It’s hard to avoid close proximity at crowded venues. The problem is that head lice love being in close contact in limited spaces because it gives them the opportunity to move from one nice clean head to another. Lice love clean hair and can crawl from one seat or shoulder or jacket to another. It’s crucial to be prepared if you discover head lice in your group. Immediate lice treatment is essential because the more nits lice lay, the more severe a lice infestation will become and the easier spread to others.

Lice are Stubborn Foes

It’s important to find lice treatment help as soon as possible after discovering lice bugs because if live lice are left untreated, they can lay thousands of nits (eggs) within days. Although lice (bugs) die due to dehydration within two days if they are not feeding on their human host, adult lice can live for 30 days and a female can lay about 8 to 10 eggs (nits) a day, attaching them firmly to the hair with a glue like substance to the hair shaft close to the scalp. The glue-like substance is not water-soluble making the nits difficult to remove. That means an effective lice treatment requires meticulously picking nits off the hair shafts by hand.

Lice Treatment Options

The first time a family faces a lice infestation parents may opt to attempt lice treatment on their own. Often the process becomes too overwhelming, particularly if they have severe cases of lice. If they try lice treatment alone, parents may be tempted to buy one of the toxic over-the-counter products that have been the “go-to” treatment products for many years. But these products don’t work well because lice have become resistant to the harsh chemical ingredients. If attempting lice treatment at home, parents should be sure to look for the 100% all-natural, non-toxic lice treatment products such as Jolis Cheveux by LTC™ and LTC’s new Lice Insurance™ Lice Treatment Kit. These all-natural, non-toxic lice treatment products are available online and in specialized pharmacies and salons. If these products are used properly for at least 10 days and –most essential–combined with meticulous nit-picking, parents may be able to do a successful lice treatment. Jolis Cheveux by LTC™ lice treatment shampoo, lice treatment conditioner and olive oil lice treatment are used by Lice Treatment Center’s professional lice treatment technicians who provide the kind of meticulous in-home and on-site lice treatment services needed to eliminate lice infestations. Thousands of families across the United States depend on LTC’s lice treatment products and services.

If a family discovers lice while away from home, however, they should try to find professional help as soon as possible. On-site lice treatment is available from coast to coast. For instance, Lice Treatment Center’s effective professional, on-site lice treatment services are available 24/7 in 19 states.

Finding a Professional “Nit Picker”

Because they are being invited into a client’s home and are usually treating young children, a professional lice treatment technician or “nit picker” must be employed by a qualified lice treatment services company such as Lice Treatment Center (LTC). LTC carefully screens and trains its technicians in a pediatrician-designed protocol. The LTC nit pickers are selected for their professionalism, patience and empathy toward often highly stressed children and/or families. LTC nit pickers bring all the products (Jolis Cheveux™ brand) and tools needed to assess the entire family and household then treat those infested.

The professional nit picker inspects the infested person’s scalp and hair—section by section. Nit pickers look for live lice and nits, and by hand, remove live bugs and, especially, the lice eggs (or nits). It’s a hard, time consuming and tedious job. Nit-picking requires excellent eyesight—and a magnifying lamp—to see the nits that are often microscopically small. Nit-picking takes a long time. If a whole family has lice, nit picking should be done several times a day in order to find any new lice that have crawled onto the hair from somewhere or someone else. Though it is hard work, nit picking is crucial to effective head lice treatment. A professional nit picker will hand remove nits—one by one—getting rid of them all.

Nit picking is the most effective way to ensure effective lice treatment, it’s a very tedious process. And most parents don’t have the time to inspect every hair on their childrens’ heads for signs of nits or lice and then remove them manually, they often opt to call for a professional nit picker to do the job. Professional nit pickers can do that hard work and make sure that all lice and nits are removed. Professional nit pickers also recommend the most effective protocols and preventive products to avoid future infestations.

Most parents hate treating their kids for lice…especially they hate being a nit picker. Some boys are given buzz cuts and girls get long hair cut in order to prevent lice. However, meticulous nit picking is still necessary so no tiny, almost invisible, nits remain attached to the hair shafts. A professional nit picker uses a magnifying lamp to help spot the tiny eggs. Nonetheless, even the most meticulous nit picker may miss a microscopic nit during the initial treatment. Therefore, effective aftercare is critical. Aftercare treatment comprised of daily inspecting, oil applications and treatment shampoos and combing and nit picking must be continued for at least 7-10 following a lice treatment.

