If you talk to most young people with long hair between the ages of 7-17, most of them will say they wear their hair down 95% of the time. And when you share with them, that wearing your hair up is the best way to reduce your chances of picking up lice from your friends and your peer group, they give you a withering look. Such a conversation was the impetus for these photos, post lice treatment. They exhibit what I like to call, the curtain of opportunity. It is really impos

Teenagers don't get lice. People with short hair don't get lice. We really need one of those red 'NO' buzzers in the clinic. But truthfully, one of us would probably get tennis elbow from hitting it all day long as we dispel the misconceptions stated above. Teenagers indeed can and DO get lice. People with short hair can also get lice. In fact, they can be the ones who bring lice into the household. In this day and age, we have to let go of that old idea that the pre-K to 5th

Lice vary in size based on age, but not really in color; they are always translucent.