LICE CLINICS OF IRELAND & AIRALLÉ® LICE TREATMENT

Lice Clinics of Ireland is the only company in Ireland registered to supply products from Larada Sciences. A world leader in lice-treatment services the team are dedicated to the eradication of head lice. Larada Sciences has built the world’s largest network of lice-removal professionals. Its flagship product is the FDA-cleared* AirAllé® device (formerly called LouseBuster).

*The system can only be guaranteed when single-use tips are used on the machine by the operator.

PROFESSIONAL LICE TREATMENT & REMOVAL SOLUTION

AirAllé® (pronounced air-a-lay)

  • An FDA-cleared medical device
  • Single use tips are used to prevent cross contamination.
  • Kills head lice and 99.2 percent of lice eggs
  • A single, one-off treatment
  • Used by lice-removal professionals around the world
  • Provides a safe, fast and highly effective lice treatment

The FDA-cleared AirAllé device kills lice and eggs through dehydration. This is a revolutionary alternative to treating head lice with pesticides, herbal lice remedies, suffocation products or lice combs. The device, which was invented by scientists at the University of Utah, kills lice and eggs through a specific combination of temperature, airflow, time and technique.

The design of the single use tip is an important feature of the treatment. The tip can not be sterilised or cleaned after treatment so we use one tip per treatment and then discard it to prevent any cross contamination.

REVOLUTIONARY

Because the AirAllé device is so effective at killing lice eggs (which are the hardest for traditional lice products to kill), the chances of needing a follow-up treatment are very small.

Clinical studies done on over 500 people with head lice demonstrated the safety and efficacy of the AirAllé device and treatment (see published data in the peer-reviewed Pediatrics and Journal of Medical Entomology). Thousands of successful lice treatments are now being done each month with the AirAllé device.

MORE DETAILS

  • Distinguished Innovation

    The AirAllé® device concept originated in the laboratory of Dr. Dale Clayton at the University of Utah, where he is a professor in the Department of Biology.

  • 1980‘s - Early 1990’s

    Dr. Clayton successfully cultured lice on captive birds, such as common pigeons, for basic research purposes.

  • 1996

    When he moved his lab to the University of Utah, from Oxford University in England, he encountered great difficulty keeping lice alive on captive birds. He was informed that, because of Utah’s arid climate, they too had difficulty keeping insect cultures alive.

  • The Problem

    When his elementary school children contracted head lice, he thought it might be possible to control by reducing the level of humidity near the scalp. The question was how to accomplish this trick.

  • The Solution

    The culmination, of years of work and prototypes, was the publication in 2006 of a paper in the journal Pediatrics along with a press release by the University of Utah generated a feeding frenzy of worldwide media attention that validated widespread interest in such a device, and the critical need for it.

  • 2011

    A follow-up study was published in the Journal of Medical Entomology that showed the LouseBuster (which is now the AirAllé® Lice Device) was highly effective at killing lice and eggs.