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Worried about the cost of lice treatment? Don't be! At LiceDoctors, we offer family-friendly pricing to make professional lice removal accessible to everyone.
Unlike other companies, we charge by the hour to make sure you're only paying for what you need and for the time that we're in your home.
Here's the details on our pricing:
Our prices are significantly lower than many other lice companies that may charge as much as $800 or more for a family of four
FOLLOW-ON TREATMENTS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE
If you would like a follow-up treatment for additional peace of mind, or if you have been re-exposed from school or family members outside of your home outside of the 30-day guarantee we offer discounted rates!
Crystal, Google review, August 2026
Clover did a great job and we are very satisfied with the service. Thank you!
Lauren, Google review, April 2026
So insanely helpful and educational!! And came so quickly to help! Calmed the fear around finding lice.
Heather, Google review, January 2026
Sophie was excellent, very calm and reassuring during a stressful time! I called at 4pm and she was available at 10am the next day. If this problem follows my son home from school again we will definitely be calling back.
Alton, Google review, January 2026
Fast friendly and efficient!
C., Google review, December 2025
Great job! Very through and pleasant technian!
Tacoma and Federal Way Shoreline and Edmonds Marysville and Lynnwood Bellevue and Redmond Puyallup and Auburn Everett Kirkland and Bothell Renton and Burien Mountlake Terrace
LiceDoctors treats head lice in homes across Seattle and the Puget Sound suburbs, from Ballard rentals to split-levels in Lynnwood. A technician drives to your address, so nobody has to sit in I-5 traffic with an itchy child, and you can usually get a same-day appointment, weekends included.
Your technician looks through the hair of each member of the household, including the sibling who insists nothing itches, and whoever has lice is treated in that same sitting, before the technician packs up. Afterward there is a simple routine to keep up at home. Should lice show up again inside 30 days while you are sticking with it, LiceDoctors will come back and treat again at no cost.
Call LiceDoctors Seattle: (206) 316-8637 or book online.
Technicians cover the city and the suburbs on every side of it, so read the areas below as a guide rather than a hard boundary. If your town is missing, call and ask.
Inside the city limits, we come to houses in Greenwood, Wedgwood and Lake City, craftsman homes in Wallingford, Fremont and Ravenna, apartments and condos on Capitol Hill and in South Lake Union, and family homes in Queen Anne, Magnolia, Beacon Hill, Columbia City, Rainier Beach and West Seattle. Street parking can be tight in the denser neighborhoods, so if your building has a loading zone or a guest spot, mention it when you book.
Across Lake Washington, Bellevue and Redmond, Kirkland and Bothell and Sammamish and Issaquah have their own LiceDoctors pages, while Mercer Island, Newcastle, Kenmore and Woodinville are covered from this one. Both bridges, I-90 and SR 520, crawl at rush hour, which is one more reason to let the technician do the driving.
Heading north toward Snohomish County, see the pages for Shoreline and Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace, Marysville and Lynnwood and Everett. Lake Forest Park, Mill Creek and Mukilteo sit along the same stretch and are on the list as well.
To the south, there are pages for Renton and Burien, Kent, Puyallup and Auburn and Tacoma and Federal Way. We also visit Tukwila, SeaTac, Des Moines, White Center and Normandy Park, and in Pierce County, Lakewood and Parkland.
Getting to you is part of the hourly price as long as the drive is 30 miles or less. Beyond 30 miles, expect a two-hour minimum. Spokane, Vancouver and other Washington towns are on the Washington locations list.
Most families book by phone, and you can also choose a time online. Appointments are offered all 365 days, Thanksgiving and New Year's Day among them, from early morning into the late evening, so an after-dinner slot on a school night or a Saturday morning is no trouble to ask for. Same-day slots are usually open. When you call, say who is in the house and whose hair is long or thick, since length is part of what decides how long the visit lasts.
The technician arrives in an unmarked car, which counts for a lot when the neighbors are a few feet away in a townhouse row or a shared hallway. If your building has a buzzer, a front desk or a gate code, include it when you book so nobody is left waiting in the rain.
First, everyone at home has their head checked, grown-ups too. Then comes the treatment. The technician explains each step, works oil through the hair, divides it into small sections and combs out lice and eggs section by section using a professional-grade comb. After the hair has dried, they go back through it strand by strand, hand-picking any nits the comb missed, and finish with a final oil application and one last comb-through. The slow strand-by-strand pass is the point: a handful of missed eggs can start the whole thing over.
