Right Down To The Nitty Gritty

Advantages: eradicates eggs and lice
Disadvantages: none

...Nitty Gritty Comb About a year and a half ago I spotted the Nitty Gritty comb in my local pharmacy. The design of the comb immediately caught my attention because of its long metal teeth and the spiralled grooves which ran down the length of each tooth on the comb. Having three children in the house who have each had their fair share of nits in the past I decided to buy it incise we had another outbreak. The comb is a lot more expensive than your usual nit comb; but from my own experience this comb is definitely worth paying extra for because it is the best nit comb I have ever used. The Nitty Gritty comb costs £9.99; I know it sounds expensive but I worked it out and it is actually a lot cheaper than you may think. There are three young children in our house between the ages of five and ten, and all three children have had...

just.bcoz 03.03.2008 · Read review
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Lets get down to the nitty gritty

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...hair remains clear, and I really am impressed with how clean this keeps her hair . It picks up anything else in her hair too (paint, fluff, bits of glitter) and she has remained, touch wood, free from nits since getting this comb. The comb is more expensive than ordinary lice detection combs - it costs around a tenner from most supermarkets and chemists. If, like me , you're on benefits, that can seem quite a lot, but the Nitty Gritty comb is available on prescription , and its worth asking your doctor (or nurse practitioner) to prescribe one for you if you are exempt from prescription charges. The comb comes with a lifetime gaurantee, so if for any reasons yours is damaged or broken, you can return it the the company and they'll send you a new one . Despite regular use, mine is showing no signs of wear and tear yet. I love this comb...

Thehonesttruth 01.10.2009 · Read review
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Nitty Gritty NitFree Comb - Get Nit Free Pronto!

Advantages: It works. Comes with a Lifetime Guarantee. No Chemicals.
Disadvantages: None - but I hope I don't have reason to use it again

...recommended. The Nitty Gritty NitFree Comb is a metal comb with 33 long spiralled teeth which literally get to root of the problem by removing the nits and their eggs, eradicating the problem in one feel swoop. No chemicals, no potions, no medicines. After wetting or dampening the hair, apply conditioner (any kind will do but tea tree oil is supposed to be a repellent to headlice so you may prefer to use one containing that or add tea tree oil to any conditioner you have to hand) and then comb through in the first instance with a normal comb to untangle the hair. Then, working in sections, use the Nitty Gritty comb to comb through the hair in different directions, working until the comb is clean. And you will see the fruits of your labours!! I stuck on a DVD and let the girls sit and watch the television and I combed...

carcraig 12.05.2009 (08.09.2009) · Read review
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Get Nitty with Gritty

Advantages: does exactly what it say's it should
Disadvantages: none

...Like all long suffering mum's with children of school age i'm fighting against the battle of the Nits. I had heard of the Nitty Gritty comb a long while ago in various forums where other mums were fighting the same battle and quite a few of them recommended this to be the best solution for getting rid of the horrible lice eggs. We have all been told to use a steel toothed comb to eliminate the headlice as they are becoming immune to the lotions that we use yet from personal experience i hadn't found a steel toothed comb that got rid of the eggs as well as the live lice until now that is..... ****The packaging**** The Nitty Gritty comb comes in a clear plastic wrapper it has a black insert leaflet which has clear instructions on the back in white writing also the front of the leaflet has the Nitty Gritty logo on as well as...

LILL07 29.06.2006 · Read review
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Getting down to the nitty gritty of bugs

Advantages: Removes most lice and eggs during wet combing
Disadvantages: can be difficult to clean and can tear hair if used dry

...~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 or conditioner) the comb can strip and rip hair that gets caught in the laser etchings. Due to its nature it can often be difficult to remove bugs and eggs from the comb whilst combing, either...

SarahJohnston_greenmums 02.10.2007 · Read review
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Is The £10 Nit Comb Worth It?

