LICE! These tiny terrors can turn a family's life upside down

The Boston Globe | March 4, 1996| | Copyright

I walked into the drugstore the other day and asked a clerk where they stocked their Nix. He looked perplexed.

"You don't have kids, do you?" I said.

He shook his head no.

If he had children, he would likely know. Nix is a pesticidal shampoo used to treat head lice. In my experience, there are three kinds of parents of young children: those who will never forget when their children had lice, those whose children are currently infested, and those who dread becoming members of either of those groups.

My husband and I, unfortunately, have lost our chance to be members of that third group. With ...

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