To ask how to help my DS survive chicken pox

[CraneBoysMysteries]

My poor DS 3 has come down with chicken pox. The spots are at the early stages but he's struggling so much

They are everywhere: in ears, on groin, restocked and anus. He's so upset.

I've got allerief as he wouldn't take piriton as well as virasoothe gel and some pat sachets for the bath

Any other tips to help him survive it without being distressed all the time?

He barely slept all night and today is mostly wriggling on the sofa and getting upset at everything. He's also battling a temp which doesn't help

My son had it last year and we used Calamine cream you get it in boots.
Poor soul hope he gets over it soon.

We vaxxed my son but he got chicken pox in between dose one and two and he must've contracted it two weeks previously .I think they can have it 2-3 weeks before symptoms show

Get the piriton into him. Mix it with something sweet - honey (?) - see if that works

Allerief is clorphenamine maleate and it’s the same active ingredient as piriton.

Both mine had awful CP, but I would say the worst part only lasted about 48h for each.

@WoolyMammoth55 I'm so pleased your seemed better yesterday. I think we've hit that today - less spots and he seems much less distressed by it all. Hoping we are over the worst of it!

Hoping things continue to improve for you too! x

I just wanted to come back and say a sincere thank you for all the posters with various recommendations, advice and kind words. It was honestly one of the hardest weekends with him ever as he has been so upset. Luckily, I think the spots have stopped appearing and SEEM to be starting to scab up. My DH has tried to be out and about with our 1 year old too in the hopes he doesn't also get it.

For anyone stumbling on this thread in years to come, this is what worked for us (and echoed by many other posters)

-Warm bath with either AVEENO oat sachets OR sock filled with oats and clipped at one end. They both worked as well as the other from what I could gather. My DS actually liked squeezing the sock and then rubbing it on his tummy and back as the oozes oat liquid gave a lot of relief

-Massage post bath with Poxclin (the best relief cream we tried). Let it fully dry before putting light, loose layers on. For any spots around the anus DO NOT put pox clin but absolutely smoother in sudocream. Try and keep nappy off for a bit of air to it all

-Allerief has the exact same active ingredients as Piriton but tastes of strawberries so much easier to get down. I kept this up every 6 hours

-Calpol for the really difficult days and kept up doses through the night

-Virasoothe once scabs have formed and not on open sores as this apparently helps to reduce scarring.

Baths morning and before bed with the above regime seemed to really help and we applied poxclin overnight with a midnight dose of allerief too.

Really hoping we are out of the other side of this now!!

oat bath oat bath oat bath. live in the bathroom. do everything with him in the bath!

Hi @CraneBoysMysteries - my 2 yo has just broken out in the first spots this minute - so just reminding myself of the plan we need to follow!

Hope your younger one managed to dodge it?

Wish us luck and a mild dose!

Good luck @WoolyMammoth55 !

So far, so good, younger one has avoided it. They sleep in different rooms and we had separate towels etc so I'm hoping we swerve it this time

Hope your little one also has it mild!!

Yes it can be. Mine both ended up in hospital.

My DMum still tells the story that my DBro has a miserable time of it, but she only noticed my DSis had it at all because she was still young enough to be supervised in the bath and she saw a sprinkling of not particularly itchy but very characteristic vesicles on her back.

So fingers crossed for you that other DS is milder not worse!

Just an annoying update that my littlest now has chicken pox-exactly two weeks after my eldest got it. And it's much worse 😔

Onto round two!

Oh no poor thing. The others always catch it once it gets in the house for the first time. Hope you're almost at the end of it.