Starting from scratch. The Robi Nit comb. (Robi Comb Electronic Nit Comb)

Member Name: GillMN

Product:	Robi Comb Electronic Nit Comb
Date:	10/10/08 (856 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: It electrocutes the foul things.

Disadvantages: None.

This review is not for those who are suggestible, in fact you might need to sit on your hands to avoid scratching.

Everybody who has had kids will dread that letter coming home from school with the doomladen phrase "There is currently an infestation of head lice in your daughter Petunias' class and we recommend you to have her head shaven or treat her for nits or both." (or something slightly less Draconian!)

Gone are the days when 'Nitty Norah the Bug Explorer' grommetted around in every child's head and eradicated the things with one glare of her steely eyes. (The nits, not the kids!)

Gone are the days (thank God!) when you could tell who had had nits by their almost baldy heads and purply splotches on what was left of their scalps. No! These are the days of equal opportunities and those blooming lice are the opportunists of all time.

We had to treat our kids rarely, thank goodness! The lotions we had to buy stank, weren't properly effective, cost a lot and were humiliating for those involved in the purchase of them. Especially if, like us, you lived in a small village! The child might as well have had a placard put around their neck saying "Unclean!" because the lotions had to be left in and made the hair all sticky-outy and funny smelling!

It is now possible to buy a very effective Robi electric comb which buzzes gently when you use it and it goes quiet for a second when it electrocutes one of the little bleeders. (What a satisfying no sound that is too!)

The comb is detachable from the battery unit and can be washed and used by all members of the family.
It works off one AA battery which lasts quite a long time before it needs replacing.

The comb is safe to use, it won't electrocute you, the most you can feel is a mild tingling in your fingers if you don't hold the sides the way you are advised to.

The humming is not unpleasant and nothing can be felt on the scalp other than the normal sensations of combing.

The initial outlay is between £11.00 and £15.00. When you think of the price of the liquid treatment and combs, it would not be long before the Robi comb starts to save you money. Plus, once the lice are eliminated you can use it weekly as a precautionary measure. So although it's not particularly cheap to start with you won't have to pay any more out.

Personally I would pay any amount to stay clear of headlice, just the thought of them makes me feel itchy and unclean.

The Robi comb has to be used daily for fourteen days. The comb will only kill the lice. The nits, which are the little white eggs which the lice stick to the hair shafts, are not killed by the comb. They are not killed by any of the potions either which is why all treatments have to continue to kill the lice as they emerge from the eggs and before the breeding cycle starts again.

Lice don't fly or jump, they crawl from one head to another. You can't catch them off cats or dogs or canaries! The lousy little things have six claws to grip your hair which is part of the reason they are so hard to get rid of. They feed by sucking blood through the skin on your head.

How nasty is that? Bleurgh! (Pardon me whilst I have a good scratch!)

I know that this isn't a pleasant subject but the Robi comb made the problem a lot more manageable and the evidence of the dead lice was there before our eyes.

The instructions were clear and easy to follow.

There was a lot of information about headlice and their breeding habits which I found interesting up to a point but I wanted to kill them, not set up a farm for them.

This very useful gadget is made by Oris and their should be a special place in Heaven reserved for the inventor!

What more can I say?

Have you stopped scratching yet?

Summary: A brilliant little invention.