How To Care For Chicken Pox Child. Since chickenpox is contagious keep your child at home or limit their exposure to other people until all of their chickenpox blisters have formed scabs and no new blisters develop. Clip the patients fingernails short and encourage frequent hand washing.
3162021 The symptoms of chicken pox are fairly vague and can be symptoms of several other diseases. It causes an itchy rash and red spots or blisters pox on the skin all over the body. 792018 A chicken pox vaccine prepared from weakened live varicella zoster virus has recently been approved for immunization of children and will soon be included in the immunization schedules.
Also whilst infectious they should keep away from at-risk people who may develop a severe illness if they get chickenpox.
The itchy feeling brought by chickenpox is one of the infected childs biggest problems. If you want to control your childs fever use acetaminophen Tylenol Tempra Panadol and others. Be aware of throat and genital spots. To relieve the itch bathe the child with water mixed with a small amount of oatmeal andor sodium bicarbonate commonly known as baking soda every three hours.