chicken pox
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Topic: chicken pox
Posted By: TysMummy
Subject: chicken pox
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 9:59am
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wat are your remedies? wat did you use for your children or do? ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: monkey33
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 10:35am
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DS had them a few months ago - does one of your children have them? It was probably a bit different for us as DS is a baby & didn't really scratch them. We just used calomine lotion and tried to avoid touching the spots as I remember having them as a child and some of the spots really hurt!
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 10:37am
| DS3 has just had chicken pox, not a bad dose so we just used Paracetamol & Calamine lotion. |
Posted By: luvmylittlies
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 12:39pm
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Haha where's Juzzo? She just had a month (more?) of all 4 boys tag teaming their chicken pox. ------------- Adoring Mum to Talisin 8/9/11 and Kiara 18/01/10 |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 12:58pm
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the best thing that helped my three through the pox was phenergan. during the day the calamine lotion stopped the itching mostly but at night it was shocking... so i drugged them to sleep... they slept the whole night and had a reasonably comfortable sleep. i also put baking soda in their baths in the evening, but oatmeal is good too. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: TheKelly
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 1:37pm
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...When Caitlyn got them (she was thrilled , she'd been wanting them for ages , he thrill lasted a day ) I pretty much did the same as Bizzy ------------- 
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Posted By: jjands
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 2:10pm
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we were told that calomine will dry them out causing more scarring, pinetarsol (sp?) is great for easing the itch and tea tree cream to heal them heal.
But theres always conflicting stories!! |
Posted By: TysMummy
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 2:53pm
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nah calamine wont cause them to scar when they dry....they need to dry and crust over to heal....its the scratching and removing the top off fresh ones that cause scaring....
Bizzy....just read about the outmeal thing...on google...does baking soda help the itching aswell? never heard of that one but have some to try tonight. what about hair........he was due for hair cut so its very thick which makes him itch more....other then that he isnt really itching its more of the pain. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 7:30pm
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Baking soda in the bath is really good.
Also you can apply white vinegar to the really itchy spots as this will help alot with the itching and healing |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 9:45pm
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Calamine lotion is no longer recommended as it dries out the skin and makes it more itchy!! Pity everyone who has used it in the last 50 yrs!
We had these recently. I set aside a mini bottle of aloe vera handcream and told the girls anytime they felt like itching, they could get some cream and put it on instead. Tepid to warm baths can provide some relief (but you don't want to do that too often because of the dry skin factor), and we had jelly and stewed fruit when they were feeling particularly flu-ey. DVD's are great too because they distract the itching fingers. -------------  |
Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 28 August 2010 at 11:14pm
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We used pinetarsol baths & Hypercal cream.
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Posted By: WestiesGirl
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 12:06am
We were advised not to use it as well. We used Solosite gel which worked well and his scaring has almost gone. We also gave him paracetamol so he was comfortable etc. ------------- Our Angel July 08  Gone but not forgotten
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busymum wrote:Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 7:33am
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My kids had cp during the holidays. Pinetarsol baths were the best thing for my kids. I pulled put the old baby bath and set it up in front of the fire in the lounge whenever they got irritable.
I used calamine too (which was recommended by pharmacy, doctor and healthline so interesting to hear that others have been told not to use it). Healthline told me only to put it on the itchiest spots ( hard to determine with a 1yr old). I got Mebo anti itch cream for ds too because he had it really bad in his nappy area and would scream when he went wees. The mebo acted as a barrier cream but made him look like the hulk when I used it all over (it's green). -------------  
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Posted By: aussiegirl
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 7:42am
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Pinetarsol for us, luckily DD didnt seem too irritable with it. :) ------------- Mum to Hayley **30.6.08
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Posted By: TysMummy
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 8:01am
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[QUOTE=busymum] Calamine lotion is no longer recommended as it dries out the skin and makes it more itchy!! Pity everyone who has used it in the last 50 yrs!
i use it reliously.....i have escma really bad but it didnt try my skin or irrtate it in the slightest nor my sons.......of course you wouldnt drown in it......and it diffently didnt make you any itcher......i had pox real bad when i was 15 thank god ofr calamine lotion ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 8:11am
| DS3 has them 2 weeks ago & our Dr gave us some & we used it regularly with no problems. |
Posted By: mummyofprinces
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 11:42am
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I cant use calamine for the reason busy mum mentioned... doesnt mzatter what its for it dries my skin out and majes it worse!!! Might be like moisturisers... different skin, different reaction.
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Posted By: Rovic
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 1:47pm
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When I got them (some time ago now), the doc said to have a bath in potassium permanganate (?sp). Can't remember what it was supposed to do, but between that making my skin a funny colour and the calamine lotion dotted everywhere, I looked hlarious! Must have worked though as have no scars and the itching decreased heaps. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: TheKelly
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 1:57pm
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ah yes, pinetarsol , that was also a great help -------------
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Posted By: bun_in_the_oven
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 2:56pm
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we chose to do the immunisation for DS... however there is not much research into how long its effective for... so he may get it later in life ?? time will tell...
I have seen the effects of chicken pox and its just horrible... the scratching.. holes.. and scarring.. OUCH.. just didnt want to see my bubs go through that if i could help it |
Posted By: LJsmum
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 3:38pm
any ideas for healing scaring apart from bio oil which isn't working DS1 has two scars on his face that aren't fading and it's been nearly a year  the annoying thing is he didn't scratch or anything but when we were dressing and undressing him the scabs would lift causing sacring.
Anyway anyone know ways to reduce the exisitng scars? there is one just under his eye which is the worse. -------------  
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Posted By: jjands
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 4:16pm
| I'd love to know this too DD had them when she was 7 weeks old and she has some bad scars :( |
Posted By: TysMummy
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 6:26pm
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i wanted my kids to get especially my boy....couldnt handle him getting it older and finding out he cant have babies........he would be a good dad hehe.......yeah the bio oil didnt work at all =with me either and gave me a huge rash.....sorry no idea what to use.....i have a story to tell with each scare on my kids bodies so that doesnt bother me sooo much ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 10:27pm
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the thing about calamine lotion is a bit tricky...
when i went to the chemist they said the reason they dont recommend other lotions is that it is applying them that is the problem. its when you start touching the spots that you can irritate them and make matters worse. and then you touch one, then the other one and another... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: 4thtymlucky
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 8:53pm
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our girls got them within 2 weeks of each other and the older one did better not scratching etc but the wee one couldn't help herself. We left them alone and just maintained constant vigil..now the younger one has 2 scars on her face from the pox - on her nose and just above her eyebrow..the older one has one by her ear...it's not nice and I'm not looking forward to my wee one and the next one getting it..if only there were a vaccine
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 10 September 2010 at 4:17pm
| DS3 who had then a few weeks ago has 1 spot between his eyebrows I have been using Bio Oil on it not sure if it will help or if anything will. |
Posted By: jaycee
Date Posted: 10 September 2010 at 5:16pm
There is  but they can't have it until they are 1 -------------   
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