In thinking a tiny little bit of Piriton for my chicken pox covered 6mo DD will be ok?

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DD has caught chicken pox from DS. I've put the gel on her body but she has loads of spots on her head/face, particularly around the eyes. I can't put any lotions/creams on her face as she'll rub them off.

DS has been using Piriton but it says it's not recommended for under one. I've given her Calpol but the pharmacist couldn't recommend anything else to me.

I guess I'm asking WWYD?

Tastymuffins I think you meant the pocks not the pox :o

try some aqueous calamine cream, flipping wonderful stuff and not at all messy

Another here who recommends Poxclin. Brilliant stuff!!

Aaaaaw poor baby give her a hug from me!

Will do, thanks Fabby

The Dr should be fine to prescribe it and can work out the dose from the BNF, but I would seek advice first.

DS was prescribed piriton at 6 months old for food allergies. The dose was 2.5ml.

BNF for Children

Have a look on here, it'll tell you what you need to know. Sorry, I'm off to bed now but it's easy enough to find!

I'm a paeds nurse and you can def give 2.5mls 3 times a day. It will help with the itch and hopefully settle your wee one. Calomine lotion is not recommended anymore, just leave the spots to dry up on there own.

I could have found you the dose in my BNF but because I don't know your ds history I would never advise taking meds without advice from his Dr first.

I'm a paeds nurse and you can def give 2.5mls 3 times a day. It will help with the itch and hopefully settle your wee one. Calomine lotion is not recommended anymore, just leave the spots to dry up on there own.

Meant to say 6 hours between doses.

I'm a HV but still wouldn't recommend a med on this forum without her taking advice first because you don't know his medical history. I'm a prescriber as well!

Haven't read all the other posts but can tell you that if you go to GP they will be very likely to prescribe piriton in this situation. My DS was prescribed piriton under 1 for very bad itchy skin (eczema) and hayfever. My neighbour is a GP and both her kids had piriton under 1 (she encouraged me to get piriton for my DS as I'd assumed they wouldn't prescribe it).

One of the reasons they stopped prescribing it, I'm told, apart from a general caution about prescription meds in unders 1s, is that parents were often using it to cause drowsiness (especially before flights) to encourage kids to sleep longer..........

By the way, these days we have cetirizene (sp??) which is a non-drowsy antihistimene and could be prescribed as an alternative.

Thing is about dosage is that if you don't give enough its pointless and too much is dangerous. Please see/speak to gp before giving a medicine nor recommended for your child's age on the bottle.