What are head lice?

What are head lice?

Marilyn Sherlock (Trichologist) gives expert video advice on: How do you treat head lice? and more...

Head lice are parasites and they're unpleasant parasites. They're very prolific at the moment and have been actually for several years. They feed on blood from scalp. Many people find that they have a stigma attached to this, that the child - because it's usually children that have this problem - is dirty. This is not the case. The head lice will attach themselves to any head of hair whether it's clean or dirty. In fact, it actually prefers clean hair because it's easier to get through to the scalp, to the skin and to the blood, eventually, than it is on a dirty head.