Does anyone have any postive stories of a dc who has scratched every single chicken pox they have and not been covered in hideous scars?

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My poor little ds.

He has excema so he's very good at scratching. It's just what he does anyway.

On Monday night, I had to physically restrain him until he fell asleep to get him to stop. He got very cross with me and really I needn't have bothered. He managed to get them all anyway.

I'm just really worried about the scars, particularly on his back. His back is covered in spots.

He's been using piriton and Eurax, he's just 3.

I scratched all of mine constantly (I had a hideous case of it when I was about 7 yrs old) and only have one small scar on my forehead.

I think what you have to watch out for is them infecting their spots when scratching - this is then more prone to scarring. Keeping his fingernails short & clean should help there.

Dd has one scar (having had it badly & scratched) which is the one that got infected. It's amazing how much they do fade, honest

Now that's the sort of thing I need to hear.

Thank you.

My DS1 has lots of scars on his body, he had a really bad bout of c/pox and was really poorly. He has two types like white ones that are bumpy, but on his face he has two crater types. You can see them but what can you do about it, some people say rubbing vitamin E oil helps, the younger they have it the better (except babys). I had it at 15 and most of my scars have gone, but now I am an old old woman lol.

I'm not really sure what you can do to stop them scarring - I think their skin type makes them either more or less susceptible. DS had a terrible case at 10 months old (worst the on call doctor had seen in such a young child) - he was literally covered head to toe in spots. He still (age 2) has about 50-60 scars, mostly on his back but about 10 on his face. The thing is apart from a couple of crater ones which are in not obvious places it's only me as his mum that sees them - no one else can unless you point them out! He's incredibly fair (you can see his veins, yuk!) So I don't think that helps, and he was too young to scratch so that obviously didn't have an affect. And strangely enough the one that did get infected on his lip didn't scar.

When my two got it the doctor actually gave them a really strong antihistamine, as they were totally covered. She also gave them anti biotics as well, as they were really really red. Maybe go to the docs and see what they say. I was surprised that they gave the anti bs, but you may be able to get the antihistamine.

Good luck