Lice Treatment Options

The two basic choices for treating a lice problem include 1) trying to get rid of the lice themselves or 2) calling in a reputable lice removal service like the Lice Treatment Center LLC. Parents who try to solve the problem themselves using the widely sold and usually toxic over-the-counter lice treatment products quickly become frustrated. Treating lice is an exhausting and, most often, unsuccessful, experience for someone not used to the process. Therefore, the option of calling a qualified lice removal service that will send only professionally trained lice technicians to conduct the treatment is often the favorite choice.

Professional Lice Removal Service

A professional lice removal service must be carefully selected. Not only are the technicians being invited into one’s home, but they are usually treating children. Lice Treatment Center (LTC), a highly qualified, experienced lice removal service, is staffed by lice technicians who are trained in a pediatrician-designed protocol. These technicians are also selected for their professionalism, patience and empathy toward often highly stressed children and/or families. LTC technicians bring all the products and tools needed to evaluate the entire family and home environment then treat infested family members using the Jolis Cheveux by LTC ™ line of all-natural, non-toxic lice treatment products.

An excellent lice removal service like LTC, will send a technician promptly to the client’s home—usually within a few hours of the request. Once at the client’s home, the LTC lice removal service technician will conduct head checks of all family members and treat those with lice. Each LTC treatment, for instance, begins with a shampoo using the non-toxic, all-natural Jolis Cheveux™ lice treatment shampoo, which is left it in for about 20 minutes. Following the shampoo, the technician sections the hair into very small (1/8 in) segments. Because the shampoo will kill the bugs, but will not kill the lice nits (the eggs), removing them by combing and picking them out is critical. Therefore, using a combing solution, the lice removal service technician will carefully comb through every section of hair and meticulously pick out dead bugs and nits (eggs). Once the bugs and nits are removed, the lice removal service technician will apply lice treatment oil to the scalp. This protocol should be followed as aftercare for 7-10 days.

The LTC lice removal service technician also helps make sure the household is lice-free, instructing the client how to treat bed linens, towels and clothing: put all into a hot dryer for 20 minutes. Hats, scarves, sporting equipment and pillows are treated the same way. The Lice Treatment Center also offers professional in-house lice removal service to help get the client’s home free of lice quickly.

The Lice Treatment Center (LTC) offers a comprehensive line of products for hair lice formulated by co-owner Elin Cohen, a well-know, board certified pediatrician and lice treatment specialist. In formulating and testing LTC’s line of products for hair lice, Dr. Cohen extensively researched the most effective approaches to achieving a comprehensive system for treating head lice.

The most common products for hair lice treatments are pyrethin- or permethrin-based shampoos and rinses, such as Nix and Rid. These treatment products for hair lice are toxic and may seep into the scalp. In fact, many strains of head lice are resistant to these products. Additionally, it is recommended that consumers use these products for hair lice only once a week. So, if an infestation is severe and cannot be controlled with one treatment, the user is “out of luck.” On the other hand, Jolis Cheveux by LTC™ line of products for hair lice are all-natural and non-toxic and have been proved very effective in eliminating both live (or adult) lice and their nits (or eggs). And because they contain natural and organic essential oils such as peppermint oil, lavender, lemon grass, etc., they have a pleasant odor and are excellent hair conditioners. Although tea tree oil has been found to be effective in treating head lice, there have been studies linking excessive use of this ingredient to growth of breast buds in boys and girls. So, LTC limits the amount of tea tree oil in its Jolis Cheveux™ and Lice Insurance™ products for hair lice, especially in the prevention products designed for everyday use.

If you read the label of almost all other brands of products for hair lice…either treatment or prevention products…what is the first ingredient listed? Water. But, if you read the labels on LTC’s Jolis Cheveux by LTC™ and Lice Insurance ™ products for hair lice treatment or prevention, the first ingredient is organic aloe juice followed by a list of natural ingredients and essential oils. This means that LTC’s all natural ingredients are not diluted and, therefore, will work faster to help treat and prevent head lice. LTC’s prevention products for hair lice are formulated to be safe for use everyday where children may be exposed to head lice. LTC’s treatment products are safe for use every day for a full week following a treatment to prevent re-infestation.

