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 ...

For little bugs with no bite, head lice loom large, big enough to invade our vocabulary. Even people who have never dealt with them know what “lousy,” “nit-picking” and “going through with a ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Many parents have heard about super lice which are tougher to get rid of. They're not as scary as they sound, but they have become pesticide resistant. The good news is there ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 7 -- Head lice appear to fall prey to heavy-duty blow-drying just as well as to chemical treatments and more so than to louse combs, researchers here said. For children with ...

Back in the '80s, I was part of a generation of schoolchildren who lined up in front of the nurse's office to have our little noggins checked for lice. The nurses used elongated toothpicks to part our ...

My house is clean and generally presentable. I bathe my children regularly using soap and vigorous scrubbing. We wear freshly laundered clothes. We are not filthy people. Which makes this next part ...

They're small, creepy and suck your blood. Every parent dreads it, but it's inevitable -- the "lice letter." Though a lice infestation is about as common as a cold, trying to rid your life of them can ...

Bad news for parents of school-aged children, those run-of-the-mill lice from the ’80s and ’90s have upped their game. While the newly mutated “super lice” have most parents shaking in their boots, ...

The dreaded “L” word. Those nasty little bugs that thrive on scalps and make parents whisper in school hallways. Anyone can contract lice, even if they’re super clean, so don’t feel ashamed if your ...