Sometimes, nits (head lice eggs) are incorrectly identified
at school or daycare and in doctor's offices.
I can often tell you over the phone if what you are seeing are nits, by
asking you a few questions.
Call me. It's free! 808-821-8008
Read below the true story of a mother who used this
free service and found out that she needlessly
spent 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:
This is a FREE service.
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
(Some people have sent me a gratitude check along with their samples but
it is not required. This is a free
Service.)
My 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.
