Child Care & First Aid : Children With Chicken Pox

To treat children with chicken pox, give them Tylenol or Motrin to reduce fever, keep their skin clean and dry with regular bathing and give them an oral antihistamine to help with the itching. Take care of the chicken pox, which is a highly-contagious one-time illness, with expertise from a registered nurse in this free video on child care.

Expert: Beverly Bitterman
Contact: www.beverlybitterman.com
Bio: Beverly Bitterman began her career as a registered nurse working in Cardiac Intensive Care.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

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• first aid
• child care
• children's health
• family health
• cuts and scrapes
• burns
• medicine

[kankarya]

I am almost 14 and ive got C.pox

[simosymoswymo]

i'm 13 years old and one day i randomly got pox

at first i thought that it was acne or something but that was until i started itching like crazy! oh well no school for a few weeks!

[hotmzzgirlz]

I just got Pox yesterday! :(

[moustARTchios]

I have a ALOT of red bumps that are itchy, but not like crazy. theyre on my chest,stomach,back and a bit on my arms. they look like mosquito bites except theyre a more oval shape and they're pink-red do i have chicken pox??? PLZ HELP!

[Annihilator1111]

hi if you get chicken pox would you need to worry

[cheer56781]

I have em, there going around my school like crazy. Half the school has it like 4 or 5 people are in the hospital because of em

[NorwaySweety]

i`ve got them now but it feel like im gona die .... im so tired all the time....

[disneystarlet1]

i've got chicken pox right now

[MissGrafin]

Nearly 23 and just had a confirmed case... FML. On the plus side - time off work!! :D

[heon123ify]

@ginbloodemo Wow have u visited a docter just get lots of sleep and you'll be fine. this is what i did i stayed up till 3 in the mornin and felt reallly tired. i slept for more than 10 hours. i kept doing that until i felt i could actually walk again. It may be hard to sleep but keep tryin. work out in the end :D

[ToroBeast7]

@heon123ify pretty much when everything is scabbing over and there are all gone then i think your good i still had scabs and i went to football and threw up a couple time but i felt fine