why Michigan families choose LiceDoctors

Over 600,000 clients and more than 20 years in, LiceDoctors' success rate, for families who stay with the simple follow-up plan at home, is 99.6%. One visit does it in almost every case.

Michigan parents can read about Dr. Madeleine Sowash, MD, FAAD before booking: she is a dermatologist, holds the role of Lead Medical Advisor at LiceDoctors, and reviewed and approved the treatment protocol. There are no pesticides in the method, with heat devices and enzyme products left out as well, which keeps it safe for a toddler in Canton and a grandparent in Grosse Pointe. It is private, too: no markings on the car, and the work stays behind your own front door.

The 30-day guarantee backs the visit: stick with the plan, and any lice that turn up again in the next 30 days get a free re-treatment. And with the technician coming to your door, there is no school-night drive across the metro and no waiting room.

Ready when the school nurse calls

If you found lice tonight or the school just sent your child home, call or book online. A technician can usually come out the same day, check the whole family and leave you with the aftercare routine, whether you live in Royal Oak, Ypsilanti or on Detroit's east side.

Call LiceDoctors Ann Arbor and Detroit: (248) 633-8827 or book online.