Lice Treatment After Care Instructions

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Thank you for choosing Knoxville Lice Clinic!  Here are your lice treatment after care instructions.

For All Treatment Services

  • A head check with Treatment Goop application is not a lice treatment, it only tells if you have lice. If you have lice but did not get a Saline Comb-Out or Headwinds treatment, you have not been treated for lice. 
  • Treatment Goop must be washed out with our Clarifying Shampoo or dish detergent. It will often take more than one wash. If you miss any, that’s ok! It will not harm your hair or skin. 
  • If Treatment Goop gets on fabric, it might stain. Pretreat it with dish soap before washing.  If it still shows a spot after the dryer, wash it again.
  • If someone finds live bugs less than 3 weeks after a Headwinds treatment or Saline Follow-up, it is a re-infestation. If someone who did not get checked or treated finds live bugs, they had lice before the rest of the family was treated. 

Who Needs to Know

  • Everybody! Some specific people to inform are the schools, your friends, your child’s friends, after school programs, day cares, sports teams, clubs, and child care. 
  • If you saw family or went on a vacation with anybody, let them know. 
  • If you had your hair done recently, let the hairdresser know. 
  • We can call businesses, sports teams, schools, and day cares. Give us the information and we will make sure they are informed, with your identity left out. 
  • Do not let your children play with or sleep over at any friend or family member’s house until they have confirmed they are lice free. You will get lice again. 

For Short Form Headwinds Treatments

  • You will itch! When we dehydrate the nits, we dehydrate your scalp. Our Nutrient Conditioner will help. In addition, washing out the Treatment Goop can cause dryness and itching. 
  • We do not do any sort of comb out. This is your responsibility.
  • Nits do not ever fall off hair. They will remain on your head until you comb them out at home. 
  • The nits are dead, and you are lice free. 
  • There is no discounted recheck offered, but an appointment can be made for a comb-out at $50 per half-hour.
  • We do not offer a guarantee on our Short Form treatment. 

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What is a Cosmetic Comb-Out?

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Our Full Service Lice-Tech Heated Air Treatment comes with a cosmetic comb-out, but what exactly does that mean? 

A cosmetic comb-out is:

  • Cosmetic only! We remove most of the nits for a cleaner look.
  • Our clinicians can usually remove about 90-95% of nits on the head in that single visit. 
  • This means that if you have more nits, you will have more nits left behind. 
  • The remaining nits are dead, and cannot hatch. 
  • Lice lay eggs at the base of the hair, against the scalp. Our combs cannot get underneath some of them. 
  • As the hair grows, these nits will become visible, usually 10 days to a few weeks post treatment. 
  • If you have a large amount of nits, or are from a nit-free school district, we offer extra combing at a rate of $50 per 30 minutes past your appointment time.
  • For our Full Service Lice-Tech Treatment clients, we offer additional single-pass comb-outs during the first 30 days post treatment.

A cosmetic comb-out is not:

  • Not a traditional comb-out.
  • Traditional combing is not necessary because all of the remaining nits are dead.
  • Not going to end the itching.  Your bug bites and dry scalp cause the itching and will resolve with time.  This is true for all methods of lice removal.  We even wrote a blog post about it!