Treatment for chicken pox scars

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My Ds has recently had chicken pox and been left with a few pock marks on her face. She is 7 and I'm wondering if people have had an experience with how to treat these to minimise the scaring and damage.
I'm also interested in if people have experience with laser treatments for scars on children.... Maybe not for now but when she is a bit older.
All advise or experience would be helpful as I feel pretty awful about it right now.

You need 100% silicone gel. Best thing (anecdotally and from research) for scars.

Moisturising and avoid tanning. Scars do fade over time and whilst some people will have 1-2 that remain visible throughout life, they don’t tend to draw comment. You’ll probably find nothing further is needed.

Minigroma was very ill with CP due to a secondary skin infection over a decade ago. Whilst the scars have faded, we can still see around 100. No one else notices them.

To add we felt really awful in the early days but were really conscious that Minigroma shouldn’t think that the scars were an issue.

@groma I feel absolutely sick about it. I know worse things happen but it hard to see her little face with all these marks on it. Am trying hard not to show her I'm upset and mostly she doesn't seem too bothered now.

@PreMad0nna ive read silicone gel is not good for chicken pox dents. Have you had a good experience using it?

I too have read that the silicone gel and sheets are for scars which protrude from the skin such as keloid scarring- not indents unfortunately. I was going to suggest laser, but unsure if they would do this on a child? If its upsetting her, could she change hairstyle to cover it at all?

I spent part of my childhood in a Middle Eastern country. I'm pale with freckles and many locals assumed I had some sort of diseased skin condition! Randoms would walk up to me to touch or point at my face and make recommendations to my parents of things to use to help. My parents reassured me that I didn't have anything wrong, nor a disease. I really feel for her though. 🙁

If you have other children which didn't catch chicken pox, and means allow, I'd suggest vaccination.

If it’s any comfort … I didn’t catch chicken pox until I was 13. I had a few indented holes left on my face. They were all - all - gone by my late teens.