Wet comb beats visual check for spotting lice

Visual inspection doesn’t cut it when identifying whether your child has active head lice. Wet-combing a child’s hair may be the best way to determine if he or she has an active case of head lice, German researchers report.

Dr. Claudia Jahnke of the City Health Department in Braunschweig and her colleagues found that this method identified active infestations 91 percent of the time, while visual inspection of a child’s hair only spotted 29 percent of the active infections.

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