LouseCalls® Holiday Head Lice Survival Guide
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Amy Graff (561) 376-1066
LouseCalls® Holiday Head Lice Survival Guide
For Immediate Release: Boca Raton, FL – November 23, 2009 – Don’t let head lice put a damper on your special Holiday time together with friends and family. With a little planning, awareness, and simple prevention techniques, you can help ensure no uninvited head lice will be attending your holiday get-togethers this year.
Would you ever think that holiday time is head lice time? Everyone loves this time of year when you can relax and spend time with close friends and family. But with family visits and get togethers, comes head to head contact…and with head to head contact comes the risk of spreading head lice. So, what can you do??? To help ensure the holiday season stays free from head lice, LouseCalls®, Inc., the head lice removal company that makes housecalls, wants to spread some common sense head lice prevention and awareness tips.
According to Amy Graff, owner of LouseCalls, “Holiday season is a time where head lice can easily be spread. Typically during the holidays, there is a lot of close hugging, picture taking, and people living in close quarters while visiting relatives. These are ideal situations for head lice to get passed from person to person.”
During the holidays, head lice can get passed from children-to-children, but also to people that normally are at low risk for head lice, such as grandparents or older family members who no longer have children at home.
“I remember last holiday season where I treated a 72 year old grandmother for head lice. She contracted it from her grandchildren, who had visited her during the holidays,” states Amy Graff. “She was itching like crazy for months, and was misdiagnosed by several dermatologists and hairdressers, never thinking it could be head lice in a grandma.”
Louse Calls arrived at the Grandma’s house within an hour of her calling, and quickly put an end to her endless torturous nights of itching. When Grandma fessed up to her long time friends that she had head lice, her friends confessed they had suffered from lice as well over the years, but never told anyone.
Holiday Head Lice Survival Guide Tips:
- Be on the lookout for friends and family members who seem to be scratching their heads often.
- Be aware of itching, scratching, or red bumps on the back of the neck or behind the ears after your holiday visits.
- Check yourself and your children for head lice prior to visiting relatives to eliminate the chance of passing an unwanted gift of head lice to a loved one.
- With people living in close quarters, it is common to share hats, coats and other clothing. Plan ahead and try to pack wisely to avoid the need to borrow from each other.
- Openly communicate if you recently had a head lice infestation. Head lice’s best survival technique is the fact that people don’t communicate that they have lice with each other.
- Use an all natural repellant spray or shampoo to help reduce the chances of contracting head lice.
Don’t let head lice be the holiday gift that people will be talking about for years to come! You can find out more head lice facts by visiting http://www.lousecalls.com.
LouseCalls wishes everyone a happy, healthy and lice free holiday season.
About LouseCalls, Inc.:
LouseCalls mission is to help families and schools get their life back to normal in a friendly, confidential and educational manner. LouseCalls is proud to have helped hundreds of families throughout Florida take back control of their lives from head lice since 2005, by bringing their highly qualified nit pickers directly to their client’s homes. LouseCalls does all of the hard work. All the while, families are able to get on with the rest of their day (e.g. completing homework, watching television, sitting down for a meal, working, etc.) without leaving the comfort and confidential setting of their own home. This in home service also allows LouseCalls the unique ability to take time to educate the family on prevention techniques, and point out exactly what needs to be done on the head and in the home to eliminate re-infestation.
Additional information is available at www.lousecalls.com or contact 561-376-1066.
Louse Calls, Inc.
10909 Handel Place
Boca Raton, FL 33498
Telephone: 561-376-1o66
Amy@Lousecalls.com