Moms with older kids

My friends 2 daughters recently got lice, they think from the gym her MIL takes them too. She is treating them with Nix, as well as, herself and her DH plus house, sheets, clothes etc. Now her SIL is giving her a very hard time saying she isn't taking this seriously enough and she needs to take them to a dermetologist!?!?!?! I worked in day care a long time and never heard of anyone going to a dermetologist for lice, maybe if it doesn't go away, but......any opinions? Is she doing the right thing or should she be doing more?

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All in all there is no reason to go to the dermatologist...you can go to the ped for a RX shampoo..but it's really a heavy duty pesticide and they usually prefer to wait to use that until they see if the NIX is working or not. She needs to retreat after 10 days..and make sure she combs thoroughly through her head and get ALL of the nits (eggs) otherwise she will get reinfested. Additionally tell her to not wash their hair for a couple of days to let the shampoo really really do it's thing.

FM me if you have any more questions..

PS..Now Im itchy!!!

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LOL...me too. Thanks so much, I am going to forward this to her. Her SIL (who has no kids BTW) was very hard on her and made her feel like a bad mom.