Advantages: Strips lice and eggs from the hair
Disadvantages: Expensive

...My daughter first became infested with the dreaded headlice when she was just two and started attending nursery. Over the years I have probably used every lotion, potion and comb on the market to keep the bugs at bay with varying degrees of success. The problem is that I manage to get her clear but she gets reinfested at school again. One day I went to my local chemist and asked for some advice and the assistant advised me to buy the nitty gritty comb. I nearly passed out when she told me that it cost £9.99 but luckily in my area of Scotland pharmacists are available to prescribe for minor ailments so I got the comb free. Head lice are a major problem in British schools these days. I remember when I was a kid the school nurse would periodically check our hair and any kid who was infected was sent home until they were treated to stop...

wigglylittleworm 06.08.2009 · Read review
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Every parent should have one of these, absolutely amazing!

Advantages: IT WORKS!! What more do you want from a nit comb? And it's easy to use.
Disadvantages: Arguably the price, but it's a one-off purchase and WELL worth the money.

.... The other option, I soon discovered, is 'wet combing'. This is where you wet the child's hair, coat it in loads of conditioner and then work through it with a fine-toothed nit comb, for hours at a time if some of the accounts I read were to be believed! Well, I'm sure I'm not alone in not actually having many spare hours in a week, surely there must be something better? Luckily, after reading about a few more mums' experiences online, I found the same solution popping up time and time again - the Nitty Gritty Comb. The comb has 33 metal teeth, approximately 35 mm long, which are extremely close together. They have rounded ends, so as not to scratch the scalp, and each tooth has a narrow spiral groove running along it. Now, I'm not sure exactly what these grooves do but, believe you me, this comb WORKS! I've not ever used any other...

skybluecat 17.10.2009 · Read review
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No nit picking from me

Advantages: Effective and unique design, durable
Disadvantages: Initial outlay is higher than for traditional nit combs

...sensible to me to try to a more natural solution to eradicate the problem. I felt there had to be a better comb to use and upon googling, I came across a website for the Nitty Gritty comb. What caught my eye almost immediately was the fact this comb was completely different to standard nit combs - for starters it has far longer teeth - and given how long and thick my daughter's hair is, this made the comb very appealing. At first I thought I was going to have order it online but I read a couple of reviews stating it could be bought in Boots or Sainsbury's, so I decided to look in my local Sainsbury's the next day. Sure enough, the comb was available for the price of £9.99, which I initally thought seemed a little steep - but given the glowing reports I had read of this comb and the fact it was quite clearly completely different to any other...

rosebud2001 27.07.2009 · Read review
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Itch itch itch...

Advantages: It works
Disadvantages: the lice aren't nice

...Nitty gritty Nit Free Comb A coouple of weeks ago, i felt compelled to try almost every product on the market when I found some of the dreaded head lice in little Miss?s hair. While I was treating it with one of the products, someone suggested this comb, so i decided to give it a go in the weeks interim between one application of the spray and the next... a kind of mid week fix! The comb proclaims itself to be the winner of the Daily telegraph family Friendly Award and comes with a lifetime guarantee. When I take the comb out of the plastic packaging (scissors required) there is a short message congratulating me on purchasing the best comb in the world! WHY SO GOOD?... The comb promises to get everything out, not just the head lice but nits and eggs as well (I thought the nits were the eggs). The comb also comes...

danielalong 17.03.2009 · Read review
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THE NIT NILATOR

Advantages: Brill on all hair lengths and thicknesses
Disadvantages: May seem a little expensive

...these crawly things as I had never experienced them before. Once I read into it and discovered it was clean hair they like I was relieved and unfortunately that wasn't to be my only encounter with them, it seems a regular occurence at my children's school and I am now quite accustomed to sitting combing every strand to remove the little devils. Problem is though, my daughter has long, thick hair, and the combs you normally buy do not seem to go through and collect them, I end up like a mother monkey sitting there picking out the ones the comb has left behind, sound disgusting I know, but it has to be done, BUT NOT ANYMORE. Welcome the Nitty Gritty Comb. I saw this Nitty Gritty Comb priced at £9.99 at my local chemist, seemed rather expensive for a metal comb, but heh, you'll try anything and everything to allieviate the problem...

allyoxley 30.06.2006 · Read review
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