How to treat and prevent head lice

Millions of school-aged kids in the U.S. get head lice each year. It is a very common condition and lice can easily infect any child who is exposed.

“Head lice don’t discriminate,” says Dr. Pilar Bradshaw of Eugene Pediatric Associates. “Head lice will infect any kid. It’s very common in young kids all the way through teens. The real common denominator isn’t how clean you are, how you dress, who your friends are, anything about your kid. It’s simply contact. Lice can travel from one child to another quite easily.”