The damp weather this summer has triggered a huge increase in nits, and with children heading back to school shortly, the problem is only going to get worse in the coming weeks. So many parents across the UK will be looking for a way to rid their children’s heads of the dreaded head lice.
The Nitty Gritty Comb is a quick, safe and easy way to remove an entire head louse infestations, including those tiny little eggs that attach themselves to the hair. This product required no chemicals and so is much kinder to kids than other products.
‘Our stocks of the Nitty Gritty Comb did run dangerously low in June,’ says Amanda, one of the three mums responsible for the award-winning stainless steel design. ‘Our sales figures for this June were up nearly 100 per cent over last year’s, and we had to manufacture an extra 80,000 combs to meet the demand.’
‘We were very puzzled at first when our stockists started to tell us they were running out of Nitty Gritty Combs. But then we read this report in the London Evening Standard (July 13 2012):
Ian Burgess, director of insect research and development at the Medical Entomology Centre in Cambridgeshire, and the UK’s leading parasitologist, said: “We have had lots of damp weather and our studies suggest this has caused a higher level of lice than normal. The weather has also meant more children indoors and in close contact which has increased the speed at which the infestation has spread.
Chances are this is also being passed on from these children to their siblings and even their parents, who in turn can pass it on to their colleagues at work and fellow commuters. Lice have also built up some resistance to treatments such as pesticides, so the incidence of lice has risen dramatically over the past few generations.”
The Nitty Gritty Comb is on special offer for the summer, at only £6.70 from www.nittygritty.co.uk – and is also available from Boots, major supermarkets and over 12,000 UK family pharmacists.
