The Great Lice Egg Hunt

The Great Lice Egg Hunt – Free Lice Treatment offered to families in the Delaware Valley.
It’s that time of year again—for lilies, chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, and, of
course, egg hunts. Every spring, parents bring their children to egg hunts, where kids rush
around filling their baskets with delightfully colored eggs and other treats.
But there are some eggs no parent or child in the Delaware Valley wants to find at Easter
or any other time of the year—nits, precursors to head lice. When you find these eggs,
you want to get rid of them as quickly as possible.
Lice Clinics of America – Philadelphia held its annual Egg Hunt on April, 7th when we
provided free head screenings and lice treatments for anyone with an active case of head
lice!
The Delaware Valley Egg Hunt began in 2017 to call attention to the fact that some 12
million people contract head lice each year in the United States alone, to debunk the myth
that head lice are related to poor hygiene, and to show that safe, effective treatment
options are available.
“Every year, people line up at our clinics to get checked and treated for head lice, for
free,” said Sharon Rizzuto, owner of Lice Clinics of America – Philadelphia. “We hold
this event as a service to our community to reduce the stigma associated with head lice
and to show that there is a revolutionary treatment available that make lice treatment
faster, easier, and safer.”
The Conshohocken and Garnet Valley clinics are the area’s exclusive provider of
treatment using the AirAllé, an FDA-cleared Class I medical device, clinically proven to
kill live lice and more than 99 percent of eggs using warm air to dehydrate lice and nits.
No pesticides are used, and the entire treatment process takes about an hour.
Head lice have become tougher to treat in recent decades as they have become immune to
pyrethroids, the pesticide used in the most popular over-the-counter lice products. The
most recent study found that 98 percent of lice in most U.S. states are resistant to
pyrethroids. Pyrethroids have also been linked to behavioral and developmental problems
in children, including poor attention and early puberty in boys.
“We want everyone to know that there is no need to use dangerous pesticides on your
children,” Sharon Rizzuto said. “Science and medicine have made safer alternatives
available to families.”
The Conshohocken and Garnet Valley clinics also offer a line of home treatment products
that prevent and kill head lice without toxic chemicals or The home treatment products
are used over a 10-day period to eradicate lice.
Developed by scientists at the University of Utah, the AirAllé has treated nationally more
than 750,000 cases of head lice with a success rate of better than 99 percent. With more
than 300 clinics in more than 30 countries, Lice Clinics of America is the largest network
of professional lice treatment centers in the world.