LTC’s line of hair lice products includes its Jolis Cheveux™ environmental sprays—Helmet Spray, Bunk Spray, Fabric and Upholstery Spray—have been formulated to specifically deter and kill head lice. Helmet Spray is the most potent formula and can be used to keep all shared sports equipment—hats, helmets, mat—lice free. Bunk Spray, our second strongest environmental spray keeps camp facilities and housing lice free. And our Fabric and Upholstery Spray is formulated to repel and kill lice on fabrics. It can be taken to the movies and airplanes and trains for use on any shared fabric surface.

Where to Watch Out for Lice in Los Angeles
Parents of small children should be on-guard for possible infestation of lice in Los Angeles. Little kids love to wrestle, play on floors, on comfy hotel chairs and amusement park cars. But, beware, lice can lurk in all sorts of places. Families who plan to travel should prepare themselves with lice prevention products for potential exposure to lice on planes, trains, busses and taxis. They must take care using rented or borrowed equipment where lice may lurk. Bike and roller blade helmets, sun hats and life jackets are a favorite spots for the critters to move from one head or one kid to another Most of all, parents should know where to seek treatment for lice in Los Angeles and even when they get home.

Prevention: Avoiding Head Lice in Los Angeles

The saying, “An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure,” is true when it comes to avoiding lice in Los Angeles. Anyone who has dealt with the difficult and painstaking process of removing hundreds of lice and nits from childrens’ or adults’ hair, can attest to the truth of that saying. Regular use of 100% all-natural, non-toxic lice prevention products such as Jolis Cheveux by LTC™, which is available online and in specialized pharmacies and salons, will safely keep lice from invading their home. Products such as prevention shampoos, conditioners, leave-in hair tonics and fabric and upholstery sprays for sofas, chairs and mattresses help defend against exposure.

If Your Family Needs Head Treatment for Lice in Los Angeles
Although an infestation of head lice is not dangerous it is annoying, irritating and often a traumatic and embarrassing experience for the whole family. However, effective professional treatment for lice in Los Angeles is readily available. Discreet professional lice technicians will arrive at your vacation home, your hotel or guest facility with all the necessary tools and all-natural products to treat the whole family and advise on safe removal of lice from home and automobile–including protocols for cleaning bedding, toys, fabrics, furniture, etc. With scrupulous professional lice treatment and nit removal plus diligent aftercare by the family, your home and family can effectively and quickly provide treatment for lice in Los Angeles.

Strategies to Locate Effective Lice Treatment

It’s hard to avoid close proximity if you are sharing accommodations. That would be okay if only head lice didn’t love being up close and persona. Lice love it when close contact limited space gives them the opportunity to move from one nice clean head to another. They love crawling from one scarf, hat or parka hood to another. So, be sure you are prepared should that kind of exposure to head lice results in a lice infestation in your group and the need for emergency lice treatment.

Lice Treatment Options

To take on a lice infestation, parents can attempt lice treatment on their own or seek professional help. If they try it alone, parents must be sure to buy 100% all-natural, non-toxic lice treatment products such as Jolis Cheveux by LTC™ and LTC’s new Lice Insurance™ Lice Treatment Kit. These all natural, non-toxic lice treatment products are available online and in specialized pharmacies and salons. Jolis Cheveux by LTC™ lice treatment shampoo, lice treatment conditioner and olive oil lice treatment are the same lice treatment products used by Lice Treatment Center’s professional lice treatment technicians who provide the kind of meticulous in-home and on-site lice treatment services needed to eliminate lice infestations. Thousands of families across the United States depend on LTC’s lice treatment products and services.

If while on vacation, you have to find professional help, on-site lice treatment is available from coast to coast. Lice Treatment Center’s effective professional, on-site lice treatment services are available 24/7 in 19 states. LTC’s discreet, professionally trained lice technicians will arrive at your location and provide expert lice treatment within a few hours of a call for service. The technician will arrive with all the tools and all-natural, non-toxic products needed to treat everyone in the group. Technicians will inspect the heads of everyone in the home in order to evaluate the level of infestation in the family. Once all active infestations are identified, the technician will provide lice treatments for each person. The technician will also provide advice on aftercare and safe removal of lice from luggage, clothing, home and automobile–including how to clean bedding, toys, fabrics, furniture, etc. Careful aftercare by everyone, will ensure highly effective lice removal.

