Seattle lice removal | Nitwit Lice Removal

Available to help you right now

admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:47:49 +0000

For $15, you can call or text me right now and get started on the road to safely and sensibly treating your family’s head lice problem. No gimmicks, no sales, and no pressure – just simple, solid information you can use both now, and in the future. Get started today: 206-327-5782, 7 days a week, [...]

Affordable, effective, safe, and convenient

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:54:50 +0000

When your family is faced with lice, you have the option of paying someone to deal with the problem for you, but here’s the thing: You’ll likely get lice more than once, so you’ll just have to pay them again. And again, most likely.

Can you afford it in the first place? How about in [...]

Seattle lice education and training – free workshops

admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:51:08 +0000

Come to a series of free workshops I’m hosting at local branches of the Seattle Public Library. Get your questions answered, take home a free educational brochure, and learn how you can deal with head lice on your own, at home, for free. Dates and locations are as follows:

Ballard Public Library: Monday, March 26, [...]

Are head lice repellents effective?

admin — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:45:39 +0000

There are many, many products on the market right now that claim to repel lice. Before you buy, here’s what you need to know.

The purpose of repellents is simple. They hope to either:

Irritate the louse, and prevent it from moving quickly. Discourage biting, so that the louse refuses to bite the treated portion [...]

My son has lice

admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:55:39 +0000

My poor little lovely boy came home last week with head lice. Thought you’d get a tickle out of the whole affair.

The kids and I and their father are gathered together on the couch, having our family meeting. These family meetings have become the cornerstone of our day, a predictable, reliable way for the [...]

Lice in the news

admin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:03:53 +0000

Marketwatch by the Wall Street Journal has posted a story about the “rise of the lice business,” and featured Larada Sciences and its Lousebuster techie-tool for fighting lice. But since the piece was simply the press release issued by Larada, let me paint for you the other side of the story.

As a press release, [...]

Lice treatment guarantees

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:53:08 +0000

When it comes to lice treatment guarantees, the promise that you can treat your head lice one time and be done is a risky idea, and may even be leading to continuing lice outbreaks at your school. Walking away and not giving it a second thought — relying on faith alone [...]

Authoritative articles on lice

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:25:51 +0000

Got my editor’s hat on today, and had to share this piece of information in an online article posted on Parenting.com which helps readers to understand the symptoms of lice. I sympathize with the person trying to understand nits, if this is what they understand from the article!

Nits. The tiny un-hatched lice eggs are [...]

Why no-nits policies are no-good

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:01:10 +0000

Back in 2010, Time Magazine reported on the new recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics, backed up by the Harvard School of Public Health: no-nits policies are unfair, unrealistic, ineffective, and unnecessary, and here’s a pesky thing: no-nits policies have never been proven to lower overall infestation rates.

Surpised?

The fact is that since [...]

How big is a louse?

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:00:12 +0000

One of the more frustrating parts of treating lice – okay, the most frustrating part – is that these little creeps are small. As in, ridiculously small. So how small is ridiculously small? Well, when you calculate their ratio to the size of one finger, that ratio is 1:38. A total of thirty-eight adult louse [...]