Chicken pox, if it seems that calamine lotion is not working is there anything else i could use?

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My little girl has chicken pox, her brother had it a few weeks ago and he was fine with the lotion but, it does not seem to have any effect on my daughter. Is there anything else out there i can use to try to stop her scratching and being very irritable?

Some oral anti-histamine might help, like Piriton. It helped my DS a bit, though he was still quite irritable.
My DD is poorly today too (sickness). Why does this always happen on holiday days?

Do you have any porridge oats? If so, put a couple of handfuls into some sort of cloth back (a stocking will do fine though not a fishnet one), run her a bath with the bag under the tap or dangling in the water. You could also soak a muslin or something in the oatmeal water and wipe her down with it.

When I was a kid the prescribed remedy was Phenergan, basically an antihistamime, as well as calamine etc. How old is your DD? If she is really itchy and not too young, ask a pharmacists for a mild antihistamine tablet for her.

She is 3 years just. Are they ok to have piriton at that age then, (childrens one of course) will try that and maybe i might have a few mins peace

I found Eurax worked well for DS

Bicarb of soda in the bath works aswell if you don't have porridge oats

Yes, they can have piriton at 3

Thanks will give them ago and hopefully make her feel a bit better x

Eurax is much better than calamine, the pharmacist reccomended that and piriton.

The pharmacist wouldn't let me have Eurax but my dd was 2, but she was in agony all around her little bum

Used bicarbonate in the bath on my two - not sure if it helped - but it feels like you're doing something. Maybe make sure that the bath is almost tepid too as a cool bath can be quite soothing.

Just started a new thread without noticing that this one was already on. Could I ask here what people use to clean / treat chicken pox spots on a child's face? DD is 7 and looking more like a teenager

I went to pharmacy to get calamine yesterday and they offered me the lotion or a tub of calamine and aqueous cream - more moisturisey than just the lotion apparently! If they just won't stop scratching it's possible this might minimise scarring, I'm thinking, if it's more moisturised.

My daughter had anti histamine, speak with your pharmacist. She had chicken pox when she was 2. Calamine worked as did lavender oil in the bath or directly on the spots.

Tepid bath too.

Try this or this is meant to be good.

Also piriton every 4 hours.

I'd recommend some of the more 'natural' (ie non-chemical/pharmaceutical remedies available. My son has chicken pox as we speak and has responded well to oatmeal baths with a drop of essential lavender oil, pawpaw cream to ease the itch and moisturize, aloe vera (handily growing in our garden), but especially colloidal silver spray directly on the spots, and the homeopathic remedy rhus tox at regular intervals. He is experiencing a very mild outbreak as a result and his energy and appetite are back after four days. I gave him kids panadol initially when his temp was running high, but that's the only pharmaceutical I have used. I wouldn't recommend calamine, too drying too quickly and risks scarring by all accounts.

By the way, out of his class of 10 pre-primary 5 and 6 year olds, 8 that I know of currently have chicken pox, including 4 who were vaccinated. Fortunately this is appening during the school holidays, so they'll all be well in time for the new term.