Black people are less likely than others to get head lice but definitely aren’t immune. Clearing up the myth is the first ...

Any parent who has a child at school will know (or will soon know!) the sheer frustration that can come with treating a head ...

Cleopatra, for example, was buried with solid gold lice combs, while other Egyptians would ... are about as large as a sesame seed, while baby lice, or nymphs, are a fraction that size.

But viewing the combs at 10 times normal size revealed their true purpose: Many still bore traces of the lice and nits they had extracted from someone’s tresses. In pre-Columbian times ...

Start with an over the counter shampoo, lotion, or cream. Use the lice comb that comes with the kit to help get them out of your child's hair. Check back 12 hours later and see if there are any lice.

Bugs in my baby’s hair? The thought gave me shivers ... get some conditioner and run a lice comb through — wipe the comb on a ...

So had to get them up again and get out the conditioner and the nit comb and go through their hair. “Lots of sobbing later and ta-dah - no head lice. I now have to sign and return a form to confirm ...

An engraving on an ancient lice comb might be the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet. The doubled-edged ivory comb, which was excavated in Israel, bears an engraved inscription ...