If death and taxes are the two certainties in life, a third one might as well be the presence of bugs in our life and the ...

Head lice come home with your children because they spend time in close contact with other children, hugging, playing or crowding around books or screens. Any head-to-head contact is a pathway for ...

Some prescription and over-the-counter treatments kill both the live lice and their eggs, also called nits. Other products require two applications, approximately 7 to 9 days apart.

Medically reviewed by Brendan Camp, MD Lice and dandruff cause similar symptoms, but they have different causes and treatments. Head lice are tiny parasites that live on the scalp and feed on blood.

9. If you find live lice after the second treatment has been done, then repeat steps 1 to 8 using a different product (with a different ingredient) to kill the lice. 10. If you continue to find live ...

The machines uses heated air and dehydration to kill lice and their eggs. Ella Meyer's family knows firsthand as well how hard it can be to get rid of lice.

Lice are crawling creatures and do not hop, jump or fly from head to head. Contact has to be direct, or by sharing items such as hats, combs, brushes, towels and other head accessories.

One major reason hair lice keep returning is that many treatments only kill the lice, not the eggs (called nits). These eggs hatch within 7 to 10 days, and the cycle begins again.

"At this point, most ways to kill lice and deal with their eggs just require a little bit of elbow grease," she said. Reach the writer at 402-473-7214 or [email protected].

The research into mutated lice still has to be independently evaluated, but it's not entirely surprising that over the years, over-the-counter medication may not be as effective as it once was.

They spoke of the cost of the treatments to kill lice and how it can add up if treating everyone in a household. Several teachers indicated they had contracted lice from students, as well.