Non-Traditional Chicken pox Treatments
Don’ be Chicken, Try Non-Traditional Chicken pox Treatments
Chicken pox has been around longer than there has been record of it. The virus varicella is what causes chicken pox. Though some deaths have been attributed to chicken pox, commonly most people get through it with mild discomfort and maybe a few scars if they couldn’t help it and scratched their blisters. For healthy people who get chicken pox, you can try non-traditional chicken pox treatments without fear. As with any illness, always consult a healthcare professional before self-treating.
Chicken Pox Symptoms
There is usually a fever, muscle aches, and tiredness before the chicken pox rash appears. The rash is itchy and starts as small red bumps that will eventually blister and scab over. When treating chicken pox with traditional or non-traditional methods, the symptoms are treated because there really isn’t much else to do. Symptoms may be more severe in those with other health issues or compromised immune systems.
High Risk Groups
Those in a high-risk group shouldn’t try non-traditional chicken pox treatments without consulting a healthcare professional. High-risk groups include the following:
- Pregnant women
- Newborns
- Teens
- Unborn babies
- Fighting other illness
- Compromised immune systems
- Adults
Treatment may include medication or just careful monitoring of the person suffering from chicken pox.
Treatment of Chicken Pox
Since chicken pox is not a bacterial infection, antibiotics won’t help with chicken pox. Though chicken pox is from a viral infection, the pox can become infected and a healthcare professional may prescribe antibiotics.
Treating the fever and the itching is all that is needed for most people. The fever can be treated with cool damp cloths, showers, or baths. A fan can be used to help lower the temperature of the person. These treatments can be used instead of Acetaminophen (such as Tylenol) or ibuprofen (such as Advil) to reduce fever and discomfort. Calamine lotion and oatmeal baths can relieve itching.
Homeopathic Treatments
Normally these have no risks of side affects, but it is wise to consult with a healthcare professional, especially if the person is being treated for any other illness or condition.
- Antimonium tartaricum - for large slow to emerge chicken pox eruptions. Other indications include nausea, sweating, fussy, white tongue, and congestion.
- Antimonium crudum - for sore painful chicken pox eruptions. Another indication would be a high level of irritability.
- Apis mellifica - for pink, puffy, highly itchy chicken pox eruptions with stinging pain. Other indications include swollen eyelids, warmth, irritability, and lack of thirst.
- Belladonna - for red, hot, and throbbing chicken pox eruptions. Other indications include hot, feverish, red flushed faced, sensitivity to light, headache, restlessness, and drowsiness.
- Bryonia - for eruptions with a dry cough, dry mouth, thirstiness, grumpiness, and sensitivity to movement.
- Mercurius solubilis - for large infected eruptions. Other indications include sensitive to temperature changes, sweating and drooling while sleeping, worse symptoms at night, lymph nodes, and bad breath.
- Pulsatilla - for eruptions for people who are sweet and tearful when ill and require lots of attention, symptoms worsen in warm environments, and lack of thirstiness.
- Rhus toxicodendron - for eruptions that worsen with scratching and relieved with baths and heat. Other indications include restlessness, inflamed, sticky eyes, muscle ache, and stiffness. Some use it at first exposure to prevent infection.
- Sulphur - for severely itchy and burning eruptions. Other indications are when heat aggravates symptoms and eased after baths, fever causes chills and heat, drowsiness and restlessness during the afternoon and hot at night.
- Urtica urens - for eruptions that sting, burn, and itch. Other indications are when symptoms are aggravated by exertion and overheating.
Some people may choose acupuncture also. The piercing of the skin may create an entrance for further infection if the pox becomes infected.
Traditional and non-traditional treatments are mainly for keeping the chicken pox sufferer comfortable until the virus runs its course.
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