[NAY]  03/28/2013: Laffinfamily from Murrieta, California , Usa: "I'm 48 years old (49 in July) and have just contracted the Chicken Pox for the first time. After being exposed to my husband's Shingles, I began taking 1 mg of B-12 daily, 500 mg of L-Lysine (which I have increased to 3000 mg) daily, olive leaf complex (approx. 1 1/2 tsp - 1Tbsp every 2hours), colloidal silver (about 1 tsp 3-5 x daily), as well as putting tea tree oil on each spot multiple times a day. In addition to this I make the Calcium Benonite clay with ACV and cayenne mixed into it. I put this on and let it dry for 20 minutes then wash it off with tea tree oil soap. Once I've dried off, I put organic cold pressed coconut oil all over.

Unfortunately, I am just getting worse. This is day 5 of the rash and now my glands are swollen and my throat is hurting.

I am wondering if anyone has had experience with adult Chicken Pox. What suggestions do you have for either decrease the duration, decrease the discomfort, or am I actually doing better than most adults? I understand Adult Chicken Pox can be serious. At what point do I consider a doctor? Or is it too late for that at this point?

Final note, I also took an oatmeal bath last night but feel much worse through the night."

03/28/2013: Ejules from Woodbridge, Va, Us replies: "While researching oil of oregano I read on another blog that the person reported good results using OofO with shingles. Do a search for that combo of keywords but don't use OofO straight; cut it with another kind of oil, e.g., olive, sesame, coconut, etc. before applying to the skin."

03/29/2013: Laffinfamily from Murrieta, California, Usa replies: "Thank you, Ejules, I will look into it."

04/11/2013: Ash from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan replies: "Hey Dear, I am a female (23 yo) and suffered from chicken pox but I have recovered in 7 days.. Let me give you remedies as I acted upon.. Take antiviral or antibiotics my Dr gave me antiviral and also some tablets to make my blisters get dry soon and also take b-complex tablets one each day for weakness and just keep some neem leaves with you for seven days in your room so that when it gets itchy you can itch using neem leaves gently.. Wear a gold chain or ring.. Make sure not to go outside for 7 days and also dont take bath for 7 days so that your blisters get dry soon.. To prevent scaring.. Just rub gently with a sponge of lukewarm water on your face and body and immediately pat yourself dry don't rub.. Use calamine lotion on your body and face after passing 3 days.. Do not eat any oily and fried food just eat soft and vegetarian food.. and for your throat let me tell you when I got the virus on starting days I got so much pain in my throat so I used oral drops medicine and keep it in my mouth for 5 minutes then spilled out, this medicine is also used for mouth blisters.."

04/12/2013: Kathy from the USA replies: "Oatmeal baths are very soothing too but you have to be careful when standing up in the tub because it gets very slippery."

04/17/2013: Citygirl27 from Richardson, Tx, Usa replies: "Coconut is anti-viral. You'll want to consider taking it orally (by the tablespoon) as well as applying it topically."

05/03/2013: Lee from Somewhere, Texas replies: "Please consider going to the doctor to get anti-viral medication asap. I had chicken pox when I was in my 30's and it got so bad that I couldn't walk. I was carried to/from the bathroom/bed. Once I started the anti-virals, I started getting better. My daughter now has chicken pox, she is 15, and we got her anti-virals. We are still doing all the natural remedies too, but within a matter of hours the spots spread all over her trunk/neck, so the anti-virals have kept it from spreading more. If it gets into your mouth/throat, you may need steroids, too. You don't want a breathing issue. Chicken Pox are so much more dangerous the older you are. My one year old only got 8 spots!"

05/03/2013: Anon from Anon replies: "Hi, Ted usually recommends lysine for this type of virus."

[YEA]  03/16/2013: Kelly from Murrieta, Ca: "My daughter just broke out in Chickenpox this morning (there was an outbreak in her school). She is 8 years old. I put her in a bath and poured Apple Cider Vinegar into it. It completely took her itch away. Highly recommend!"

09/09/2012: Program Love from Los Angeles, Ca replies: "Do you have a recipe for the lemon drink you mention?"

