Wearing a hair net and blue latex gloves, Cece Uribe peels back her client’s thick red hair and begins combing out dead lice. After three years in the nitpicking business, she’s seen it all—an infestation so bad the hair was sticky with nits, a patient who had a year-long case that no pharmacy shampoo could cure, even a ten-month-old baby who had caught a stubborn case from daycare.
Lice Clinics of America specializes in killing “super lice,” a strain that has developed a resistance to common treatment products. Back to school is one of the clinic’s busiest seasons. The clinic’s secret weapon against the bugs is a small, vacuum shaped device called the Airallé that sits in front of each green salon chair. Rather than poison the bugs, the FDA cleared device dehydrates them, which was found to be effective after a frustrated scientist realized he could not keep his lice specimens alive in his dry, Utah lab.
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