The dreaded colored letter comes home from your child's school or camp program. Someone in his/her class or group has lice. What are you to look for? How do you really know if your child has lice? Parents check their children's heads when these notices come home but most often they really do not know [...]
One of the most common questions I get when clients are here is "where do these critters come from? Why can we not just make them go away?!" The answer to this is quite simple-we have evolved with lice and for the time being they are here to stay. The history of lice can be traced [...]
Head Lice, otherwise known as Pediculus Humanus Capitis. A rather large word for a creature that is so small. So small, yet so large among us. So large and so common, that there is an association named for it. The National Pediculosis Association (NPA) is a wonderful group that I have come to rely on [...]
Once your children have been treated for lice, they are safe to return to school. After you have taken the time to either rid the problem yourself or hired someone to help you with it, you want to make sure that all of the lice are gone. Getting rid of lice is a process and [...]
If you have school aged children, then you are probably very familiar with lice and it's ever so popular presence! These critters, though they do not pose any threat or disease, are just a plain nuisance and cause much stress for most families. The even bigger stress seems to come when it involves your child [...]
When you find out that your child or you have lice, the first thing you want to do is "de-louse"! You want the critters out of your hair and you will probably go to just about any measure to get it done. However, what you might not think about is that these products, whether chemical [...]
You might be asking yourself this question this very moment. You are probably saying to yourself every time you turn around, you hear someone you know has lice. As as an adult, you do not remember it being like this when you were a child. The toxic chemicals that were used to treat lice 20-30 [...]
The answer to this question is you probably don't. So often, people find out that they have lice and keep it to themselves. They are embarrassed. They do not want others to know or better yet, they do not want other people to know that their children have contracted it. Why? Well, unfortunately, these little [...]
Potomac Patch Article September, 2011 on Potomac Lice Lady
Some of you may have a seen a recent article about other services who prefer to use Rid to treat Lice. If you prefer to not use chemicals and pesticides on your children, then that is probably why you are here. However, if all else fails, and the problem persists, there are severe cases where [...]