Whats good for chickenpox itching?

Question

I need to know what will stop the chickenpox itching

Answer 1

Oatmeal baths. I'm not kidding. Aveeno makes a commercial product...I would recommend that rather than using the eating type of oats. It relieves the itching.

Answer 2

Any one of the above measures will work, but you need to remember that you can transfer the virus on your hands to someone else. You need to keep you hands clean. Also, you can transfer it later in life when you get a cold sore, which is the Chickenpox virus also known as Herpes 1 Simplex. You can transfer it others, as well as to your own genitals. The virus continues to live in the nerve in the back of your head and comes out at times of stress or low immunity. Getting a complete night's sleep, no matter how old you are, will help keep it suppressed, at least 10 hours until around age 18, and 8 hours as an adult.

Answer 3

Take a tepid bath with a cup of baking soda mixed in. Soak in it for about 5 min.. Make a paste of baking soda & water & cover the itchiest ones with this.

Answer 4

Calomine lotion is a good cream to apply to the itchy bits

Or a pine-tar bath is good to soak in

Some anti-itching tablets would be antihistamines, something like promethazine (phenergan)

Answer 5

Chamomile lotion works. You can also take an oatmeal bath. Whatever you do do not itch. You can actually get some pretty bad scars doing that.

Answer 6

To reduce itching:

I recommend Calamine lotion....or baking soda or either oatmeal bath.

Answer 7

bath in mild bath water with few tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda

or calomine lotion applied to spots

Answer 8

aveeno colloidal oatmeal bath powder

Answer 9

Calamine lotion locally , and antihistamine tablets orally.

Answer 10

pour some oatmeal into the bath and soak in it.