The Atlanta clinic told Brown and her mother the next steps for training, and by January of 2016 the two opened a clinic in Tupelo, and then opened the Germantown facility in May 2016. “I looked at my mom and said, ‘We have to do this.’”
“I was sitting in the airport in Atlanta, and Googling how to get rid of this awful thing, when I saw the website for Lice Clinics of America,” Brown said.
“We move the device across each section of the scalp and hold it there for 30 seconds, basically dehydrating and killing the nits.”īrown got the idea for starting up a clinic after her own lice debacle with her kids. “AirAlle uses controlled heat to kill the nits (eggs),” said Parker Kennedy, who manages the Germantown clinic. “We use a treatment called AirAlle, which dehydrates the eggs and kills it, a one-and-done deal.”ĪirAlle (pronounced air-a-lay) is an FDA-approved medical device that kills lice and 99.2 percent of eggs in a single one-hour treatment. “Over-the-counter drugs can be an 8- to 14-day ordeal, and there isn’t even a guarantee that will do the job,” said Marty Brown, owner of the Lice Clinics of America locations in Tupelo and Germantown. Marty Brown started the business, which has its original location in Tupelo, Missisippi, after her children had a frustrating bout with head lice.įortunately, there is a Lice Clinics of America franchise located in Germantown and they offer the only treatment proven to kill this itchy infestation. A state with a nice shade of yellow.The staff of Lice Clinics of America in Germantown. If your school nurse is recommend condiments for lice removal it’s time to transfer your children to a different school. “But I hear school nurses recommending them all the time.” Nothing is working on these little buggers, not even the usually infallible mayo! - “Olive oil, mayonnaise, Vaseline, these are all treatments I wouldn’t recommend,” Pediatric dermatologist Dr. That has nothing to do with lice it’s just time. Looks like we’re all shaving our heads tonight. My state? Freaking the hell out! I live in an orange state and have two kids in school who spend the day with some incredibly gross little children. Yellow states: 1 percent to 49 percent were resistant.īlue states: Data hasn’t been analyzed yet. Orange states: 50 to 90 percent of lice were resistant. Red states: 100 percent of the tested lice were resistant. Yoon and his staff collected 109 lice populations and 104 had high levels of gene mutations among all the states and the information collected helped to create this handy map. As soon as data is gathered, panic ensues. Yoon and his colleagues wanted to know how widespread these resistant strains were.Īnd RIGHT THERE is where shit went off the rails. Yoon was part of the research team that initially discovered the new ultra-resistant strains, publishing their results in August, 2015. Lice - and other insects - are increasingly becoming resistant to pyrethroids, the active ingredients in most OTC concoctions, according to Kyong Yoon, an assistant professor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsvillle. It doesn’t help that I’m living in one of the states with the most cases of super lice. I finished typing that headline and a second later my head began to itch uncontrollably.