Chicken pox are small blisters that grown through the skin caused by a varicella-zoster virus. It comes from an Old English word called “gican” which means “to itch”. It is an old childhood disease that shows a freaky amount of water filled rash. A virus in this disease is the same as that causes herpes zoster or shingles in adults. When the body is infected by this virus, it automatically produces antibodies causing immunity from being infected by the same virus again.

This disease is very contagious that it can be transferred by touching the fluids that breaks on the skin of an infected child or even when the infected child coughs or sneeze near you. However, having a vaccine from this disease is not a guarantee that you will not have the disease again, instead you are still vulnerable from infection by the same disease but the burden is much lesser than that of not having a vaccine.

The incubation period for chickenpox takes about two weeks and one should stay away from school to prevent form further contamination with other children. Bed rest is mostly recommended to help a child cope with the disease since itchiness on his skin is so hard to deal at this time. Within 10 to 20 days time, the pox will appear thus making it contagious even more to mingle with other kids.

Symptoms
• On the onset of the chickenpox, fever, aches and headaches can be felt by a child.
• Rash appears in a sudden and became evident thus turning into an itchy blister. It may first appear in the face, scalp, arms and trunks.
• In a few days after, blister dries and then scab. The pox often appears on the mouth, in the child’s organ and all over the body.
• A child having eczema may have a blister of more than 1,500 poxes.
• The coughing is dry and a child may clamor for a sore throat.
Treatment
• Let your child drink plenty of water or have an increase his fluid intakes to avoid him from being dehydrated. Giving medications such as paracetamol or ibuprofen is highly recommended to alleviate from fever heat, painful feeling of having blisters and aches due to fever.
• Help your child to ease from the pox’s itchiness by applying calamine lotion on the pox. An antihistamine may help children drowse to sleep if the child’s sleeping patterns have altered due to the discomfort caused by itch.
• Your child’s fingernails should be cut short to prevent further scratch and wounds.
  
  
  
  Natural Home Treatment
• Have your child an oatmeal bath to get relieve away from itchiness. By boiling 2 cups of oatmeal  in the water for about fifteen minutes and after which put the mixture  in a cloth then tie it properly, soak the mixture in the water and after it becomes
• Rub Vitamin E oil in your skin most especially on the affected area. It will help eradicate marks that were left by a chicken pox.
• A baking soda will do something also in chicken pox by helping a child relieving from itching. Mix the baking soda in a glass of water and use it a bath to the body and let it dry. When the soda is dry, it is then that the itchiness will remove.
• Convince a child to drink a glass of herbal tea every day. Tea is the most wonderful kind of a natural medicine.
  
  Some Points to Ponder
• Pregnant women should avoid being infected by such virus because having a chicken pox while pregnant may cause a lot of complications on the child inside the womb.
• Scars made by the pox gradually fades when one is cured already leaving an unwanted scar on the skin.
• It is much better that a child will have a vaccination against chicken pox so that when being infected, the child’s immune system can actively fight back against such virus and the child’s agony having such infection may no longer be that too much for a child to bear.