After tears and exhaustion trying to handle the problem myself, I found your website and, possibly, my sanity!  Your calm, mom-to-mom discussion with me really assured me that help was on the way.  The moment Lice Brigade arrived at our house was the first moment in days that I felt confident we could tackle this problem.
- Eastside Mom
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My name is Sarah Casello-Rees.
I am the founder of The Lice Brigade.
Prior to this enterprise I owned a personal training business, Unique Physique Personal Training.  I have helped myriad clients get healthy and fit, but now I feel I have a new calling- help families become lice free!
In the fall of 2007 my son, then a fresh faced kindergartner, brought home a roaring case of lice.  He did not scratch, he was, like 60% of the people with lice, unaware he was infested.  It was not until I found a louse on my own head that I checked . Total !
I did what 90% of mothers would do.  I rushed to the store and bought tons of pediculicides, slathered it on the whole family's heads.  Then of course I went crazy cleaning, everything!  I was embarrassed and ashamed.  It wasn't until I did my research, and talked to other moms and dads that I discovered just how rampant lice are in our society!  Literally 80% of people I talk to with children have had direct experience with lice.  The other 20% have at least received the dreaded "letter" informing them that other children in their class have lice. I realized we need a better solution than using toxic chemicals on our children's heads.
During my research I learned many things.  You will find most of these "things" throughout this web site.  What I realized most was that families need help.  A lice infestation is not life threatening, it's not even a major health concern.  It is, however, emotionally overwhelming, and time consuming.  This is where we come in.
Charge Of The Lice Brigade
I have hired experienced, trained, and compassionate lice practitioners to help you navigate this ordeal.  Our Lice Brigade will come to your home and quickly and expertly help you with "all things lice". They will check all members of your family, and manually remove all the lice and nits in all infested people's hair.  They will assist you with the cleaning of your environment.  They will educate you and your children about lice and how to prevent another infestation.  Our practitioners are so good, we offer a 100% guarantee.
We service schools, daycare, and camps. If there is an outbreak of head lice at your school, daycare, or camp, don't panic, call the Lice Brigade!  We will dispatch a brigade of lice experts to assist you.  We can quickly perform head checks.  Further, we can manually remove lice and nits (with parental consent) from the infested children and staff.  We can help educate the children and their parents about lice.  We will instruct and/or assist with environmental cleanup.
Did your child get sent home from school with lice? Yes, you are panicked, this is a normal reaction.  The thought of bugs in our hair is very disturbing on a very primal level.  Instead of spending hours looking through your child's hair trying to find lice and nits, why not call a professional?  Our practitioners are all highly skilled at this particular task.  When your child needs his/her teeth cleaned, do you do it yourself, or take her to a hygienist?  Of course you take her to the hygienist, to a professional who has been trained and has experience.  Plus, who do you think a child is more likely to sit still for?  I think we all know the answer to that one!