[YEA]  02/22/2009: Lew from Melbourne, Australia: "Half a cup of baking soda in a bath was great in alleviating the children's itch when they had chicken pox - or dab on as a paste."

[YEA]  12/08/2008: Carla from Greenville, NC: "I became a fan of borax when my son was 2 years old and had the chicken pox. His doctor told me to put him in a bath with borax and it would help with his itching. It was wonderful. He would sleep for hours after his borax fix. I used about 1 cup of borax in a tub of water deep enough to cover him. Now, I am trying to cut back my water usage. To do that I put a few oz. of borax in the bottom of a dixie cup and fill it with water. I pour it over my hair and rinse. Instead of using a cream rinse, I use a leave in spray rinse from my hair dresser. It helps save my well water, and my hair has never been so beautiful and soft. TRY IT!!!"

[YEA]  04/28/2008: Janice from Seminole, Florida: "My grandson is eleven years old and came visiting Saturday with a very bad case of chicken pox. He was extremely uncomfortable and itching himself allot, I hydrated a batch of calcium bentonite clay and smeared it all over his pox marks. I gave him a jar of it to take with him and told him to apply it whenever he starting itching. He had immediate relief. My son took him to the doctor's office monday morning and the doctor wanted to know what he had used to heal him so fast. He is all healed that fast and no scarring at all!"

[BETTER BUT NOT CURED]  03/22/2009: Natasha from George Town, Grand Cayman: "My son broke out with the chicken pox. My mom gave me an old remedy of baking soda, cersie and regular table salt. I needed something more and knowing that epsom salt works for everything including mosquito bites, sprained ankles and dog bites I decided to put him in a warm bath with cersie, epsom salt and a little bit of regular table salt. He is not itching now. I am also trying Neosporin on the bumps on his face for the Vitamin E capabilities. I'll definately do the epsom salt soak again later tonight. Hopefully the concoction works in a matter of days instead of the predicted 21 days."

EC: Can you please tell us what cersie is?!

[YEA]  05/26/2008: Stephanie from Salt Lake City, Utah: "I can't say enough about the benefits of raw honey. My ten and four year olds woke up this morning with chicken pox. I couldn't leave them here alone and run to the store for anything to help the itching, so I mixed raw honey and cinnamon in a little bowl and dabbed it on thier blisters. My four year old had been crying because she was so itchy, but after dabbing on the honey-she smiled is now resting comfortably. I have other things I am going to do for them to see if it helps the severity of thier symptoms. I'll post results."

[YEA]  09/01/2012: Darntart from New York, Ny replies: "I have a mild form of chicken pox and wake up with super itchy chicken pox marks. Once I put a little bit of manuka honey on the marks, they stop itching!! Love the effects of manuka honey!!"

[YEA]  03/07/2013: Shannara from Morrisville, Vermont: "I wanted to thank all the posters of the chicken pox remedies here on the site... you have my eternal gratitude.

My son, then 9 years old and unvaccinated, came down with the chicken pox around Halloween 2012. Here's what I did after researching the natural remedies on Earthclinic:

I immediately started him on 1,500 mg vitamin C and 1,000 mg lysine, both 3 x a day.

The lysine tablets were huge, so I ground them up into powder and mixed that into fruit smoothies (2 cups water, 1 banana, 2 cups of frozen berries). He loved the smoothies and they completely cover up the taste of the lysine.

For the first 4-5 days, I made him warm baths with 1 cup of Epsom salt, 2 x a day. For localized itching, I made a paste of bentonite clay and smeared it directly onto the blisters, which stopped the itching immediately.

I also let him drink only water and herbal teas for the week (no soda, fruit juices, etc. ) and gave him only non-acidic foods (no tomatoes, no spicy foods, no sugary foods, no dairy).

That's all... And it was an absolute miracle! From start to finish, there was almost no itching, pain or discomfort. Except for a pretty high fever the first night, which I brought down slightly with cold compresses (remember, fever is your friend -- don't suppress it entirely! ), he felt fine the entire time.

After about 3 days, he was basically back to normal, even though it took a whole week before all the blisters were dried up so he could go back to school.

