This picture was taken when Isabelle was really poorly, fighting the chicken pox, almost a year ago. The whole time I was thinking of writing a post about it, but never got to it. So here it is now! From my friends I knew about all the symptoms and the well- known treatments, so I was thinking once Isabelle got it, it would quite easy to handle it. I was very wrong. You know, some children have only a few spots, as most of Isabelle's friends, but unfortunately our Isabelle had it really badly (absolutely everywhere!) and I would not like to go through it again. It's not just dealing with very high temperature, sickness and loosing her appetite. Every day there were more and more spots...as I was told you cannot leave the house until the spots were scabby...which seemed to take ages....and being stuck indoors with my poor darling was not easy for me. My husbands is and always has been very busy at work, getting home late, so wasn't much help either. I tried all the treatments our doctor had suggested (calamine cream, baking soda bath), and stuff from the Internet (oatmeal bath, rooibos tea bath). Then on Twitter someone suggested Aveeno cream, which is not cheap, but I hurried and bought it and it really seemed to work on Isabelle. As she's got darker skin, I was a bit worried about the scars afterwards, and have been advised by a friend of mine to use vitamin E capsules ( not orally, but to spread the oil on the spots). We were using the capsules for a few months and soon the spots disappeared, except two on her tummy, the first two, which were also the worst and took the longest to heal.
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