With the return to school, lots of you may be hearing people talking about head lice and nits, but what do we actually know about them?

Head lice are tiny insects that can live on the skin covering your head (your scalp). Lice spread by close contact with other people or sharing items with lice on them. They are more common in close ...

A head lice diagnosis is neither a health hazard nor a sign of poor hygiene, and children should not miss school because of it, new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics states. Instead, ...

The itchiness, irritation, and the incessant scratching caused by the small bugs on your scalp and hair make head lice a nuisance at best and at worst, well—they’re the worst. Head lice feed on blood ...

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

A worrying 98% of nits in America are now resistant to the over-the-counter head lice treatments, according to new evidence. The boom of the “super nit” in the USA is becoming an increasing concern ...

The back-to-school season, as exciting and relieving as it can be for parents, also means the start of the dreaded lice infestations. It's estimated that around 12 million cases of head lice ...

Head lice might not be able to jump, but the number of people seeking advice on head lice and nits from the NHS website certainly did, as children in England returned to school at the start of ...

There is no need to send kids with head lice home from school, according to new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). In the United States, head lice are most common among preschool ...

September is Head Lice Prevention Month-an excellent time to educate parents, children and the community about head lice. Accurate information including accurate detection can help prevent as well as ...

While it's most people's worst nightmare to get head lice, Stacey Jolicoeur admits it's an "occupational hazard" in her line of work. Jolicoeur has spent the past decade removing nits and has even ...

Back in the '80s, I was part of a generation of schoolchildren who lined up in front of the nurse's office to have our little noggins checked for lice. The nurses used elongated toothpicks to part our ...