Nit and Lice Identification

Nit and Lice Identification Service

This is worth doing, if you still are not sure what you are looking at after you read the educational information below.



Close to actual size head lice and nitsClose to Actual Size adult    head louse, nymph, and nits photo

Magnified lice and nits. Please look well above this photo to see the photo of "close to actual size" head lice and nits

Sometimes, nits (head lice eggs) are incorrectly identified at school or daycare and in doctor’s offices.

Read below the true story of a mother who used this service and found out that she needlesslyspent 5 years of her life – and her daughter’s life – frantically fighting DEC plugs
( common, non-problematic fatty gobules from the scalp).

Did you know? Almost every ‘nit’ that has been sent, has been a nit look-alike .

How to send suspects/samples:

1. Remove 3 or 4 hair strands with the suspected nits

2. Put in a ziplock bag and put in mail!

3. Be sure to include your name and phone number and area code – and or email address.

Not sure if the bugs you are seeing are head lice? Send them along too.
Do your best to include any nits (lice eggs).

Mail envelope to:

Karen Tilley
P.O. Box 510021
Kealia HI
96751-0021


Please send a donation of  $15 with your samples. Please include email, or phone # and I will call you right away, after I have looked at your specimens.

Thank you!
Karen

Phone Consultations
Not so Lousy, but Lousy anyway ….True Stories

I had a 10 minute phone consultation with a woman a while back, who for five years had been in a war against ‘nits’ in her daughter’s hair.
She had been told 5 years ago, that those white oval things glued in her daughter’s hair were nits – and they certainly look that way to the untrained eye.
So…
The woman had spent the first two years in her ’5 year phantom lice war’ using the
head lice pesticides on her daughter (yes, Two YEARS of poisoning).
For the last three years, she had switched to natural non-pesticidal lice treatments.

She had been nitpicking her daughter’s head for 5 years, and doing loads of laundry and linen changing.
I was able to ascertain over the phone, in a very short space of time,
that she had been misdiagnosed from the very start.
What a shame.

True Story Two:
At the end of a seminar I was giving, a woman came up to me with her 7 year old girl, and showed me the nits in her daughter’s hair.
They were not nits. (She had been putting pesticides on the child’s head for 6 months.)
What a shame.

True Story Three
November 19, 2003 Kauai, Hawaii – Mom calls me. Her doctor was unsure if the things in the girl’s hair are nits.
However, he prescribes a prescription-only - very strong – 5% Permethrin lotion – for Scabies (itch mites).
(Read about that here)
She is unsure it they are nits or not… as she has had experience with head lice in the past.
She applies it on her 9 year old daughter’s head.
She repeats the the application of pesticide again 7 days later.
She sends me the ‘nits’. They are not nits.
Mom was right in the first place – the girl had no nits.

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