Electric lice combs have been on the market since the early 2000s — but there still isn’t a version out today that can compete with fine-toothed metal and plastic lice combs.

Use a fine-toothed metal comb on hair that’s slick with conditioner to fine lice. “The control of head lice should focus on the head, not on the environment,” researchers wrote in 2010 ...

The best type of comb for removing lice and nits is a fine-toothed metal comb. The teeth of the comb should be close together to ensure that all lice and nits are removed from the hair.

Q. Friends have called in a panic about treating lice. Their 6-year-old daughter brought them home from summer camp. When I was a girl, my parents used kerosene, but I hated it. These folks are rel… ...

Experts say the best way to remove lice is the comb-out method. After wetting hair, Fisher advised parting it into small sections and then combing each section several times using a fine-tooth ...

While some types of hair dry may kill live head lice, it does not remove their eggs. You likely need to remove nits with a fine-toothed comb.

Dead or dying lice, again, can be removed with a fine-toothed comb or your fingernails. With pubic lice, you should warn all sexual partners from the previous month that they're at risk for infection.

Use the fine-toothed comb to carefully look through your hair and comb out the dead head lice and any nits (eggs) that you can find. It’s critical that you take your time and are diligent with ...

Visual inspection of the hair and scalp is widely practiced, but this approach may miss three quarters of infestations detectable by combing hair with a fine-toothed “nit,” or detection, comb ...

Experts say the best way to remove lice is the comb-out method. After wetting hair, Fisher advised parting it into small sections and then combing each section several times using a fine-tooth ...