Chicken pox

All 3 of my sons have chicken pox (15, 9, and 15 months). They have them quite bad, they are all covered head to toe. Nothing I'm using/doing seems to be helping them with the itchiness. They've been having oat baths, I've used calamine lotion and a foam thing from the pharmacy. Also given antihistamine. Does anyone have any tips?

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Oatmeal baths and eucerin baby eczema cream may help bc it has oatmeal in it

My son at 6month had it. Keep the house cold. That seem to help him from break out more

I've heard great things about oatmeal baths. Once they are healed, make sure their vaccinations are up to date. Kids have been getting sick with Polio too and that leaves more than scars

I put the oat meal in a sock or bottom of tights and keep dabbing over the area whilst in shower . The shower helps the water on the area tho has to be don’t at least twice a day so can be tiring but once it’s done it’s done. I applied a chamomile lotion on glass bottle from boots

Silly question maybe but - were they vaccinated? I thought chicken pox were no longer a thing among kids

@Jenny yeah they're all up to date with their vaccinations. From the sounds of it it's doing the rounds in my area (Hertfordshire, UK)

@Jenny The chickenpox vaccine isn't a thing in the UK... unless you pay for it.

@Amy what a bummer! Hoping they recover quickly

@Claire ah…makes sense-thanks!