1 Infection with head lice is no reflection on personal hygiene.

2 What's the treatment for head lice?

3 What can I do to avoid catching head lice?

4 How can I get rid of head lice?

5 Keep a look out for head lice and treat if necessary.

6 And head lice can cause other, more serious infections if they are left untreated.

7 How do I know if my child has head lice?

8 Head lice are tiny insects which live in the hair and feed by biting the scalp and sucking blood.

9 Head lice are relatively common, particularly among children, and can cause itching, sometimes to the point of excoriation with risk for secondary infection.

10 Instead, the reporter might say, "The outbreak of head lice means that nurses like Mary Smith are seeing a lot more children than usual today."

11 To decrease the number of head lice episodes per unit of time, control measures should include the treatment of all household contacts.

12 We studied 132 children without head lice who lived in a slum in north-eastern Brazil.

13 To generate evidence on the effectiveness of household-wide treatment for preventing the transmission of pediculosis capitis (head lice) in resource-poor communities.

14 At 5 primary schools in which head lice infestation was epidemic, 304 students aged 6 to 12 years were evaluated for the presence of nymph, adults, and nits.

15 So scratching the scalp is usually the first sign that a child has head lice.

16 The evidence comes from seemingly very unfashionable lice, since scientists tracked when head lice evolved into clothing/body lice around 170, 000 years ago.

17 Malathion is a type of insecticide that works well against head lice.

18 Mass treatment with ivermectin may reduce the incidence of head lice infestation and associated morbidity in resource-poor communities.

19 In an impoverished community, girls and the poorest of the poor are the population groups that are most vulnerable for head lice infestation.

20 Children in the intervention group remained free from infestation with head lice significantly longer than children in the control group.

21 Ivermectin is known in the developed world primarily as a drug to treat head lice in children and heartworm in animals.

22 When quizzed as to why he cut off his famous blond hair, Robert - who is dating his 'Twilight' co-star Kristen Stewart - claimed it was due to an infestation of head lice.

23 The safety and effectiveness of Benzyl Alcohol Lotion, 5%, was demonstrated in two studies of 628 people, 6 months of age and older, with active head lice infestation.

24 In addition, the human is at the same time there are head lice pubis and the only primates.

25 Prioderm lotion contains the active ingredient malathion , which is an organophosphorous insecticide that kills parasites such as head lice, pubic lice and scabies mites.

26 After treatment with ivermectin, the estimated number of annual episodes of head lice infestation was reduced from 19 to 14 in girls and from 15 to 5 in boys.

27 These nits are one of the biggest problems with head lice infestations.

28 The goal of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of visual inspection vs wet combing in the detection of head lice infestation.

29 If you are, there will likely come a point in time when your child develops head lice .

30 In this article, we'll answer more of the questions that people have about head lice .

31 Below are some simple home remedies for head lice that will make your head lice free.

32 Human head lice are related genetically to lice on chimpanzees, and the two species began to diverge as humans and chimps diverged.

33 The newly targeted chemicals include products that are widely used in pesticides and flame-retardants, and in a number of other commercial uses, such as a treatment for head lice.