Pulse: Chatter: Scourge On The Main Line

“There is no one season for lice,” professional nitpicker Wendy Pincus says cheerfully. “There will be outbreaks in one area and it’ll be the hot topic for a while, and the next month, it will be a hot topic among another group in another area.” That may be cold comfort for the scads of Main Liners hit by nits early this year (you’re next, South Jersey!) — but in the meantime, folks in Bryn Mawr and beyond have taken action, calling on Pincus’s year-old company, Family Lice Removal. Because the critters have begun to build up resistance to over-the-counter products, people have had to turn to pros like Pincus and crew, who use nontoxic shampoo to stun the lice, then pick them from victims’ hair for $175 a head (with a $100 follow-up seven to 10 days later). “I’ve been doing two or three [clients] a day for the last two or three weeks,” Family Lice Removal’s David Loewenstein says. “The average head takes two to three hours, but I was at one place from 2 until 11 p.m. Three families in one cul-de-sac all had to be de-loused.”