I'd been really scared of having to deal with an itchy, whiny kid the whole week, but he just breezed through the whole thing, it was absolutely amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

08/08/2011: Ruth from Stavanger, Norway (american, Working In Norway) replies: "My three little ones are just recovering from chicken pox, so I thought I would share what worked best for me. When the chicken pox first started, they took two oatmeal baths a day, to which I also added Borox, Epsom Salts, and/or Baking Soda. I would apply the oatmeal bag several times during the bath. After the bath, I sprayed peroxide all over their bodies. I also tried adding peppermint oil and chamomile oil to the peroxide. It worked great and smelled wonderful! It stings for a couple minutes, but is very effective. After that, I mixed coconut oil with a salve I have and applied it all over. (Herbal Savvy with golden seal and myrrh, Country Comfort Herbals, ordered from Lucky Vitamin. ) I also gave the kids lots of supplements: Vit. C, Magnes., grapefruit seed ext., echinacea, homemade colloidal silver, and peroxide orally.

My kids had LOTS of chicken pox. The ones that had already developed took several days to dry up, but the ones that I caught early either disappeared without even developing, or dried up in a couple days. I also used the honey/ACV/cinnamon mixture at first, which worked well, but the kids hated getting it on and were quite sticky. My sympathies to those of you with chicken pox, and hope this helps!"

05/18/2011: Synergy4 from Fresno, Ca, u.s. replies: "NO ASPIRIN!!"

02/27/2013: Lisa from Minneapolis, Mn replies: "Never give children aspirin! Reye's Syndrome is very real and not made up by conventional medicine. Just reading that you gave your child this sent chills up my spine; I hope all turned out well. Ibuprofen and Tylenol are safe to give, but are not recommended in chicken pox. The fever helps the healing process."

[YEA]  01/06/2012: Cameron from Brisbane, Qld, Australia: "Neem Oil for Chicken Pox. Yea.

This is our second case of Chicken Pox, read my post under Oatmeal Baths. Colloidal Silver, Vitamin C and Lysine did not work, our first child had the worst case I hope to see. Note she did have a compromised immune system from Chemo!

For our second child I came back to EC and saw the Neem Leaves remedy, I have no idea where I could get them from so I tried Neem Oil applied to each spot as it came up. It did not really seem to make much difference for a day or two but we did not get any but the first few that blistered and the rest crusted over and are already fading on about day five, instead of after about 2 weeks or more. None got really big after we started the Neem oil, I would probably cover the whole body at the first sign of CP as over time with more spots thats what you will end up doing anyway. Neem Oil smells terrible and leaves an awful ring around the bath. She also got itchy after putting the Oil on so have an Oatmeal bath ready and waiting. Keep it on as long as possible.

We also used large doses of Olive Leaf Extract in both cases, which has been shown effective vs Chicken Pox.

Our daughter also had a fever that almost got to 40 degrees C so we used the Egg White remedy(from EC) in some old socks covered with a bag, which got her temp down by .6 degrees in 10 minutes. I have to say I was dubious about it but she was down 1 degree in one hour and was normal in the morning. Do not leave the Egg Whites on for more than a couple of hours, let the feet dry out first and then re-apply.

Thanks Again to EC."

[YEA]  02/11/2009: Vickie from Yulee, FL: "An oatmeal bath will immediately relieve the itch in chicken pox, poison ivy, poison oak, hives, and bug bites! It also reduces inflammation and is a great conditioner for the skin. All you do is place 1 cup of uncooked oats into a clean white cotton sock, tying the open end in a knot. Place the sock in your warm bath water, sit and soak for 30 minutes. Use the oatmeal sock as your wash cloth before getting out. I don't rinse off the 'oat milk'. This will give hours of relief along with shrinking welts."

[YEA]  03/02/2009: Zamo from Johannesburg, South Africa replies: "Thank you so much for posting this remedy. My niece caught the pox on Friday and I went to see her on Sunday morning after googling home remedies and found this. The bath worked immediately and now her spots have dried up in two days. Thank you."

