A professional response to Lice Questions:
headlice September 1st, 2008
I'd like to share a response I posted to a question I found on a message board today.
Bob, of North Carolina actually had a bunch of questions. His mom had lice, and he unwittingly used her hair brush. She had cleaned out the hair before he used it, and washed it with boiling water. Now, a month later, after using Rid, and a product called Lice-Free, he is still itching. He apparently itches a lot due to allergies, and has dandruff to boot. Bob wants to know how to tell the difference between dandruff and lice!
This is the response I posted:
The short answer: You probably have a very irritated head right now from all of the chemicals you used. Based on your original post, it is unlikely that you got lice after using a brush that was clean of hairs, and had boiling water poured over it.
The good news: Experience has shown us here at LICENDERS, that once someone is thinking about lice, they will feel itchy. This is NOT an indication that you have head lice!
The not so good news: If your mom treated her own head lice infestation with a chemical product like Rid, she may still have lice, and you could have caught it from her in a number of ways in the days or weeks that followed. The lice may have survived the treatment. They crawl from head to head very quickly. If every nit was not methodically combed out with an effective lice comb, those nits could have (even 7-10 days later) hatched into nymphs (baby lice), matured into lice, and continued the cycle on her head… and yours.
We have a lice removal service, in the New York Tri-State area. We sell the products that our clinicians use… because they do work. Lice become resistant to the chemicals in the products you used. Our products are 100% natural, safe, enzyme based, and chemical-free. We have a blog that has articles on lice facts, fiction etc. The link to the blog is on the bottom of the home page of our LICENDERS website.
Good Luck to you!
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