Nit Picking The kids are off to school again and bringing home-head lice. Don't panic. A lousy head is not a sign of poor hygiene. These blood-sucking insects adore nice, clean heads and affect one in four school children each year, reports the Sierra Club of Canada.
An Itchy Start It's back-to-school time: New books, new clothes, new friends - and lots of new germs and bugs.
Feeling Lousy? The only major symptom indicating an infestation of Pediculus capitis is intense itchiness. Fortunately, there are safe, non-toxic remedies for evicting these unwelcome parasites we simply call head lice.
Tea Tree Oil vs. Head Lice Head lice, the most common communicable childhood disease except for the common cold, infests over 10 million North Americans, most of them schoolchildren, each year.
Eliminate Head Lice Naturally Right now there are approximately 41,500 Canadian children scratching their heads in unnecessary frustration, thanks to head lice. At any given time about two per cent of elementary school-aged children are infested in this country.
Head lice are tiny wingless parasites that live on humans.
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