Egg Hunt – Free Lice Treatments from Lice Clinics of America® – Spring Grove and Vernon Hills
It’s time to celebrate all things spring again: daffodils, bunnies, chicks, and, of course, Easter egg hunts. Hundreds of families will be gathering at Breakfast with the Bunny and egg hunts in the park to watch their little ones scramble to fill their baskets as fast as possible.
There are some eggs that no parent or child in Northern IL (or anywhere for that matter) wants to find at Easter or any other time of the year: nits. These are the eggs that are precursors to head lice. Anyone who sees these eggs want to get rid of them as quickly as possible.
Lice Clinics of America – in Vernon Hills and Spring Grove, IL are holding their annual “Egg Hunt” on April 13th when clinics around the country will give free head screenings and also free treatments for anyone with an active case of head lice.
“At our egg hunts people line up at our clinic to get checked and treated for head lice, all for free,” said Erin Hawn, owner of Lice Clinics of America Northern Illinois, with convenient locations in both Vernon Hills and Spring Grove, IL. “We do this 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 makes lice treatment faster, easier, and safer.”
“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), some 12 million children ages 13 and under, contract head lice each year,” Erin Hawn said. “There are 48 million children in the United States in that age group, which means that one in four will have head lice. A professional head screening is one of the best ways to detect a case of head lice and possibly one of the only ways to detect an infestation in the early stages, and early treatment can prevent an infestation.”
The Vernon Hills and Spring Grove clinics are the area’s exclusive provider of treatment for head lice using 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 takes about an hour.
Head lice have become tougher to treat in recent decades as they have become immune to pyrethroids, the pesticides 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, so-called “super lice,” are resistant to pyrethroids. Pyrethroids have also been linked to behavioral and developmental problems in children, including poor attention and early puberty in boys.
“There is no need to use dangerous pesticides on your children, and please do not every use these pesticide home and furniture sprays” Erin Hawn said. “Science and medicine have made faster and safer alternatives available to families.”
The Northern IL clinics also offer a line of home treatment products that prevent and kill head lice without toxic chemicals or pesticides, although they can take a bit longer than the AirAllé treatment to be effective.
The Egg Hunt will screen and treat people on a first-come, first served basis during from 9am-12pm in Vernon Hills, IL and from 9am-3pm in Spring Grove, IL.
With more than 330 clinics in 35 countries, Lice Clinics of America is the largest network of professional lice treatment centers in the world. The AirAllé has treated more than 1 million cases of head lice around the world, with a success rate better than 99 percent.
To learn more or to schedule an appointment, visit www.LiceClinicsNorthernIL.com, email info@LiceClinicsNorthernIL.com, or call 888-858-LICE.