A typical family visit, Seattle or anywhere else, runs 2.5 to 3 hours, and a visit for just one child with short hair usually wraps up in about an hour. Billing runs by the hour for the household rather than per person, and if you would like to learn what to look for, ask questions as the work goes.
Before leaving, the technician walks you through the aftercare plan. It relies on olive oil and combing to pick up any egg too small to spot while the technician was working, and thanks to it you can skip the deep clean and the bags of bedding hauled to the laundromat. If a stray nit turns up over the next few days, that is normal and the plan covers it. One visit nearly always does the job, and you stop being contagious once the technician heads out the door.
Nothing has to happen before the technician arrives, either. There are no products to buy, no laundry marathon to run and no deep clean to finish first; just have everyone who lives with you at home.
Jazmyn and Hannah serve Seattle and the suburbs around it. Every visit includes the same full-household check and the same strand-by-strand finish described above, with each step explained while it happens.
The Google reviews shown on this page are all five stars. Lauren, writing in April 2026, called her visit "So insanely helpful and educational," said help arrived quickly, and said it calmed her fear about finding lice. In January 2026, Heather described her technician as "very calm and reassuring during a stressful time." She also said she would call again if lice ever followed her son home from school.
Others kept it brief. Alton (January 2026) called the service fast, friendly and efficient. Crystal (August 2026) said her family was very satisfied, and a reviewer signing as C. (December 2025) praised a great job and a pleasant technician. Read together, they describe what most parents want on a hard day: someone calm who explains what is happening and does careful work. Lauren's word, educational, is worth taking literally; ask the technician to show you a nit up close, and the follow-up combing gets much easier.
Each district around the Sound writes its own lice procedure, so the rule your child faces depends on the school. Here is what the official pages say.
In Seattle Public Schools, the school nurse is the place to start. School nurse pages, such as John Hay Elementary's guide on when to keep your child home, ask families to contact the school office or nurse if there is any sign of head lice.
Under Highline Public Schools Procedure 3414, which covers Burien, SeaTac and parts of Des Moines, a student found with live lice stays in class until the end of the day and can ride the bus home as usual. Staff notify the parents, and the student can return once treated and checked by school staff, which the office expects within one to two days. A nurse or trained staff member may re-check the student in 7 to 10 days.
On the Eastside, the Lake Washington School District lets a student with live lice finish the day in class, be treated after school and return once treatment has begun, stopping in the health room for a screening before rejoining the class. Students can come back with nits after treatment, and for one or two cases the district does not send a class-wide notice. Northshore School District asks that students be treated before returning, no longer requires a parent to come in with them, and tells a classroom's families only when there are three or more confirmed cases.
Tacoma is stricter on paper. Tacoma Public Schools Regulation 3414R says the principal shall exclude a student with confirmed lice until the student has been successfully treated. For daycare and preschool, the Public Health Seattle & King County child care fact sheet says children can return after their first lice treatment, asks parents to tell the provider right away, and defers to each program's own sickness policy, so ask the program if it counts a LiceDoctors visit as that first treatment.
Wherever your child goes to school, a few steps help. Tell the nurse or health room what you found and when the visit is booked. If the school wants paperwork, ask the nurse or health room if our visit and note meet that district's rule; a note from LiceDoctors arrives by email inside one business day. Ask your other children's schools to check them, and give the parents of close friends a heads-up. The Bellevue School District makes the same suggestion, naming scout groups, clubs and teams, and points out that head lice are caught from close family and friends at home and in the community, not from the school. Our post on Seattle and Tacoma school head lice policies has more on local districts; procedures get revised, so the district's current page is the final word.
Nationally, searches for lice treatment climb in July and August and are lowest in February, and calls follow the moments when kids crowd together: camp, sleepovers, the return to school and winter break. Seattle's school year starts later than many: Seattle Public Schools brought grades 1 through 12 back on September 2 this year, with preschool and kindergarten starting September 8, so the back-to-school stretch here runs through September.
July and August, the national high point, fall entirely inside Seattle's summer break, which leaves day camps, family trips and sleepovers as the places kids spend the most time head to head.
The school breaks are worth marking too. SPS has no school from December 21 through New Year's Day, and mid-winter break, which includes Presidents Day, is February 15 to 19. Sleepovers with cousins and heads bent together over a tablet are the kind of close contact that moves lice, so a quick look at home before school resumes is a good habit. Our step-by-step head check guide shows what to look for.
