If you have houseplants, you've probably noticed small white specks in the potting mix. Here's what they are, and how to know ...

How to Treat Super Lice. Lice should only be treated if there are active, live lice; simply finding nits isn’t enough. These could be a sign of already dead lice, which don’t need to be treated.

Lice don't spread the way you probably think they do. Here's what to know. As school starts back up, so does the number of head lice cases. But humans have been dealing with the parasites for ...

What do head lice look like? Head lice are small brown insects. Before you spot these, you may notice white specks in your child's hair – these are the empty egg cases (also known as 'nits'). Our ...

Head lice begin life as very small (about 0.5-millimeter-in-diameter) eggs called nits, which range in color from white to brown. Nits hatch into young lice called nymphs, which take seven to 10 ...

7 Bugs That Look Like Lice. We’ve found seven bugs that have lice-like bodies and sizes. Some things can help you distinguish them from each other. Keep reading to learn about each of them! 1.

In addition to being disturbing on a psychological level (I, for one, do not like the phrase “blood meal”), lice can cause intense itching; Logan, 5, another recent sufferer, described his ...

The email arrives on a Friday afternoon. The subject line is a three-word horror story: Lice at camp. “No,” I say, out loud, even though I am alone. I immediately flash back to last year, when ...

What Do Lice Look Like? These pests are a type of insect called a parasite. ... Nits, or lice eggs. They’re very tiny -- about half the size of a pinhead. They’re hard to see.

It usually takes about 10 minutes to comb short hair, and 20 to 30 minutes for long, frizzy or curly hair. Do wet combing on days 1, 5, 9 and 13 to catch any newly hatched head lice.