LiceGuard Robi Comb Electronic Lice Comb
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Customer Reviews of LiceGuard Robi Comb Electronic Lice Comb
Customer Review: Everyone thneeds a Robi-Comb! Saved my sanity
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my first review - but I had to write this. This is the kind of product I recommend to almost everyone I meet who comes into contact with younger children, especially school nurse and my family doctor - both who said they'd never heard of it! Sadly, I wish I haven't had gazillions of experience with lice, but as a resident "expert" I'll try to explain my predicament and how the Robi-comb saved my sanity and stopped the bug in it's tracks!
First time my two younger girls brought home lice I dealt with it the usual way; nit-picking and lice-shampooing multiple times. Toxic poisons on my kids' heads...just what I wanted. Well, the buggers were hard to get rid of - and I followed the directions; vacuumed like a maniac and washed and dryed until I was exhausted. The girls had them for approx. 6 weeks.
Approximately 1 year later, my daughter came home with them AGAIN. At a friend's suggestion, I bought the robi-comb. Boy, did that thing get a workout! I'm unsure of the timeline, but I managed to rid the girls of the bugs much sooner.
Fast forward to just this spring. Up to this point I had not ever had the bugs myself - just had to deal with them on my girls. Have I mentioned I'm bug-a-phobic? When the school nurse called and told me to pick up my youngest because of lice , I sat down and sobbed. I REALLY hate pulling bugs out of her hair, and the eggs, etc. But, with steely resolve, I went to the task. Luckily (I thought) it was just her and noone else. But, as a hyper-bug-mom, I ran the robi-comb through my hair a few times a day "just to make sure" none had crawled on me.
Surprise, surprise...on DAY FIVE after my baby came home with them, I found one on me. It was so small you would've never caught it without a Robi-comb. You would've thought someone had died the way I reacted! I'm not proud of it, but being totally honest. My best friend painstakingly went through my hair - I had hundreds of eggs and a few bugs.
It has been said by the description on Amazon and by other posters - but I'll reiterate; the Robi-comb works by ZAPPING the heck out of the buggers until they're dead, dead, DEAD. Some of the ones it'd zap are so small - it's unbelievable it catches them that small! I'd brush them out onto a white countertop and with a MAGNIFYING GLASS stare at it (to make sure it was a bug and not lint). This does NOT give you a "get-out-of-nit-picking-free" card; you've got to be diligent with that as well. I had a routine of getting my daughter one hour early. I'd first go through her hair with the Robi-comb (sectioning and doing one part at a time). Then I'd wash her hair -then go through her hair with a traditional metal comb (oh, btw, throw those useless plastic combs out!); after washing I'd put in a conditioner and comb all the knots out. The water/shampoo/conditioner doesn't kill 'em, but it does slow them down ALOT. I'd section her hair and go through it looking for nits. Afterwards I'd braid her hair so it'd be easy to get through later in the day. At least once in the afternoon I'd un-do one braid and section it off - and go through with the Robi-comb. I'd braid that back up and do the other side. At night I'd go through it again with the Robi-comb and search for eggs.
I'll have to say this again - there is NO EASY WAY to get rid of the creatures, but the Robi-comb is the most amazing tool to help you in this quest.
As for my own infestation, I felt things were crawling on me constantly (this whole thing did not seem to even bother my 6 year old!). So, the Robi-comb gives you peace of mind. I was driving to an appointment and it was a two hour drive - the entire time I was using this on my hair. Perhaps it should come with a voice that says, "Ok - you can stop now" LOL but all-in-all you can be as vigilant as you want to be.
I got rid of my lice infestation in SIX DAYS. I kept checking after that but they were no more. I'll keep doing spot checks though...the Robi-comb is that good. I am SURE that if I did not have this product I would not have caught it as early as I did and it would have been alot worse.
Customer Review: a MUST 5 Stars
Ugh. The dreaded bugs. I was in the middle of a losing battle with these little creatures. First, I found them on my 8 year old daughter, a few days later, I found them on my 11 year old stepdaughter. Just yesterday I found them on my 2 year old daughter. Id treat one with the shampoos, disinfect EVERYTHING, then a few days later, another infested child. It was a cruel, endless loop. My stepdaughters hair is long, curly, thick, and a dirty blonde color, which makes it almost impossible to see. I found this product because I was at my wits end, ready to shave all our heads. After I treated my 8 year old, on a whim, I took this product through the ALREADY INSPECTED AND THOUGHT CLEAN head of my stepdaughter. The high pitched shreik stopped instantly... out came a dead one. Again, again, again. I treated her. Searched my 2 year old's head and, once again, saw NOTHING. On a baby's head that should have been EASY to find bugs, I missed them. Just as a precaution, took this thing through her head.... again, shrieking stopped instantly and I pulled this tiny (had to have been just hatched) bugs. Treated her as well. Had I not had this comb, two of my three children would have gone untreated and reinfested everyone and everything. There are no cons with this product. I run it through their hair every day, sometimes twice a day. If they would raise the price of this comb up to $70, I'd still say it is worth it. I have slowly built up an arsenal to battle these things, and this comb is my cannon. They cant hide anywhere now.Some people use this coupled with the Neon nit spray (just ordered it, yet to receive and/or try it... hear GREAT things about that too) and stop there. I chose to shampoo as well, because I want these things gone and gone fast.
