YOU’VE BEEN TREATED & ARE NOW LICE-FREE!

• Itching after treatment is common for 10-14 days. Lice bites are the same as mosquito bites, but much smaller.  Therefore, itching is an after-effect of lice bites, and applying heat to those bites during treatment causes the itching to increase for some time.
• Since itching is a lingering symptom of lice bites, post-treatment itching is NOT a symptom of active lice. Unless you see LIVE lice bugs in the hair (not nits/eggs), it's safe to assume that the itching is left over from before the treatment.

Option 1):   Wash hair several times with regular shampoo to get the oil out.  If you think it’s not coming out, keep trying – it WILL come out.

Option 2): Add some dishwashing soap.  This should get the oil out with a single wash, when a small amount is added to shampoo. *Note: Dish soap will also strip hair dye. Use at your own risk, or if hair is not dyed.

Option 3): Head and Shoulders.  We have been told by many customers that Head and Shoulders shampoo is very good at getting the oil out AND helps with post-treatment itching due to hydrating the scalp.

Option 4): Use a clarifying shampoo. This helps to break down the grease in just one wash.

• It is expected that you will have some nits left in your hair after treatment. The focus of our treatment (and our guarantee) is to KILL all the nits and lice on the head.  To completely remove every nit from the head typically requires a multiple hour comb-out, which is not part of our treatment process.  Therefore, unless you see LIVE bugs in the hair, you can assume that all the nits are no longer viable (dead).
• There are several ways you can facilitate removing the dead nits: 1) Continue to use a nit comb over the next ten days throughout the entire head. 2) Every time you shampoo, rub your scalp vigorously; this will help break apart and dislodge the nits.
• NOTE: Nits/eggs that “pop” when  squeezed between fingernails does NOT indicate that the nits/eggs are “alive.”  This is a widely perpetuated lice-myth or Wive's Tale.

• The ONLY reason a re-check would be necessary is in the event you are seeing live bugs.  It is NOT necessary to come back to the clinic for a re-check “just to make sure” the treatment worked.
• If you would like a re-check, we offer them for $25/person. If the re-check occurs within the 30-day guarantee window AND is determined that the treatment was ineffective for any reason, we will waive the re-check fee and re-treat for free.

• Girls: wear hair as high & tight as possible. Tight hair equages to less surface area for a louse to latch onto your head.
• Be aware of any situation where you may have head-to-head contact with others, or if you use things that may have touched other peoples’ heads/hair. Do your best to avoid those situations.
• DO NOT, under any circumstances, put anything in your hair or on your head that has touched someone else’s head.
• Do periodic combing with a nit comb.
• Spray essential oil spray on your head anytime you go into a situation where there may be a high risk of lice exposure.