Rain does not spread lice. They cannot jump or fly; they crawl from one head to another, and a louse that ends up on a pillow or a car seat lives only a day or two. What the weather does change is the drive: with a home visit, nobody crosses the 520 bridge in a downpour with a child who needs treatment.
Washington uses LiceDoctors' standard rates. The opening hour is $199; after that, each hour runs $179, and the clock moves in 15-minute steps, so a visit that wraps up at two hours and fifteen minutes is billed for exactly that. Every appointment has a one-hour minimum. One rate covers everyone treated, so a household of five pays by the clock, not by the head, and the same rates apply from Everett down to Puyallup.
A 2.5-hour visit, common for a family, comes to $467.50. The final bill for most families lands between $450 and $480, and if the only person with lice is a child with short hair, the total can sit near the one-hour minimum of $199.
Trips within 30 miles add nothing; past that, the two-hour minimum applies. Sundays add a $20 surcharge to the total, and booking on a major holiday can mean a holiday fee on top. Pay with HSA or FSA funds if you like, because lice removal qualifies, and ask for an itemized receipt by email. That receipt can include a diagnosis code if you want to submit it to your insurer for possible reimbursement; the insurer decides if your plan pays anything, so treat it as a maybe. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.
LiceDoctors has been treating lice in homes for more than two decades, with over 600,000 clients so far, and the success rate, with the at-home follow-up done as directed, is 99.6%. Company-wide, reviewers give LiceDoctors a 4.9 average rating across 8,400+ reviews. Because the technician comes to you, there is no waiting room to sit in and no drive across the lake. If you were searching for a lice clinic, note that LiceDoctors has no storefronts: the professional treatment comes to your home instead.
Pesticides play no part in the process, nor do heat devices or enzyme products. All-natural and chemical-free, the method is safe for all ages. The protocol carries the sign-off of a dermatologist, Dr. Madeleine Sowash, MD, FAAD. She is LiceDoctors' Lead Medical Advisor and reviewed and approved each step. If a drugstore product already let you down, you are not imagining it: resistance to the usual over-the-counter treatments is now widespread among US lice. And the 30-day guarantee stands behind the visit. Keep to the plan; lice that come back within 30 days get a free re-treatment.
Found lice at bath time tonight? There is no need to strip the beds or load the car. Call the Seattle line, tell the office how many people live with you, and a technician will head your way, often that same day. Evening and weekend visits are fine, and the car out front is unmarked.
Call LiceDoctors Seattle: (206) 316-8637 or book online.
Both, and to the south end too. Technicians visit homes throughout the city and in suburbs including Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Bothell, Sammamish, Issaquah, Shoreline, Edmonds, Lynnwood and Everett, plus Renton, Kent, Federal Way and Tacoma. Within 30 miles the drive is included; a longer trip means a two-hour minimum for the visit. Not sure about your street? Call (206) 316-8637 and ask.
In many local districts, yes, once the school accepts the visit as treatment. Lake Washington lets students return once treatment has begun, after a health room screening, and allows nits. Highline expects students back within one to two days, once treated and checked by staff. Tacoma excludes until a student has been successfully treated. Either way, the nurse at your child's building decides whether our visit and note count, so ask before your child goes back; LiceDoctors emails a school note within one business day.
No. The olive-oil-and-comb routine you follow afterward is what handles leftover eggs, so there is no need for a deep clean or days of laundry. The Public Health Seattle & King County child care fact sheet also limits the cleaning it suggests to items that were in contact with your child's head in the 24 to 48 hours before treatment started.
It is possible but uncommon. Lice travel mostly by direct head-to-head contact; shared hats, hoods and brushes are a much rarer route. A louse stranded on a coat survives a day or two at most, because it needs blood and warmth. A row of damp coats in the hallway is a much smaller risk than two kids leaning in over the same book.
Look closely in good light. A nit looks brown when you hold it against something white, has an oval shape, tapers at one end and will not slide off the strand, while dandruff and debris brush or slide off. Once you start looking closely after a treatment, much of what turns up is DEC plugs, dandruff or bits of debris rather than nits. If you are still unsure, the technician's check will settle it, and our guide to lice versus dandruff goes into more detail.
Not much. Have the whole household home, since each person gets checked, and set aside 2.5 to 3 hours if several people may need treatment. If you are in an apartment, share the buzzer or gate details when you book. No cleaning is needed beforehand, and a favorite show or game helps younger kids sit still.
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