any idea how I can make my 21 month old rinse his mouth (with salt water or camomile tea).

There is a product you can by over the counter like at Walmart that will help with the itching. Aveeno Anti-Itch Concentrated Lotion that you rub on the skin. You might try giving oral benedryl also for the itching. As for the salt water I have never heard of giving that for chicken pox.
Maywest

my mom use to give us oatmeal baths (i think aveeno makes them) and put socks on our hands so we couldn't itch.

Oh wow, my daughter is 20 months and I absolutly can't think of anything thing that I could do to make her rinse out her mouth. I feel for you. My advice is if he really needs it your just going to have to make him and if he swallows it those things shouldn't hurt him. I'm assuming that he has them in his mouth right. Maybe try something on a q-tip for the itch. If my daughter had them in her mouth I am absolutly lost as to what I would do. My natural health book says to use ginger tea to help with the itch, maybe that would help if you can get him to keep it in his mouth long enough.

Can I ask you a question. Was he immunizized for the chicken pox. The reason I am asking is because my daughter was but they said that she can still get them. So I was just wondering.

Good luck, I know it is difficult to see your child suffering. It will be over soon.

hey thanks...I had given up on getting answers...But Ian is better now, I actually made special tea for him, and he drank it...don't know if it helped, but it didn't hurt
No, he was not immunize-immunizized-whatever, you know what I mean.
He still looks like a creature out of 'Star Trek-Deep Space Nine' though
Daniela

Glad to hear he is feeling better. When i got my son back from my wife after our split he came home with em. I didn't know what exactly it was, so off to work I go with my son at his new sitter. I get a call around noon time telling me my son has a mild case of chicken pox, argh! And he was immunized. Glad your all better.

yeah, exactly, and that is actually why I'm glad he had it now, and not when I'm back working. It's one less reason to be sick.

when my son had them i found the wonder item at my local deparment store called aveeno. any brand name would work. basically all it is is a oatmeal tablet for itching. i just stuck him in a bath and let him sit there and made a paste out of it with the bath water and gently rubbed the stull all over his body. he was loaded with the pox but thanks to that there were not scars.

it sounds like your little one loaded with them like my son. have you tried soaking a wash clothe with the tea mixture and sorta dabbing it in him mouth? it's not rinsing but aleast its getting in there. that is a tuff one. good luck

smvt

sorry to hear what is going on,

Oatmeal bath, I gave who ever had them a spoon and let them stir the tub with them in it.

I boiled the oat meal with extra water, and cooked it till it was a gloppy goppy slug. A sauce pan full- fill tub pour in oatmeal slug. PS. dont drain the tub right away. Just keep adding hot water to it each day to keep it warm for soaking.

You can get a blow up swimming pool, or one of those big metal tubs. My middle child would not leave the tub.

I also found "Caladryl" Clear from Parke-davis - it drys and itch relief and it is clear and it protects the skin area by putting a coating over the area.. Helped my kids
hope it help you and yours.