Well I'm almost 19 and I got the chicken pox...

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NatashaAliza

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Yup, pretty much what the title says... For the past two days I thought they were just bug bites, possible bed bugs or something. But my boyfriend had none, and when I woke up this morning they were everywhere. So I looked it up on the internet and I have chicken pox. I never got them as a kid, ever dog has its day I guess. Anyhoo, anyone got any advice for adult chicken pox? I've gotten a lot of mixed messages, like if your a healthy person you don't need to see a doctor, some people say go.. Blah blah



(So itchy!)
 
With your age I'd recommend seeing a doctor just in case. Otherwise, Don't scratch 'em! Calamine lotion will be your best friend.
 
bathe in oatmeal! helps so much and yes see the doctor the older you get the worse the symptoms can get...my dad never got them and my doc told him to avoid children with the pox like the plague.
 
That's going to be a ton of oat's? I guess if it work's fire up the stove!

Do you cook them first? Of just dump the dry stuff in the bath water?
 
they actually have oats that are made just for bathing in , it helps for a few different things
 
I would see a doctor, I got them at 17. I was out of school for over two weeks and lost 16 lbs. The 16lbs was 10% of my body weight at the time. Definetly it put me in bad shape.
 
Yeah, I'm going to call up the doc. and schedual an appt. Right now its not bad at all, everyone keeps telling me not to ich. The only problem with oatmeal baths is I don't have a bath tub just a shower... So I was thinking about filling up my spare 55g with oatmeal and take a bath in there, I think thats pretty MFK.
 
wow, I didn't know people still get the chicken pox these days. I think in America it's a routine shot that babies get automatically now just like hepatitus b among others if i'm not mistaken.

I had a buddy that had it later too and has scars from it. when you get them young, you don't get scars generally but as you get older and then get the chicken pox, you may get scars.

why are they called chicken pox anyways? do they have anything to do with chickens? too lazy to google
 
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