The Nitty Gritty Comb (by sarah)
Jean being at nursery and mixing with other children occassionally comes home with head lice or nits these are little blood sucking insects that live in hair and as I told a panicking mum - they prefer clean hair and just about all children get them. Infact when I was at school you were thought of as dirty if you hadnt had them leading to a strange fashion of scratching your head on a regular basis reguardless.
Now the first time we got some full marks shampoo which worked really well and came with a free nitt comb (this have lots of thick metal teeth that scrape the lice off of the scalp) in fact it worked so well that when Jeans head was itching from a mozzy bite she went and got the box and mimmed putting the shampoo on. But it was expensive and needed to be applied twice over a set period of time inorder to get the eggs once they had hatched but before they themselves could breed so this time when I went to buy some the lady at the pharmacy told me about the nitty gritty comb which has really long metal teeth that tapier to a round point at the end and appear to have a fine archemedes screw type thing going on on each tooth. This reputedly gets rid of the eggs as well as the nitts and is reusable and can be used on every body (this seemed like a good option as me, dad and Al and probably Barbara had already cuaght them!).
It worked fantastically on Jean and Dad and ok on Al but then I tried to use it on me - I have thick, tangle prown, waist length curly hair - I have one word - OUCH!
Not good - I'm sticking to the shampoo! The other thing is that though it has rounded ends I would say that it is a definatly a bit harsher on the scalp. Still its effective 🙂
Jean, The Family | sarah | 
Sat 20th Oct 2007 10:46 am
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