Wet Combing
This method is recommended to check everyone in the household weekly for head lice. Current research supports this as the most effective method to identify head lice (Goldstein & Goldstein 2015; Kurt et al. 2105; Simmons, 2015; Jahnke et al. 2009). Additional information on the Wet Combing technique is available in Appendix D.
Wet combing is recommended as a way to manually remove live lice, breaking their life cycle and ending the infestation (Ibarra 1992; Ibarra, 1995; Hill, Moor et al. 2005). By combing out the live lice every 3-4 days, any newly hatched louse will be removed before it is able to reach adulthood and lay more eggs.