Lice Zapper electronic electric head lice nit comb- detects and kills headlice

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First, wet all of your child’s hair and comb conditioner through it with a regular brush. The water slows down the lice and the conditioner makes the hair easier to comb. I have used this comb multiple times, and the concept is a good one. There is something quite satisfying about vacuuming those pesky lice out of the hair! My clients love to see what I’ve vacuumed up. However, there are a few disadvantages to an electric comb.

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The Hairforce who are the UK’s professional nit and head lice clearing service use a gold standard long-toothed nit comb called the LiceMiester. For example, there’s one kind of electronic lice comb that’s designed to make a humming sound as it moves through your hair. It produces a small electrical zap whenever it detects a louse between its teeth. This effectively kills the insect. Then you need to clean the comb off before it’ll resume its humming search. Electric nit combs have been around for quite some time now and interestingly have not usurped the pretty basic long-toothed metal nit comb. So why is that? Why haven’t electric nit combs or electronic nit combs taken over from the ordinary metal nit comb? The answer is that they don’t really offer a better result than the traditional nit comb, and they are much more expensive.Often, the past feels like a foreign country. But occasionally the landscape of the ancient world is illuminated in a way that makes it all too recognisable. I experienced a rush of fellow feeling with generations long gone last week after Israeli archaeologists revealed the oldest known sentence written in humanity’s first alphabet. Which words did the bronze age Canaanite scribe choose to scratch on an ivory comb in approximately 1700BC? “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” When it comes to using nit combs, there are some frequently asked questions we get from our clients.

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We tend to be more functional these days. But in a world of dizzyingly rapid technological change, there is something strangely comforting about a mundane problem that has never gone away. For all the marketing hype about “electric nit combs” – a ruse for winkling 20 quid out of desperate parents if ever I heard one – we’ve made little progress since the Canaanites. Many supermarkets and chemists own label nit combs. You will have seen Boots’ nit comb and Tesco’s nit comb, for example. These are generic combs, like many others out there, where the manufacturer just adds the name of the supermarket or chemist on it. Long-toothed metal nit combs are the way to comb out nit eggs. You won’t get them out using an ordinary comb or brush. You need to apply some conditioner – preferably a clear one, so you can see what you are extracting – to nit comb with. This lubricates the hair, essential when using a metal comb.They really are not recommended. If you are looking for the best nit combs, it is the long-toothed metal nit comb that works for all hair types and lengths, and for all levels of head lice infestation that needs removing from the hair.

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Also, the comb stops working whenever anything becomes caught between its teeth. So you’re constantly stopping to clean random scalp debris off of the brush.

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Although lice are more of a nuisance than a serious medical concern, infestations can become serious in some children. Too much scratching can lead to painful openings and infections. In this case, you should talk to your doctor or see a dermatologist right away. In other ages and cultures, much care and attention has been lavished on nit comb design: the V&A museum has a 12th-century comb decorated with seven scenes from the Bible; an ornate 15th-century French comb was inscribed with the words “for your comfort”. A Venetian comb is engraved with a tableau showing the typical pastimes of wealthy nobles, including dancing in a garden, playing a portable organ and hunting deer.