For mild and non-serious causes, there are several home remedies that can help ease the itchiness and improve scalp health.

Medically reviewed by Susan Bard, MD An itchy scalp can develop due to a variety of causes, including your hair-washing routine, head lice, psoriasis, and more. How to find relief depends on the cause ...

Head lice need a human host to survive. If the hair is gone, so are head lice. While cutting a child’s hair may seem like an extreme solution, it may be a viable course of action for some parents. If ...

Their claws are perfectly designed to scuttle up and down shafts of hair. But while they're nimble on our hair, once they're off, they don't last long – they're clumsy, uncoordinated, and die quickly.

Lice are only passed to others by close head-to-head contact. Even then the risk is low. Lice are rarely passed to others by sharing caps or combs. Sleepovers and sleeping together only has a small ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Dandruff is a common skin condition that causes the skin on the scalp to flake off ...

Between 6 and 12 million children ages 3 through 11 get head lice every year in the U.S., according to an estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a lot of itching ...

Other dandruff shampoos shouldn't sit for a long time on your skin, and you should rinse them out right away. If the first type of dandruff shampoo doesn't work well enough, try a different kind.

Location: Lice and dandruff can look the same at first glance, but they occur in different locations. Lice lay their eggs (called nits) on the hair shaft itself. Nits adhere to the hair shaft close to ...

Head lice, itchy parasites that live on the scalp, are typically spread through direct head-to-head contact, mostly among children. And getting close for group selfies — which often means ...

Lice eggs are called nits and are about the size of a small flake of dandruff, but cannot be easily shaken off or brushed out. Lice lay their nits on hair shafts close to the scalp and rely on the ...