When will the chicken pox end?

[mummynumnum]

My dd is now on day 7 of chicken pox. When on earth will it end. I know she is suffering much more than me, but I have not slept in my own bed for days now and how on earth am I ever going to get her to sleep on her own again.

do you soak her in the bath, are you using the new calamine cream, if not you could get her to paint her own spots if she is old enough. Have you been to the doctors for Anti biotics - I would, it really helps along with some medised/calpol, you can always use antihistamines as well, ask your chemist what the time span it would have to be with anti hist and calpol
Finally, I have had them three times, because you can have them more than once you know.

It lasted a fortnight with both my girls.

Calamine CREAM not lotion, the aqueous stuff, or Eurax.

porridge oats. blitz them in the blender and wrap in a muslin cloth. run under the tap in a bath and squeeze, squeeze, squeeze.

piriton syrup at night.

anti-biotics ONLY if they have picked their blisters and they've become infected.

chickenpox itself is viral so antibiotics won't help.

My DS2 (2) is just coming out of a bad dose and still not sleeping through after 8 or 9 days.

The other thing we have done is oilatum in the bath with a drop of lavender oil.

Piriton rocks!

Think things starting to get better and slept in own bed last night.

Piriton helps, but I am convinced it actually stimulates her!

Does C Pox=loss of appetitie?

chicken pox affects everyone differently. one of my sisters had it for just over a week while the other was hospitalized because she even had them in everywhere... everywhere. i, on the other hand, had exactly 3 poxes. i will likely get them when my kids do. not looking forward to it. to aid in sleeping, get some dry lavender and rub it on the pillow. maybe for yourself too.

Oh how I wish I had seen this thread two weeKs ago.
My Dd and myself are just over the CP.
DD is covered in horrible scars on her torso and shoulder and three on her little face
She had a huge thirst and slept and slept. I gave her Teedex - paracetamol and an antihistamine combined. I clipped her nails really short, and she didn;t scratch. After the initial day or two, I got lots of books in and a few DVDs, and we just chilled out for a week.

I had to lie down for a whole day with dreadful pains all over and just bone exhaustion: I just couldn't get up, had a low grade fever for a few days, and got a few pox spots, which have cleared up. I had the sum total of one pox spot when a baby. My DD had three when she was 11 Months.

I used calamine lotion and I think it gave her the scars. I stopped using the calamine lotion and used bepanthen after I saw how scarred she was.

I'm rubbing in vitamin E into them at th mo. but they are huge red welt like pits. Please tell me they will fade and disappear to timy depressions??!! Any advice for me on scars?

it sounds like you have done all the right things and vitamin e sounds like a good idea. I may and go and get some later. I used calamine and glycerin for spots as less drying-great pharmacist told me.

Piriton seemed to stop itching, but consequence is it seemed to affect her sleep. Not given it last three nights and sleeps much better. May be a coincidence!

Spots seem less fierce already and sure your dd will fade over time.

My dd is still grumpy and catching up on sleep, but has just scoffed a huge bowl of porridge and blueberries.

We are just debating what to do in this rain. DD wants to go swimming, but not sure whether can with crusted over spots.

thankfully, I have not got c pox with dd and really feel for you and hope you feel better soon.

Calendula (marigold) based ointment is fabulous for healing and preventing scaring. We used it on my daughter after an operation to help her scar along and I have been using it on her chicken pox spots. I get it from a health food shop, I've never seen it in a regular chemist.

Something like this.

mummynumnum, when ds4 had the pox a few months back piriton made him go doo-lally, it was a nightmare!!.

He was soooo ill with it, it was scary TBH. they only thing that helped was porridge oat baths.

I hope you DD is feeling better soon.

yes we are nowdoing without piriton as it definately makes her weird.

Just about to attempt the indoor play area at the leisure centre.

We just had great morn at indoor play centre. Wondering when you can go swimming after the c pox?

Piriton helped dd not itch, and go to sleep, but she kept waking up sort of wild and very, very irritable. Switched to Zirtec syrup (anithistamine but non-drowsy, dd2 has it on 'script for hayfever) and Medised, and she did much much better.

We're on day 7, and I thought it was finished - all scabbed - then she got a fresh rash of about a hundred teeny spots all over her chest last night

dd2 gets things badly, is only 18 mos, and I'm dreading next week

Oh, and Eurax seems to work well - and Metanium on poxy genitals/anus.

x post - glad the softplay went well! Was wondering about swimming too, anyone??

Thanks for the links and advice. I'll get that cream, as the vitamin E whilst good is quite sticky and runny, and too runny for her face.

We feel a lot better now thanks.

Mummynunnum, I would be concerned that swimming pool chlorine and chemicals would irritate the crusted over spots, and would hold off until the crusts had fallen off TBH.

that was my thought!

Yep, and mine.

First day I can see she is really feeling better-yeah!! Have stopped piriton as well-scary stuff!

Zazen, she will probably be fine - my friend's DD had honestly the worst chicken pox I've ever seen on a child, I took my DD round in the 'hope' of catching it, but when I saw her I nearly walked straight back out the door again. 18 months on she has one scar on her nose that you notice if you're looking for it and are less than two feet away.

DD didn't catch it off her, btw, got it from nursery some months later. Very mild, nonetheless has three scars on her trunk. Refused to have anything to do with calamine cream, would only have the lotion. Oatmeal baths the business, definitely.

Ah, metanium on poxy willy and anus. Why did nobody suggest that to me last week, when I didn't ask? And why didn't I think of it myself? D'oh ...

Yes, metanium is really helping dd spots on lady bits!

Just took her back to nursery for first time today. She was proudly showing everyone her spots!

Thanks for the advice, it's horrible to look at the huge welts on her little face and torso - and they still hurt a little bit also

I think she has skin like me and will scar easily. I have a huge scar still from her cesarean birth (almost 4 years ago).

Will try calendula cream - would nelson's brand from the chemist be OK / strong enough do you think, or would I be better going off to a health shop?

I feel so guilty I didn't get her vaccinated against CP when we got all the other vacs I didn't know she or I could get it again having had a mild dose before

Thanks again and hope all getting better!

((zazen)) there is a little girl down the road who had dreadful, dreadful pox on her face - all better now. But it hurt to look at her for weeks. So there's hope!

I think Nelson's is probably ok, but don't really know - so bumping for you.

And FWIW, the vaccination is not guaranteed life time immunity by a long chalk - far worse to think yo'ure immune then get it again as an elderly person, for instance, and at least your dd should have lifetime immunity now. I understand the guilt - feel the same when I look at my dd2 who is about to start, no doubt, and has extra issues that make all infections harder for her - but there is no way of predicting which is better for them, IMO.xxx