[YEA]  02/09/2010: Rich from Birmingham, West Mids England replies: "thanks for this post. it worked a treat and saved lots of scars. cheap and easy"

12/23/2011: Cameron from Brisbane, Qld, Australia replies: "Excellent Remedy, my daughter who has Leukemia (in remission) now has Chicken Pox. Itching stopped immediately I put her in the Oatmeal bath and she sounded a lot happier.

I am now trying Vitamin C and Lysine, had great success with Teds Flu remedy but as she is so young I am not giving her Aspirin. As soon as I saw the red spots I started spraying her with Colloidal Silver, a lot of spots disappeared straight away but some still became blisters, this is day 2 only. I do not know the strength of the Vitamin C, the Naturopath says it is very strong as it is not synthetic but naturally derived and the Lysine I can't find a strength either?"

08/30/2012: Darlene from Otto, Nc, USA replies: "My 5 yr old gradchild recently came down with chicken pox; My daughter took her to the emergency room. The Dr. said: "It could be chicken pox, " "but he wasn't sure... They did not cover that much information on chicken pox in Med. School. " "And he was not exactly sure how to treat it. " (At least he was honest.) Since he wasn't sure... my daughter brought my grandchild to me.

Day one: She was so miserable; she was feverish, her throat hurt and she could not eat, her body was covered with the pox sores, and the itching was so intense she was crying, she could not sleep. I gave her ACV and baking soda in water to drink, I sprayed colloidal silver in her throat-ears-nose, also put peroxide in each ear, and let it bubble very well. I kept her fever under control with baby asprin and cold compresses. (I know alot of people are afraid to use asprin, but I come from a big family-12 children, and my mother always used baby asprin, and never lost a child; we are all in our 40's-60's now; I gave asprin to my child, and she is still alive. Oh, and yes my mom is still alive and kicking, at the age of 83.) I tried the oatmeal baths, and they would work for a little while, but did not completely stop it. I gave her a benadryl tablet, and before long the itching was totally gone; and she was able to sleep.

Day Two: Although the itching and fever was now gone, she had swollen lymp nodes behind both ears, and on both sides of her neck, and both tonsils looked like golf balls covered in little white dots. I gave her ACV and baking soda in water to drink, I sprayed colloidal silver in her throat-ears-nose, also put peroxide in each ear, and let it bubble very well. I continued the oatmeal baths (2 x daily) with some epsom salt added to help dry the pox sores. After her bath I sprayed the pox sores with the colloidal silver, and then applied gentian violet to each of the pox with a Qtip; of course by this point, she felt well enough to want too help... She loved her purple polka dots. Before bed I gave her another benadryl so she could sleep without itching.

Day Three: She is up early, very happy, feels good, puts together puzzels, goes out and jumps on the trampoline. (Jumping on the trampoline helps get the lymp nodes flowing.) I repeat the ACV and baking soda with water, colloidal silver treatment in throat-nose-ears, and peroxide in the ears, oatmeal baths with epsom salt. Another benadryl at night.

Day Four: Her first day of kindergarten, and she did't have to miss. She is so excited... When she got in from school, she wanted to re-apply the gentian violet... So I let her. I sprayed her throat-nose-ears with the colloidal silver. She took a regular bath, and did not take the benadryl tonight.

Day Five: Her pox sores have dried up, and shrunk. Her lymp nodes have shrunk, and are barely noticeable. She and her mother go home.

She did not have any permanent scarring.

If you use the gentian violet, it "will stain the skin... But is not permanent;" it fades gradually. If it gets on clothing, floors, countertops, etc. , it can be permanent. Bleach can usually remove it from most things, other than clothes."

02/27/2013: Lisa from Minneapolis, Mn replies: "Please do not give aspirin to children! If you survived, it does not mean Reye's Syndrome cannot happen to your child or grandchild. Children really DO get Reye's Syndrome; it is no joke. I personally know an adult who had this as a child, and as a result, had to have a part of her skull removed to control the brain swelling. She also acquired AIDS in the process of multiple blood transfusions--obviously a rare side effect, but her suffering has been tremendous. Ibuprofen and Tylenol are much safer options if you want medicine to reduce fever."