Turning it on and listening to the hum of this comb is like watching a scary movie and hearing the music, waiting for something to happen. I hate it, but I love it. But, the peace of mind you receive when this thing hums like an angel without stopping is definitely worth it. BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT. You will NOT be disappointed!!
Customer Review: Zaps lice dead!
Summary: 5 Stars
I found out about the Robi-Comb here on Amazon and immediately bought it (Walgreen's and other pharmacies carry it if you cannot wait for shipping).
The Robi-Comb does EXACTLY what it claims to: It catches and electrocutes lice and nymphs.
If you read the poor reviews, they basically all say the same thing, and indicate that (1) the reviewer either did not read the Robi-Comb description and instructions, or (2) the reviewer does not understand the difference between nits, nymphs and lice (louse).
You use the Robi-Comb in a similar way to a regular metal lice comb. When in use, the comb emits a high-pitched tone. When a louse (adult lice) or nymph ("baby" lice) are caught in the teeth of the comb, the comb electrocutes the bugs, and as it does, it stops emitting the high-pitched tone, so that you know to stop and inspect the comb's teeth for the dead bugger.
The comb does not electrocute the eggs (nits) that lice lay on hairs, nor does it claim to do so! As with every lice remedy, you still have to be mindful of removing nits. The comb can catch the nits in its teeth just like a regular comb, but as with a regular comb, you still have to be vigilent when it comes to the nits.
If your kid has had lice, then you know the live, adult lice move quickly and can be very, very hard to catch--especially depending on your kid's hair color and texture. The Robi-Comb makes it SO much easier to catch them, and to know they're dead.
Depending on hair and the humidity in your home, the comb can charge up a lot of static while in use. A couple of times when I caught a louse, as I moved my hand near the comb's teeth to inspect it, the dead louse kind of flew off by static, and I couldn't find it. Gross, but you know it's dead, so it doesn't really matter!
If you are in the position that you have treated your kid, and you comb every day, but you keep finding a nit (egg) here or there, and you just suspect there are still 1 or 2 adult lice around, this is really a great product to help you finally hunt down the little buggers!
Customer Review: This WORKS!
Summary: 5 Stars
We recently had our first experience with head lice. I tried Nix, with mediocre results... the first few lice I combed out of my daughter's head were dead, then I started to comb out live ones that were not affected by the pesticides at all. I decided that I wouldn't use any more chemicals since I knew going into it that lice were becoming more and more resistant to them. I wasn't ready to cover our heads in mayo for 24 hours so my only other real option was to comb and pick by hand. I came across this comb at our local Walgreens and Riteaid and after reading the reviews on Amazon, I decided to pick one up. This thing works just like the makers claim it does. We had no issues whatsoever with the comb only working for a short while, we have been using it on and off for the past week and each time it has worked juts fine. By the time we started using this comb, most of the lice were gone, but it did pick up and kill at least 3 lice that I never would have otherwise been able to see. While you're combing the thing emits a high pitched whining sound and then suddenly becomes silent once it snares a louse. The electricity in the comb then zaps and kills the louse. Each time I used it, my daughter's head looked totally clean, no nits or anything, but this comb found and killed the few lice that were left. The reviewers that gave this a poor review don't seem to understand that the little white things that you can see attached to the hair are not the lice, but the nits, or egg cases left by the lice. The lice themselves are VERY difficult to see. This comb does not remove the nits, those need to be removed by hand or with a special nit removing comb. One of the reasons I bought this comb was so that i could comb my own head since I had no idea if I had caught the little vermin too. It makes a self check a breeze. I feel like this is a great thing to have around to do periodic checks just to be sure we don't get another infestation.
So, long story short.. it works. If you have lice, get one.
Customer Review: One weapon in the attack on Lice.
Summary: 5 Stars
This comb is battery operated and makes a humming sound. It zaps live lice,with an electric current. When it hits a live lice it stops humming for a moment. It can give a little shock to the person it is being used on if the sides of the comb touch the person's ear. When using it, just put your hand over the ear. The directions that it came with were kind of vague. I wish I had known this before I started using it on my son, as I zapped his ear a couple of times the first time I used it.
Use the comb daily - it only takes a few minutes, less on short hair.
It will not remove nits or eggs, it just kills live lice. If you kill the live bugs, they cannot continue to lay any more nits/eggs.
We eliminated lice in one day, and they never returned:
1 thoroughly wash hair with a lice killing shampoo,
2.remove remaining nits by hand.
3. Wash all bed linens, hats, jackets, clothing etc.
4. If you can't wash something, put it in the dryer, if possible- the heat is supposed to kill lice.
5. Use the Robi-Comb on dry hair and then use it each day for a week.
We had no return of the lice. I believe that since this comb kills the live lice it is the reason they did not return.
Oh, another tip- I believe after washing the hair with lice killing shampoo, it helps to put a conditioner in the hair and leave it in, while rubbing the hair - this seemed to help remove a lot of the nits- we used aussie brand conditioner, but I think any conditioner will soften the nits and make them come off of the hair shafts. Just apply conditioner and rub the hair between your fingers. I saw a lot of nits after shampooing and I noticed a lot less present after the conditioner was used, and that was less eggs I had to remove by hand when the hair was dry.
We now use this comb at least weekly to prevent lice. We figured he got the lice in school, and so far we haven't seen any nits reappear.