Celebrities! Stop hugging and getting your heads so close together! Don’t you know that’s how the nits spread?” I don’t even ...

Despite taking every hygienic precaution possible, some children are still going to bring home a case of head lice from a public school or day care center. Contact with one affected playmate can lead ...

When teachers open their classrooms to students this fall, they’re also inviting an unwanted guest: head lice. Any parent who’s gone several rounds with a nit comb and a squirming child knows how ...

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DEAR DOCTOR K: A child in my daughter's classroom has head lice. What do I need to do if my daughter gets it? DEAR READER: Lice — the visitor dreaded by parents everywhere. Head lice are small insects ...

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It’s not a crisis. It’s not a reflection of your parenting. It’s going to be fine.

If any of my neighbors had seen me ironing my daughter’s mattress while wearing a blue shower cap, they undoubtedly would have thought I was nuts. But after we found nits – lice eggs – in my ...

Whether you kill them with hot or cold air, attack them with chemicals or natural remedies, or meticulously comb them out live, lice infesting a child’s head are a problem that demands to be addressed ...