{"id":2023,"date":"2020-03-04T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boldbarber.com\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2020-02-29T17:55:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T17:55:53","slug":"does-blow-drying-hair-kill-lice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldbarber.com\/does-blow-drying-hair-kill-lice\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Blow Drying Hair Kill Lice?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many different ways to deal with hair lice, some convenient, others \u2013 not so much. While that makes lice an easy problem to deal with they still need to be dealt with as quickly as possible before they become more difficult to manage.<\/p>\n

This means that often it\u2019s smarter to reach for a convenient solution you may already have at your disposal rather than wasting time looking for more convoluted options. For example, does blow drying hair kill lice?<\/p>\n

The quick answer here is \u2013 yes, it can. Can blow drying hair kill lice faster and more effectively than other methods, however? Eh, it depends on the blow dryer.<\/p>\n

The science of blow drying hair lice<\/h3>\n

There actually is a fair amount of research down on the subject such as this article<\/a> in the Archive of Disease in Childhood. Studies such as this one have used different hair blow drying methods on hundreds of patients to determine if, when and how blow drying works against head lice and their eggs.<\/p>\n

Here are the six methods for heating the scalps of infected children:<\/p>\n