Head lice

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Summer is a busy season for head lice because kids at summer camp and sleepovers are sharing beds, pillows, you name it.

Last year when Patricia Tomasi’s daughter got lice, her and her husband visited Lice Squad to have the whole family checked and treated.

Franchise founder, Dawn Mucci, is a head lice expert. “They’re contracted by making head to head contact or hair to item contact. So the good news is they don’t hop, jump or fly.”

Mucci suggests parents give their children a weekly check. Look around the ears, at the nape of the neck and the crown of the head. Eggs are brown, not white and stick to the shaft of the hair.

At Lice Squad, they use an electronic zapper to kill lice before massaging the hair with an enzyme shampoo. Then they comb through to physically remove the eggs. Head lice can only survive on the human head and they won’t stay alive in our environment but to make sure they don’t spread to anyone else, you should vacuum any areas your head might have touched and put bed sheets and stuffed animals in the dryer on high heat.

Lice is time consuming to remove, so prevention is key. Remind your children not to share brushes, hair accessories, hats or bedding.

Visit licesquad.com for more information