MSE Parents Club Part 13

tarajayne

Rhus Tox is amazing for chicken pox, if you can start it today it stops all the itching and they sail through with no scarring!

SusanC_2

hammyhunter wrote: »

David has chicken pox . Calpol and calamine lotion all the way here

I don't know whether it's okay for under ones but I know with older children you can give piriton to help with the itching so it may be worth asking a pharmacist. We found Alice got the most spots in the areas she had eczema so we generously sudocremed those areas for months afterwards and all but the biggest marks went. The sudocrem definitely made a diference because I can still see marks in some places where the spots weren't that dense and aren't normally visible like her back which we didn't sudocrem. Bizarrely the eczema also disappeared while she had chicken pox and hasn't returned. (Although I'm sure moving soon after to a non-mouldy house helped with that too.)

tarajayne

http://www.123jump.co.uk/our-bristol-site but only good by car!

Evansangel

I can do Bristol, is it ok to bring DH along?#

Edit: It would be £73 for me and DH to get a train there! :O

tarajayne

http://www.chickenpox-shingles.co.uk/?page_id=21

I cannot recommend this highly enough, it is not a medicine, so this is not medical advice, but Ben was covered, even his mouth and he had no itching once we started this!

SugarSpun

Gentle hugs for David and Hammy. Chicken pox is rotten, but I'm glad it wasn't the milk IYSWIM.

I vaguely remember also being plastered in very thick oatmeal to help with the itching.

tarajayne

Could find one in the centre, don't know where the station is though.

http://www.playareas.co.uk/Somerset.htm

My_Fathers_Daughter

((HUGS)) Ladybird, my thoughts are with you xxx

BrunoM

Hammy, if it helps at all, it's sort of good that David has chicken pox, no? Because it's not really dangerous, can be treated, and will go away in the short term - whereas you thought it was probably an allergic reaction which would likely be something that stayed with him for years if not forever.

That said, poor David :( must be so miserable for babies so young to get something like chicken pox, with no idea what's going on or how to make themselves feel better I really feel for him.

Welcome back csh sounds like a good time was had. And well done to sleeping baby+mamas
E not there yet, same bad night as the other recent ones, with twenty minutes required to settle him after bedtime, and wakeups at 10.30, 1am, 4am, and up for 6. It was still very hot last night so I'm hoping that is the reason (especially as the heat has broken nicely now), but I am not convinced...
On the bright side he is incredibly cute, and demanding cuddles from us at least 20 times a day at the moment, and as long as you weren't intending to be doing something else (like sleeping) he is a lot fun to be in company with.

OH is increasingly fragile mid-pregnancy she went to a toddler group the other day and got so faint as she went to leave that the other attendees wouldn't let her go and made her sit down, then helped her up part of the hill... yesterday she fell asleep by surprise for a 3 hour nap at 1.30 (then of course didn't go to bed til 1am).

They're classifying her pregnancy as 'high risk' at this point as although she seemed fine at her check-up, she was on watch for pre-eclampsia last time based on bp and swollen extremities, has a family history of diabetes, and etc.
Consultant appointment in ten days but I am a bit anxious about her 'weakness' at this point and what we can do to make things easier given she's still got nearly 5 months to go :eek:

tiamai_d

Almost a trip to hospital for Amber yesterday. Out MIL back garden and she got stung by a wasp. I noticed the dead wasp and she was grumbling (she was on my knee). Looked at her hand and her middle finger was huge! The stinger and venom sack was in her finger, by the time we got that out, her finger was red and swollen and her hand was puffing up too. Sprayed some wasp-eze on it, was still swelling... finally started to go down. Boys have never had a reaction like that to a sting.

She is cranky today too. Boys are happy, we went to an indoor play area yesterday.

Ladybird, very sorry to hear about your Granddad.