Chicken pox

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  1. chitting kaz

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    bicarbonated soda in a bath will sooth the itching, then it is just calomine lotion, in extreme cases a priton can be given but check with chemist or Dr first.

    a chemist can tell you if it is infact chicken pox rather than go to the Dr, but do avoid contact with elderly or impaired imune system as it can be very serious for them,
    they remain contagious untill the last spot stops weeping, some schools will insist on every last spot being gone before the child returns to school
    hope little one is better soon
     
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      The post does not say bathe with neat peppermint oil
      It says
      Give them a bath with neat peppermint oil IN IT

      So I expect the effect would be like a cooling to the skin when out of the bath
      like the cold effect when sucking on a peppermint ?

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      Bathing in neat peppermint oil sounds expensive, as well as potentially uncomfortable. :snork:
       
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      Peppermint oil, like oils in general, tends to stay in little blobs when you put it in water. (I know, I've tried all this). So although you'd think the oil will disperse and become so diluted that it has little effect, it doesn't. If the bath water is hot enough, then the oil will fairly quickly evaporate, so may not be an issue. However water hot enough to do that is far too hot to bath a toddler in. So at normal comfortable bath water temperature, the peppermint oil stays in little blobs floating on the surface. Inevitably, as you move about in the water, some of these blobs will get onto your skin, neat and undiluted because oil doesn't absorb water. Then if you are lucky, nothing interesting will happen. If you're less lucky, nothing will happen for a few seconds, then you will get an intense burning sensation at that point, and the skin there may even show physical signs of irritation like dry, bright red skin.
       
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      Yes, I can even remember it. I think I suffered worse for it than my lad is though. The lad is more or less his normal self, whereas I seem to remember feel like death and itching like crazy all the time.
       
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      Thats one blessing then, although it can return as Shingles later in life, thats a bummer as anglers try to pitch their beach tents on you and fish off of you.
       
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