What Does a Professional Nit Picker’s Do
A professional nit picker inspects the infested person’s entire scalp and hair– section by section. They will look for live lice and nits and then, by hand, remove live bugs and, especially, the lice eggs (or nits). It’s a hard, meticulous job. It’s time consuming and tedious. It requires extremely good eyesight—and a magnifying light to see the often microscopic eggs. Nit-picking takes an extremely long time. If several persons in the house were exposed to a lice infestation, nit picking should be several times a day in order to find any new lice that have crawled onto the hair from somewhere –another person’s hair, a piece of furniture, shared clothing or hair brushes or another item used by another infested person. Though difficult, nit picking is essential to effective head lice treatment. Professional and effective nit pickers will pursue nits and get rid of all of them.

Though nit picking is the most effective step in effective head lice treatment, it’s a very long process. Because most parents don’t have the time to search every strand of a child’s hair for any signs of nits or lice and manually remove lice from their children’s hair, they often call on professional nit pickers who will do that job for them. Professional nit pickers do all of the hard work needed to make sure that all lice and nits are removed. Professional nit pickers will to recommend the most effective preventive products and protocols to avoid future infestations.

Most parents are don’t like acting as a nit picker for their family. In fact, some parents will insist on giving boys buzz cuts or cutting a girl’s long hair in order to prevent lice. But, even on short the hair, meticulous nit picking will still be needed to make sure that no tiny, extremely difficult to see nits remain attached to the hair shafts. Professional nit pickers come to the home equipped with magnifying lights to help them spot those tiny residual eggs. But, even the most meticulous nit picker may not be able to get every last microscopic nit during the initial treatment. Effective aftercare is critical. Aftercare treatment comprise of of daily inspecting, oil applications and treatment shampoos and combing must be continued for at least 7-10 following a lice treatment.

It is most important to identify a truly qualified lice removal service that will send only professionally trained lice technicians to conduct the treatment. Parents should question any lice removal services they call to make sure their technicians are trained professionals. For instance, Lice Treatment Center LLC is a lice removal service that utilizes only technicians who are trained in physician designed protocol and who use only the all-natural, non-toxic products by Jolis Cheveux by LTC ™ . Experienced lice removal service professionals will bring the products and tools needed to assess the whole family as well as the home and treat any infested family members or guests in the home. Individual head checks involve a careful inspection of each person’s hair and scalp looking for live bugs and nits. If any are discovered, the technician will begin treatment using a proven lice treatment protocol.

An effective lice removal service, following identification of live lice or nits, will begin treatment by treating the hair with a lice treatment shampoo, massaging it thoroughly into the scalp and leaving it on for about 20 minutes. The hair will then be sectioned into 1/8 inch segments. The shampoo will kill the live bugs but does not kill the lice nits, so removing them by combing and picking them out is critical. The lice removal service technician, using a combing solution, will comb through each small section of hair and meticulously remove any dead bugs and nits (eggs). After the comb out, the technician condition and blow dry the hair. The technician will then repeat the sectioning and combing process until no lice or nits remain. Once the hair is clean, the lice removal service technician will apply lice treatment oil to the scalp and tie the hair back (if a girl). The oil will remain on the head until the next morning when the person treated must be thoroughly shampooed with the remaining treatment shampoo, conditioner applied, rinsed and blown dry. All those treated should follow the prescribed aftercare protocol for 7 days.

After shampooing and combing each person’s hair, the lice removal service technician will tell the family how to rid the home of lice. This includes putting all bed linens, towels and clothing into a hot dryer for 20 minutes or sealing them for several days in plastic bags. Also, home lice removal includes, washing or treating all hats, scarves, sporting equipment and pillows with lice deterring fabric and upholstery spray. Some lice removal services, such as Lice Treatment Center, offer an in-house lice treatment service designed to help your family get back to normal as soon as possible.

