Tips for minimising chicken pox scars please!

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DD1 4.8 yo is on day 5 of CP and is absolutely covered in spots. Her poor lovely face is a mess.
Apart from not scratching, which she is being very good about, what else can I do to help the spots heal well and leave as small a 'pit' as possible?
Thanks!

Vit E oil (best grade you can get apparently is the capsules from health food shops for eating) - just pierce the capsule with a pin and squeeze onto the spotty areas.

Keep her OUT of the sun entirely if at all possible until the scars start to fade.

DD2 has a couple of pits on her wee face, but they are fading with time and Napiers the Chemist Infant Starflower creme daily applied to her face.

DD1 has milk-bottle white skin, and whilst she hardly got any spots on her face, she had a lot of pink round marks flush on her trunk where the blisters once were.

These are now almost faded as well, but they had pox in January.

Vit E oil is great, but it's ver sticky, so consider mixing it with some jojoba oil.

Don't allow an over-zealoius babysitter to scrub the spots off

Thanks!
Anyone used a cream made of ground up sea-shells or something? I had some years ago for scars from an acid-type burn from a poisonous plant which worked wonders...

i would think that sort of cream would be way too abrasive for a child's skin, shite.

would stick with something else, perhaps even that wonder Arnica cream from Weleda.

expat - no it was very soft, like a moisturiser with a sort of pearly sheen through it. Will goggle...

oh god no don't use anything like that - it will make it worse stick to anything oil based

I agree with Crush. A chicken pox mark isn't like a burn at all.

Seriously, if you are in Edinburgh or Glasgow Napiers Infant Starflower Creme is the bee's knees.

I've used the Weleda stuff on their skin too and it's fab.

oh expat starflower is magic stuff, my sis had bad acne and is just smoothed the scars away. However don't worry too much about scarring SM just treat the discomfort at this stage

Have googled it. It was mother of pearl cream. Apparantly number one in the Sunday Times for treating scars. Not a scrubby thing at all!

Have some Napiers Arnica cream, could try that...

Piriton is like magic for stopping the itching which could cause worse scars I suppose. What about Bio-oil? Not sure if you can use that on children, but it's supposed to be good for scars.

SH, we're on day 5 too with ds1. Agree about their poor lovely faces

Thanks all!
Will try vit E oil and Arnica cream..

Snooks - DD1 is MUCH better today. It's the first day she's seemed better rather than worse. It's really day 5.5 as the first spots appeared on Sunday night.
This morning I bathed her with Weleda calendula bath milk and some oats in a sock and then sprayed an anti-septic on her and dusted her with calamine powder. A few hours later she looked much better than at the beginning of the day...
Hope your DS1 is better soon...

I found it useful to run the bath with a sock full of oatmeal over the tap to sooth the itching. Obvious, but cut nails short and smooth.