Holiday Head Lice Survival Guide
Everyone loves this time of year when you can relax and spend time with close friends and family. But with family visits and get-togethers, comes head to head contact…and with head-to-head contact, comes the risk of spreading head lice. You have worked hard all year, and we don’t want something like head lice to put a damper on your family’s holiday time together.
Follow these simple prevention techniques to ensure no uninvited head lice attend your holiday get-togethers this year.
How to tell the difference between head lice and fluff
In today’s blog post, I want to pass along a couple of quick tips to help you identify the difference between head lice and any other bits of matter that you may find in the hair and scalp of your family.
It is very common for me to walk potential clients through this process on the phone in order to help ensure that they truly have head lice before they hire us. Typically, they are very grateful (and relieved) when I walk them through this 2 minute exercise and it turns out that they simply have dandruff, or maybe have left over sand from a day at the beach. Not only are they relieved to quickly find out that they probably don’t have lice, but they also are happy to save a good bit of money and time.
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Head lice remedy or delicious salad dressing?
You know I have kids when I can quote the TV show “Full House.” Whenever I talk to someone that has been battling with head lice for a while and they start telling me about all of the crazy concoctions they have tried in their hair, and it reminds me of the below exchange between Jesse and Frankie Valli on an episode of Full House, where they compared tricks for beautiful hair:
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Back to school head lice prevention tips
Well, it is that time of year again… the summer is over. School buses are out and about, school zones are being enforced, and kids are back in the classroom. To help ensure you child remains free of head lice for this school year, follow these simple head lice prevention tips on a routine basis.
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Have a child coming home from summer camp? Check for head lice right away!
What a great and exciting day… you are waiting at the airport terminal anxious for your child that you haven’t seen in weeks to walk through those security doors. You make eye contact, and start running toward each other with arms wide open. You stick your foot out and trip your spouse to make sure you get the first hug, not them. Finally, after so many weeks away at camp, you get to embrace your child.
Unfortnutely, a sneaky little pest may have come through those security doors along with your child, and it only takes one hug hello to transfer from their head to yours…. Head lice!
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Top 10 criteria to help you hire the best head lice treatment service for your family
The phone rings, it’s the school… your child has head lice and you need to drop everything and pick them up ASAP. The panic begins… you immediately start to research head lice online, you are not sure if you should call your friends to let them know head lice is in the school (you should, by the way), go to the pediatrician’s office, or visit the drug store. Where do you turn? What do you do next?
The first thing to do is stay calm, and take a deep breath. Having head lice is not the end of the world. This is just one of life’s little bumps that you will get through (along with millions of other people every year). The second thing to do is determine how you are going to have your family treated for head lice. Your choices basically boil down to either treating your family yourself, or hiring a professional lice removal company.
In the event you decide to hire a professional lice removal company, you may have several to choose from in your area. To help you figure out how to choose the best service, below are the top 10 criteria to consider before hiring a lice treatment service:
LouseCalls' Summer Camp Head Lice Prevention Guide
School is amost out and before you know it, your kids will be heading off to summer camp. Unfortunately, head lice are just as excited to go to summer camp this year as your children.
Over the years, head lice has become more and more prevalent in summer camps, with most sleep away camps refusing to allow kids into camp that have head lice.
To help eliminate this summer time nuisance, LouseCalls reminds you to perform a simple head lice screening to your children prior to sending them to camp. It is the best prevention technique to reduce the risk of spreading head lice to friends, family, and fellow campers.
Here are some key screening tips:
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LouseCalls now serving the greater Tampa area with in-home head lice treatment services
After years of countless calls from frantic parents in the greater Tampa Bay area, desperate for our services, LouseCalls, Inc. is now officially offering our highly successful head lice removal and treatment services to the greater Tampa Bay area. This means that people now have an answer to their head lice headaches with fast, friendly, and efficient service…we call it working our magic! Read the official press release here:
Gasoline is for engines, not head lice treatment
We had a call just the other day where the person was getting ready to use gasoline as a head lice treatment remedy. I can’t stress strongly enough that no one should ever use gasoline, kerosene, or anything else flammable to try to eradicate their head lice infestation. This is an extremely dangerous practice, and has resulted in some very sad stories of people accidentally setting themselves on fire:
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Lice Lice Baby
Who says getting treated for head lice can’t be fun? Check out this video posted on youtube by one of our clients who’s child is rapping along with Vanilla Ice while receiving a head lice treatment from LouseCalls.
Wishing you ‘No More Louse-y Days!’
Amy