The LiceSnatcher™ can help both the parents and children
Safe for everyone to use: No chemicals at all. Safe for babies, toddlers and people with chemical sensitivities, allergies or eczema.
Effective The LiceSnatcher™ vacuum combing method was found to be 87% effective after one series of five treatments (20 out of 23 participants) with the remaining three all cured by a repeated series. No participant reported a recurrence in an eight week period after the study. (see Report Testing of Vacuum Combing) This is comparable with wet combing and is much better than chemicals when up against resistant strains of louse against which were found a failure rate of 87 % for permethrin and a failure rate of 64% for malathion in a 1999 study in the UK1
Cheap To use: One LiceSnatcher™ device may be used repeatedly by the whole family for years. Each one comes with six combs and lice filters. These can be used many times before they wear out.
Fast : To use The LiceSnatcher™ effectively takes about 15 minutes per treatment for five treatments over 12-14 days. Occasional lice checks on other family member are even quicker.
Great for checking for lice: Got another letter from the school? No problem, just carry out a rapid lice check on the family using the LiceSnatcher™. You will soon see if your family have a lice infestation or not. Safe and accurate so you can treat all infested contacts. Use as often as you need to with no risk or mess.
Why Invent The LiceSnatcher™?
The Danish inventor of the LiceSnatcher ™ wanted a better method of keeping his four girls free of head lice and nits. He was tired of putting chemicals like permethrin or malathion on his kids heads only to find that they were slow to use, messy and often not effective. Most of the natural lice remedies on the market were typically based on neem, tea tree and coconut oil compounds, some smelt good but were really just combing aids to mechanically removing the lice by wet combing using a traditional lice comb.
Anyway why use heavy weight industrial insecticides and expensive “natural oils” (which can be toxic as well) on a creature which can be picked off a child’s head with your fingers? A bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut. There had to be a better way.
So what is The LiceSnatcher™ ?
It consists of a mouthpiece with a comb, a tube and a filter with a container to collect the lice, the device is connected to a domestic vacuum cleaner. It uses the method of vacuum combing to dislodge and remove the lice from the hair by a unique combination of combing, hair control and airflow.
What makes it different from other methods?
This system helps parents by making the whole process of lice removal much more effective and efficient:
- No stopping to clean the comb on every stroke. The air flow automatically clears the comb of caught lice and puts them in the filter.
- Very Effective on dry hair The combination of the strong airflow across the scalp and separating sections of the hair with stops the lice escaping the LiceSnatcher ™. No liquids or mess!
- Fast: Because you don’t stop to clean the comb or wash rinse and dry hair with each treatment the LiceSnatcher™ is a fast treatment.
- You find out exactly how well each treatment works and that YOU are winning All the lice are caught in a lice filter. At the end of each treatment it is easy to count the number and sizes and record them in the Treatment Plan. Once you remove all adults – no more eggs, then the nymphs are caught –done.
- Very Accurate checking for lice: Because everything removed from the head is caught in the filter with nothing added you, your health advisor or doctor can confirm if you have an active lice infestation.
- The Lice cannot become resistant to the LiceSnatcher! Where the lice are resistant to the over the counter chemicals then a change of tactics away from chemical warfare will be more successful.
Remember: To get rid of lice you need to break the 10-14 day louse reproductive-cycle. Remove all adults then juvenile lice from the head before they can lay more eggs, there is no real way around it; you either remove them or kill them on your child’s head. The eggs are cemented onto the hair shaft and the neurotoxin chemicals have little effect on them.
Effective checking of other family members and people in contact with the child is very important in breaking the cycle on infestation.
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Lets compare the alternatives in more detail, the order is not important you already get the idea that we think the Licesnatcher is a very good product for helping people become lice free. The following is based on five years as parents using many different methods to remove lice. You make up your own mind about what’s best for you.
Insecticides To go down the insecticide route you need to find a live louse on the child’s head. (We don’t want to put neurotoxic insecticides on children’s heads just because they might have lice do we? ) So wash all conditioner out of the hair( or the insecticide will not work properly), dry it, then coat the child’s head with chemicals for up to twelve hours, wash it out and THEN repeat the whole performance seven days later followed by another check on day 11 or 12 to see if any lice remain. By then it is often the case that other members of the family that appeared to be lice free at the start are now scratching; and the whole sequence starts again! Not exactly easy, quick or cheap.
Dry Combing With traditional dry combing the lice move away from the comb so it is very difficult to be sure you have them all. You just battle daily for 30 minutes or so for two or more weeks until with great persistence and a little luck they are gone. (Along with your patience and peaceful cooperative children).
Electric combs and Zappers: Similar to dry combing, the lice move away from the comb and if you get one then you have to stop each time to clear the teeth.
Wet Combing With wet combing the lice are held in place by the combing liquid, be it regular hair conditioner or a special blend. This immobilisation makes wet combing much more effective than a dry nit comb. The NHS2 recommend wet combing for 30 minutes per treatment to be effective. With wet or dry combing a lot of time is spent removing the captured lice from the comb and it is difficult to do wet combing effectively outside the bathroom or home environment. Repeat the 30 minute treatment plus rinsing and drying time every 3 days for 5 treatments and you should be clear of lice.
Wet combing is slow and messy but carried out properly it can be very effective. To our knowledge any added effectiveness claimed by using special mixtures instead of regular hair conditioner as a wet combing aid have not been proven by clinical studies.
The Licesnatcher, Vacuum Combing: To use The LiceSnatcher™ effectively takes about 15 minutes per treatment (less for short hair) for five treatments over 12-14 days.
• No chemicals or lotions to buy
• Very Effective against all head lice
• Fast.
• No stopping to clear the comb
• No washing
You can check the whole family with one device. If you do find a second person with lice use a separate filter and comb for them and make a game of seeing how many big ones and little ones everyone has. You may be surprised that the itchiest person in the family is not the one with the most lice!
Occasional or regular lice checks on other family member are quick and safe. See the Demonstration Video
References:
(1) Downs, , Stafford, , Harvey, & Coles, (1999)
Evidence for double resistance to permethrin and malathion in head lice.
British Journal of Dermatology 141 (3), 508-511.
doi: 10.1046/
j.1365-2133.1999.03046.x
(2) NHS Direct Online Health Encyclopaedia Head lice