No, You Don’t Have to Bulldoze Your House After Head Lice
You may have heard of parents frantically cleaning their home after discovering a child has head lice—washing every linen, shampooing pets, bagging and quarantining pillows and stuffed animals for weeks, even throwing away things for fear of contamination. These steps aren’t all necessary and understanding how lice live and spread can give you peace of
How Kansas City Clinic Owners Became the Go-to Lice Resources in the City
Sisters Susan Truluck and Cherie Parker have done more than open three successful Lice Clinics of America clinics in the Kansas City area, they’ve started a movement. Their #BeLiceFreeinKC campaign has put them on the medical map in the city as a go-to resource when it comes to head lice, and they’ve done so by
Dietician Fights Head Lice at Wisconsin Clinics
A friend’s daughter with head lice triggered painful memories for Laurie Moyer. “I remembered dealing with head lice with my daughters three times when they were in the second and third grades,” she said. “Once you have had lice in your household and you find out other parents are dealing with an outbreak, you want
New York Clinic Manager Uses Education to Grow Business
How do you grow from one to three successful clinics in less than a year? For Jesse Curatolo, manager of the clinics in Rockville Centre, Scarsdale, and Syosset, New York, the key has been education. “It’s all about breaking the cycle of lice,” Jesse said. “I explain to parents that if they don’t contact the
LICE CLINICS OF AMERICA RANKED A TOP FRANCHISE IN ENTREPRENEUR’S HIGHLY COMPETITIVE 40TH ANNUAL FRANCHISE 500
Salt Lake City, Utah Lice Clinics of America recently ranked for the first time in Entrepreneur magazine’s Franchise 500®, the world’s first, best and most comprehensive franchise-ranking list. Placement on the Franchise 500® is a highly sought-after honor in the franchise industry, as evidenced by the fact that Entrepreneur received more than 1,000 applications this year, making
Science and Medicine Have Come Together to Beat Head Lice with New FDA-Cleared Technology
Lice Clinics of America’s AirAllé device gives parents a fast, clean, safe solution to the age-old problem For decades, head lice have been associated with poor hygiene and treated in secret due to the high “yuck” factor, though the hygiene connection was disproven long ago by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Salt
Hugs Not Bugs This February
Love is everywhere in February as many people around the world celebrate Valentine’s Day. Stores are filled with heart-shaped merchandise in the form of cards, chocolates, balloons, and other sentimental stuff to shower on that special someone. In recent years, a new movement has developed around Valentine’s Day. It’s called the International Random Acts of
How to Stay Lice Free in 2019
For decades, the standard of care for head lice has focused on reactive treatment using pesticide-based products. Head lice were associated with poor hygiene or dirty homes, and mortified parents treated the condition in secret, often to no avail. That’s changing as the medical and educational communities have taken steps to bring head lice out
Your Post Holiday Head Lice Checklist
No one wants to deal with head lice, especially after a hectic and stressful holiday period. Parents have enough on their hands with the travel, entertaining, shopping, and cleaning everything up into the new year. Unfortunately, the holidays are a peak time for head lice, so it’s important to be aware. This is especially true