Between 6 and 12 million children ages 3 through 11 get head lice every year in the U.S., according to an estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a lot of itching. If ...

Wrangling head lice, and the children they infest, must be up there with the most challenging duties a parent or caregiver has to face. Primary school-aged children, who seem to always be in close ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've ever parented elementary school-aged children, you know that a call you want to avoid is one from the school nurse ...

The Marker family opened their door on a recent evening in Parker, Colo., to a woman dressed in purple with a military attitude to cleanliness. Linda Holmes, who has worked as a technician with ...

Kids are back in school and some of them might be coming home with more than just homework. A woman known as the "Potomac Lice Lady" says there are a few things parents should know that can help if ...

CNN — (CNN) — Marianne had a phone call she would never forget. Her daughter’s preschool called and asked her to pick up her child because she had lice. As someone who had never dealt with lice ...

Wrangling head lice, and the children they infest, must be up there with the most challenging duties a parent or carer has to face. And the job is getting harder. Commonly used chemical products ...

Anecdotal reports about a global rise in head lice cases have prompted warnings from some experts about a popular and universal activity among children and teenagers: taking selfies. Head lice, itchy ...

The return to school is a danger zone for kids with nits on the loose, but this September, I’ll be checking my own hair as closely after I got head lice three times earlier this year. We had them ...