Although people of all ages can have lice or dandruff, they primarily affect different age groups. Head lice are most common in children 3-11 years old. Children often play together in close ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 6 million to 12 million cases of head lice occur each year in the U.S. in children ages 3 to 11. Head lice cases are most common among ...

Children worldwide are commonly infected with head lice, or pediculosis capitis. The epidemiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and preventive and treatment modalities for ...

Most subjects were female (86.9%), with a median age of 10 years. On day 15 in the intention-to-treat analysis, 378 (95.2%) of 397 patients were free of head lice in the ivermectin group ...