PARENTS battling infestations of lice on their children’s heads will soon
have a new weapon. A shampoo developed in the US causes lice eggs, or nits, to
glow under ultraviolet light, making them much easier to spot and remove by
hand.
Sydney Spiesel, a pediatrics professor at Yale University School of Medicine,
formulated the shampoo after he was forced to manually remove
pesticide-resistant lice and their eggs from a child’s head. “The child had
thick, blonde hair. It took me an hour to go through this kid’s head,” he
says.
Every year about 14 million children get head lice in…
