Head lice are parasitic insects that burrow to the root of people’s hair and suck the blood from their scalps. While many parents have to treat their children, knowing how to find and remove ...

“Head lice is not a reason for a child to miss school.” The CDC has actually recommended against sending kids home for lice for more than 10 years.

In head lice outbreaks, ‘selfies’ may be a surprising culprit Getting close for group selfies could give lice an opportunity to crawl from one head to another, as they cannot jump or fly.

Head lice infect hair on the head. Tiny eggs on the hair look like flakes of dandruff. However, instead of flaking off the scalp, they stay in place. Lice feed on human blood. They can live up to 30 ...

Medically reviewed by Brendan Camp, MD When your scalp is itchy and white flakes are visible in your hair, you may wonder whether you have lice or dandruff. Their symptoms can overlap, making it hard ...

Wrangling head lice, and the children they infest, must be up there with the most challenging duties a parent or caregiver has to face. Primary school-aged children, who seem to always be in close ...

An adult head louse can lay up to eight eggs every single day and when those eggs hatch out 7-10 days later each of those head lice will start laying eight eggs per day once they are fully grown ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — For generations, children with signs of head lice were summarily sent home by the school nurse, to their shame. Now schools have become less nitpicky.

Wrangling head lice, and the children they infest, must be up there with the most challenging duties a parent or caregiver has to face.