Why Call for an Professional Nit Picker’s Help?

An experienced nit picker inspects the child’s entire scalp and hair section by section, looking for live lice and nits and then manually removes live bugs and, especially, the lice eggs (or nits). It’s not an easy job.  It’s tedious, time consuming and requires the extremely good eyesight.  Nit-picking takes an extremely long time, and should be done at least three times a day to find any new lice that have crawled onto the hair from somewhere –another person’s hair, a piece of furniture, shared clothing or hair brushes or some other item used by another infested person. Even though it can be a tedious process, nit picking really is essential to effective head lice treatment. A good nit picker will pursue nits and get rid of all of them.
Though nit picking is the most effective step in effective head lice treatment, it’s a very long process. Most parents simply don’t have the time to search every strand of a child’s hair for any signs of nits or lice and manually remove lice from their children’s hair. That’s why there are so many professional nit pickers who will do that job for them. Professional lice pickers will do all of the dirty work needed to make sure that all lice and nits are removed. Professional nit pickers will also be able to recommend the most effective preventive products and practices available to avoid future infestations.

Some people are really hesitant about acting as nit pickers for their family. A lot of parents will insist on giving boys very short crew cuts or cutting a girl’s long hair in order to prevent lice. However, meticulous nit picking will still be needed on hair of any length because to make sure that no tiny, extremely difficult to see nits remain attached to the hair shafts.  Professional nit pickers will come to the home equipped with magnifying lights that enable them to spot those tiny residual eggs.  Even the most meticulous nit pickers may not be able to get every last microscopic nit during the initial treatment. That’s why aftercare treatment of daily inspecting, oil applications and treatment shampoos and combing must be continued for at least 7-10 following a lice treatment.

An outbreak of head lice at a school, can be both disruptive and traumatic for students, parents and teachers alike. Dealing with a lice infestation means lost instructional time for the teachers and lost learning time for the students. Carefully crafted lesson plans get disrupted and students get sent home until they are lice-free. Parents must deal with the impact of treating the home environment, checking and, if needed, treating the rest of the family. Because treating a lice infestation is so difficult, more and more parents are now turning to professional lice treatment companies to solve their problem.  This usually means an expensive lice treatment in which a professional lice technician (or nit picker), using specialized lice treatment products to kill live bugs, then meticulously hand picks dead lice and nits from every hair.  It is a long, tedious and pricey process. Following the treatment, the family must follow a careful aftercare protocol for at least 7-10 days to ensure successful elimination of all nits because if all nits are not killed and removed, another lice infestation can result.

Because lice infestations have such a dramatic impact on schools and families, lice prevention has become a priority in many public and private schools across the U.S.  School administrators seeking to reduce of eliminate the number of lice infestations in their schools are turning to professional lice prevention programs for assistance.

The wisdom of the old saying “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure…” is proven true when it comes to avoiding lice infestations. Schools determined to reduced or eliminate lice infestations are now contracting for lice screening services such as the school Lice Insurance™ program offered by the Lice Treatment Center (LTC). Schools participating in lice screening programs report that virtually all students undergoing regular, periodic head checks at school remain lice-free until the end of the school year. The first screenings of all students and faculty members are usually scheduled for the opening week of school. Then, subsequent screenings are scheduled immediately following  vacations –Thanksgiving and winter vacation, spring break and, sometimes, just prior to the end of the school year. These periodic lice inspections ensure that students don’t bring lice back to school with them after each vacation thus avoiding recurrent school-wide lice infestations. Single (emergency) lice head checks are conducted as requested.

Regular, professionally administered lice checks help ensure that the school will not be disrupted by lice infestations and that each student or faculty member remains free of head lice during the school year. Lice treatment companies confirm that the majority of “emergency” lice infestation calls are from parents of students who attend schools not participating in lice screening programs.  Those crises can be avoided if schools mandate quarterly lice head check sessions such as LTC’s Lice Insurance™ program.

Since most public school systems do not budget for lice screenings, parent teacher organizations (PTA/PTO) are spearheading the conducting of periodic head checks by contracting for discounted, parent-paid lice check services. Most schools that contract lice screening programs also arrange for discounted lice treatment services for students who are identified as having a lice infestation during a periodic screening.