Is there any way to make a child get over chicken pox quicker?

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I know it's a ridiculous question!

DS1 has just this evening come out with the spots, loads and loads of them all over him. It's the end of term next Friday and he is now crying himself to sleep because he is so afraid he will miss it. He has problems with socialisation/interaction/communication and is ultra-sensitive, we have had various meetings with nursery and school teachers/sencos over the past few weeks to try and plan the transition to make it all easier for him. Missing the end of term really will be totally ruinous, I was SO hoping he wouldn't catch it. I feel like crying myself, I am so pissed off for him.

Is there anything I can do to make the infectious stage go more quickly?

my ds has similar probs with socialization/comm and v sensitive I was so worried about his transition in2 school but he surprized us all and has made such huge progress. But can understand why u stressed about, dont think he contagious by then. My ds had it about 3 weeks ago I was so ignored coz it was such bad timming as he had not long been out of hosp with pnuemonia and he was so weak and really ill with it felt so sorry for him

give lots of calpol and aloe vera gel. once passed the 5 days infectious period you can use piriton i think.

You are no longer infectious as soon as spots have dried up. IME this is 4-5 day after they start - I know its hard to believe at this point in time when they look so horrific but he won't miss the end of term - I'm sure he'll be fine to go to school by Thursday.

I would check it out with NHS Direct or give your GP a phone call & then talk to the school.

Instead of using Calamine lotion you can get various calamine type creams which are much better (I had t'pox when I was 30ish and calamine lotion was a bit rubbish - horrible & cold to put on and had no impact on itching whatsoever). Go & talk to a good pharmacist.