{"id":134031,"date":"2023-11-17T12:55:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=134031"},"modified":"2023-11-17T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:55:57","slug":"dr-zoe-warns-against-using-calamine-lotion-as-treatment-for-chickenpox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/dr-zoe-warns-against-using-calamine-lotion-as-treatment-for-chickenpox\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Zoe warns against using calamine lotion as treatment for chickenpox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Zoe advises against calamine lotion for chickenpox<\/h3>\n

Most people, at a young age, will have experienced the uncomfortable symptoms that come with chickenpox.<\/p>\n

An itchy, spotty rash is the main symptom, and it can appear anywhere on the body.<\/p>\n

For years, many health experts have recommended using calamine lotion to help reduce the itching that comes with chickenpox.<\/p>\n

But appearing on ITV’s This Morning on Thursday 16 November, Dr Zoe Williams recommended not to use it to treat symptoms.<\/p>\n

She said: “Calamine lotion can actually dry the skin and irritate it further, so speak to your pharmacist there are lots of newer remedies available.”<\/p>\n

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Some alternative treatments she suggested were keeping your children’s fingernails short and using oatmeal in the bath.<\/p>\n

‘Chickenpox parties’, where the parents of an infected child invite round all the local toddlers so they can deliberately catch it, were a big no from Dr Zoe.<\/p>\n

This week, health experts recommended a vaccine against the varicella zoster virus (chickenpox) should be added to the UK’s routine childhood immunisation programme.<\/p>\n

Dr Zoe explained: “The chickenpox vaccine exists and it\u2019s been around for many, many years, and it is actually part of the programme in other countries – US, Canada, Germany, Australia – but here it\u2019s only been available either privately…also on the NHS for a small number of people, and that would be children or adults who are in close contact with somebody who has a weakened immune system, so to protect that person, and it has been available to those people.<\/p>\n

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