Involuntary head-shaving implicates both a patient's fundamental ... State demonstrated a compelling interest in treating Lila's lice infestation. We conclude that it did….

Head lice may be icky, but they aren't an immediate ... By the way, if your kid really wants to shave their head, that is an effective treatment. It’s by no means necessary, though.

Although head lice have evolved the ability to close their ... meet with low acceptance on the part of patients and parents. Shaving of the scalp has been proposed as a treatment option for ...

The lowdown on nit-picking, mayonnaise, and other treatments The only sure-fire way to ward off lice, Pollack says, is to shave your head. “Without hair, there's no way that a head louse could ...

Then my older kid started scratching. It turned out that about half his class had head lice. At our house, closer inspection revealed scuttling insects on both our scalps. We began an odyssey of ...

School is about to resume and with that, so does – cue the head scratch — the infiltration of lice in classrooms. While head lice doesn’t have a season per se it usually peaks when school ...

an unlucky few will likely bring home some unwanted guests – head lice. If you remember being sent home when the school nurse found lice in your hair, you might be surprised at the Centers for ...

Head lice move rapidly, traveling up to 23 cm/min, by grasping hairs and generally remaining close to the scalp (Ko & Elston, 2004). The female head louse lays eggs at night and can produce as ...