Nitty Gritty Comb

~What is a nitty gritty comb?~ A nitty gritty comb is a variation on traditional lice detection combs specifically designed to help parents and guardians detect and remove head lice. ~What is the difference between this and other lice combs~ Traditional lice detection combs are metal or plastic, with 1cm long teeth and about 0.2mm teeth and gaps, reducing the chances of missing lice and/or eggs (nits or casings) during wet combing. A Nitty gritty comb has 3cm long teeth which are laser etched spirally. Used during wet combing this comb can remove both lice AND eggs quite effectively without use of chemicals. However if used dry (no water ...  Read the complete review

I've never been as impressed with a product as much as I've been impressed with this comb. For years my daughter has been plagued with headlice. While killing the lice has been routine, the number of nits in her hair constantly increased until it was truely awful. I thought I was going to have to cut her beutiful long hair off to get rid of them and she hated me for it. Then I saw this comb in the chemist. It looked expensive but by this point I was willing to try anything. I bought it and some louse killer and after using the treatment followed the instructions that came with the comb. You must use it on wet hair smothered in conditioner. I was amazed at how it stripped ...  Read the complete review

There are several things you dread when you become a parent. Nappy rash, threadworm, and head lice are probably the three I feared the most, and whilst my daughter managed to escape threadworm and only got nappy rash when she was teething, sadly she has fallen victim to head lice. I must have been a very fortunate child as I never encountered these parasites in childhood, possibly due to the fact my mother insisted I kept my hair short, something I bitterly resented after being mistaken several times for a boy. This resentment led to me being quite happy to let my daughter wear her hair long and whilst over the years we would get letters home from school ...  Read the complete review

Both my kids on a number of occasions have brought home headlice from school as an extra little treat for me to contend with. I can't help but scratch my head just thinking about them. My son was easy to deal with. I got a good pair of clippers and chopped off his locks. Brutal but effective. Now my daughter wasn't so keen on this treatment and to be fair, I took her point. Having trained as a pharmacy counter assistant I was well aware of the myriad of products available to treat the lice. Most of the pharmacists assured me that the majority of products may well kill the lice but you'd need to retreat in a week or so to be sure as they don't ...  Read the complete review

Apologies in advance if you find yourself scratching involuntarily while reading this review. Our daughters brought home some unwelcome little "guests" from nursery a few weeks ago. Headlice, nits, call them what you will, it was my first ever encounter with this affliction and I was horrified, repulsed appalled and embarrassed....I hot- footed it down to the local chemist who informed my that they were rife round the local primary school, where many of our daughters' classmates have siblings and I came home with their prescription. I applied the first treatment as instructed. It didn't seem to work. Not to put too fine a point on it, the ...  Read the complete review