Any remedies for chickenpox for a 2 year old?
A bath with baking soda in it is soothing and relieves itching.
Putting bath toys in helps keep them in there for a while.
I know this sounds off the wall but I read someplace to dab listerine on itching areas and it really works. I do that for bug bites and my sister in law had shingles and she was miserable until she tried the listerine and it relieved her discomfort!!
Kids Benadryl! My son was about the same age and he was covered head to toe in chicken pox. He was absolutely miserable until I was told to try this. I gave him the kids benadryl and used calamine lotion and he was great, and so cute and spotty!
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will stop the itching
Homeopathic sulfur, available at health food store. Follow suggested doseage on bottle. Also, a bath with old fashioned oatmeal. Just put 1-2 cups in a clean white sock, and put under faucet. When done, this wet sock with the oatmeal can be applied where your little one itches the most. Be sure to use new oatmeal every day. Don't waste $$$ on "Aveeno" products. Oatmeal is oatmeal.
Good luck!
Warm baths with a mixture of 1/2 cup of baking soda and 1/2 cup of oatmeal twice a day.
Calamine or Caladryl lotion on the spots. Put mittens or socks on his hands to help keep him fromscratching-If he scratches he is more apt to make permanent scars.
When our kids had it two years ago, the doctor told us to try spray starch. Since they were 11 and 9, they could tell me what worked best, and they both agreed. Taking several baths with Aveeno per day(and night), and spray starch won hands down with them.
i certainly feel for you.mine were 2,4,6 and all had them at the same time.
good luck
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Two week ago I had chicken pox which had left scars on my face and body. How can I remove them?
By anita pandey
They should fade with time, if they are actual scars some of them will remain permanently. The only way you get actual scars from chicken pox is if you scratch them. My 45 year old daughter has a scar right on the tip of her nose and she was about 8 years old when she had chicken pox; the scar has never bothered her.
No the scars stay forever. I was six years old when I had chickenpox and now I am in my fifties and they are still visible. If you scratch or not they are there to stay.
Two weeks is rather soon to tell how deep the marks are. Some will fade with time and others will stay. I would advise to use good skin care products.
When my daughter was in kindergarten she got a horrible case of chicken pox. They were everywhere. She had a place on her back a little bigger than the size of my palm that had over 100 pox (I counted)! I was so worried about the scars on her body and face that I did a lot of research and came up with a mix of liquid chlorophyll (found in health food stores) and vitamin E which are both healing. I'd shake the bottle to mix it, then dab it on the pox with a cotton ball. When the sores healed, I gently rubbed the stuff in with my hands. At first, I put it on several times a day, then just a couple of times a day, but only put it on her face at night because it's green.
She's 27 now and only has a couple of scars on her back, shoulder, and a couple on her face. None are very noticeable. If you try it, chlorophyll is dark green and stains everything you spill it on, so be careful. It will turn your skin green too, but comes off with soap or baby oil.
I was really blessed to have only one scar on my face (and it was a bad, deep one) when I was little and it was because I scratched it. As soon as my mom saw me do it she immediately made me wear a pair of my soft dress gloves so I wouldn't do any more damage. Anyway, it faded more and more over time and eventually it was completely gone. It would be worth trying Lyonpridej's idea though in case that will help speed the healing process up. :-)
Usually it takes 1-3 months time to fade dark/reddish scars. But a few of them will remain permanently which scars you got badly. Keep applying Olive oil in night, if you have oily skin in your face just apply only on affected areas.
I highly recommend that you contact a plastic surgeon as soon as your pox are healed. There's many options including dermabrasion, laser and even a bit of surgery. For one of my scars they took a small round section of skin from behind one of my ears and "replaced" the damaged section of skin on my face. Kinda like taking a little bitty hole punch, sounds scary, but you cant see any of it now.
