Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Aveeno is usually sold in the drugstores. It definitely is better than baking soda. I discovered Aveeno when my children had c-pox and still use the product for dry skin.I hope you can find it.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo It's easy to make your own. <a href="http://babyparenting.about.com/cs/healthissues/a/oatmealbath.htm" target="_blank">http://babyparenting.about.com /cs/healthissues/a/oatmealbath.htm</a>
Originally Posted By lilgoofymom ilvdland, it was not so bad on me. I knew the c-pox were coming and went to the doctor at the 1st sign of them and got some medicine (zovirax, I think)That I had seen advertised. If you take it in the 1st 24 hours of syptoms it makes the virus a lot easier to bear. My brother had carried my daughter around when she had the fever, before we knew she had c-pox. I thought she was comming down with a sinus infection.We did not know until later the c-pox were going around her school. Anyway, the virus went "in" on him and he got some wierd kind of pneumonia from the virus. The doctor told us the pneumonia was a very rare complication of the Chicken Pox.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I got one for you. A good friend of our's got her chickenpox in her mid-20s...when she was 8 months PREGNANT. Yikes!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad All (for now 6) of my children have had the chicken pox vaccine. My 12 year old son was among the first genereation to get the vaccine in its widley administered state as we know it now in the US. Guess what, he got the chicken pox ANYWAY about 2 years after getting the vaccine. He was in one of the first groups of studies that lead to the eventual realization that ALL kids who get the vaccine need a booster shot a few years later. So, even if you child HAD gotten the vaccine, it is looking like having ONLY the vaccine once, just postpones getting the illness, unless you have a booster sometime around the age 12. Good luck bloona and I hope all is well with your baby soon!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad ^ ^ ^ By the way we are big supporters of vaccines, just to clear that up. We get any and every one for all of our kids.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo The booster doesn't have FDA approval yet I think. Good thing your pediatrician gives it off label, mine doesn't.
Originally Posted By sunNrainfall I had them twice. The first time I had like 20 of them and it wasn't too bad. I got them the second time and they were a lot of them, I guess I didn't build the immunity the first time. A friend of mine when I was in elementary got them so bad, they were under his eyelids he had to go to the hospital because the doc was worried it would cause sight damage. They were inside his ear canals, everywhere, it was the worst that I have known personally.
Originally Posted By bloona He has one in his mouth today,which is a little annoying, but the others arent itching much, he feels a lot brighter.He is eating well especially the strawberries Smedley kindly brought for us all a couple of hours ago, (huge thank you Smedley!) I wonder why they dont give the vaccine in the UK? Thanks for your comments everyone x
Originally Posted By lilgoofymom One good thing about having the Chicken pox now is that he is not missing school because of it. I am glad he is not having a bunch of itching with this and is eating well. Our luck with the vaccine was not very good. She got the Pox almost exactly 1 year after getting the vaccine. If it was to lessen the effects of the virus, I would hate to think about how bad the sickness would have gotten without the vaccine. She was well covered with them. Not under her eyelids, though. Man, that is terrible just thinking about that!
Originally Posted By nevadarebel I too had them under my eyelids, in ears and everywhere else. I looked like a monster because I had them 2 and 3 on top of each other. They were on my tonsils but we did not know that until a few years later when I could not get rid of a bout of strep throat so after 6 months of continual antibiotics, my doctor decided that the tonsils needed to come out. (I was 23) and when the took them out, they had crevices on them because of the pox marks. I was a senior when I got them and was going to my college orientation for 4 days (1st time really away from the parents at college for 4 days and really was looking forward to it) but the scabs were dry but not gone. I had a lousy time because people were afraid I had some horrible disease and didn't want to talk to me too much.
Originally Posted By bloona ooooooooooouchy He is missing school, funnily enough, this week at school theyre having a special week; "healthy week!" where theyre doing extra sports and having people come in to tell them about nutrition etc. He doesnt look very healthy right now! He feels fine though, which is great. The rain here today is unbelievable, he thought it was mighty amusing as we set off to school in it and he was in his PJs and not having to go out (his great gran stayed until I got back btw)
Originally Posted By smedley Glad he's feeling better Bloona, and that the strawberries helped No rain here yet, it's probably waiting for me to drive to work later lol!
Originally Posted By lilgoofymom Oh, I'm sorry. I did not realize he was still in school. School has been out here for about a month now. What a bummer he is having to miss out on what sounds like a fun week. I am glad that he feels fine, though. Kids are pretty tough. I agree nevadarebel wins. What a terrible time to get them.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 bloona, I'm glad your son is doing OK He must have enjoyed waving goodbye as you headed out this morning! nevadarebel, I'm going to share your story with my DD. After missing her 6th grade camp, a week or so later she went to a school fair. She still had some scabs (no longer contagious) that we tried to hide but some people saw them and treated her like a leper She'll feel a special kinship with you. Pox scabs at college orientation. Poor baby, cyber hugs years later!
Originally Posted By bloona Here the schools break up July the 27th, thats when he leaves lovely infants and junior school, where he has been for 7 years, and on September the 3rd he starts at big scary senior school.....eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
Originally Posted By lilgoofymom Bless his heart (and yours) bloona. That IS a big move. He will be fine, I'm sure. I guess if he had to have chicken pox, now is the time to have them. Good to get them out of the way before he gets to senior school. You all don't have a very long break between school years. Our school year runs from August 20 through May 23.(private school) We don't have very many days off during the year though. Maybe 1 a month, & 12 days at the holidays off.
Originally Posted By bloona ^^ thank you I wish they would change the holidays here, they have the 5 weeks off in the Summer (6 weeks at the senior school) and then two weeks at Easter and again at the end of May, oh and at Christmas. Then they have a week off every 7 weeks or so through out the year. It makes going on vaccation difficult. Its too hot to visit most places in August, too busy at Easter and too cold at Christmas in Europe. And when he is at the senior school,they will only get a week off the end of May (thus the extra week in the summer) So it looks as if we settle for a week away, or he misses a week of school time in May. Silly. We have a local boarding school, where they have less time off during the year, and more in the summer, as many of the students are from abroad, so I guess that that way, they can go home for a longer stretch.
