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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Everyone thneeds a Robi-Comb! Saved my sanity, June 23, 2008
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.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good when it works!, July 21, 2008
I have a love-hate relationship with the Robi Comb. I think it helped me conquer a lice infestation. It's particularly good at pulling out and alerting me to tiny nymphs that I would have missed on a visual inspection. And when it zaps the lice, it's good to know if I don't get the bugs off the child's head, they're dead and can't bite or reproduce. HOWEVER, I suspected that my kids were reinfested so ran the RobiComb through their hair. Not a blip in the buzzing, so I thought we were home free. Not so! Something was WRONG with Mr. RobiComb, because I checked again later with an ordinary metal lice comb and found lots o'little licey. I got a new rOBIComb and use it, but in conjunction with traditional, non-electric metal combs.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Surprisingly effective louse-control device, April 20, 2009
After treating my two goddaughters repeatedly and unsuccessfully for pyrethroid-resistant lice for the better part of a year, I was facing the prospect of having to get a prescription for lindane. That was something I didn't want to do because of the toxicity concerns.
I decided to give the Robi-Comb a shot, and I was pleasantly surprised. It immediately found lice that I had missed despite my inspection, and rapidly helped to rid the kids' heads of lice where pesticides failed. It found lice that I doubt I would have found with the naked eye.
Incidentally, I was a certified Public Health Pest Control Operator for more than two decades. I once wrote a book about head lice control, back when we had relatively non-toxic chemicals that actually controlled them.
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