Oh no ! Its Chicken pox !

It is unusual but possible to get chickenpox twice. Adults usually feel worse than children and it can be quite serious. Any lotion that stops itching is good. I found calamine as good as anything.
Most important thing is NEVER give aspirin or ibuprofen to someone with chickenpox as they can cause a fatal reaction. There was a very sad case in the paper last week and I had forgotten that.

DGS 5 had a single spot on his back on Friday evening a week ago. Went home with definite chicken pox. Light case, few spots. Cheerful and behaving normally throughout.
Today I facetimed them, DGD 1, his little sister, has more spots than I've ever seen before, everywhere. Surprisingly cheerful and normal most of the time but not sleeping well.

Sorry if I'm repeating previous posts. You can only catch chicken pox once,

You cannot catch shingles, it is a virus left over from having chicken pox when younger. This virus settles in the spinal nerves (I stand to be corrected on that) and activates when the host becomes susceptible due to minor illness etc (similar to herpes).

When DD and DS had chickenpox in their mid teens they suffered really badly and calamine lotion wasn't giving any relief to the constant itching ,so I used germaloid ointment instead which is normally used to relieve pain and itching for haemorroids (Piles),It has a local anesthetic and cooling affect and gave instant relief.

Just read on Facebook - NEVER give Ibuprofen to people with chicken pox - will make it a lot worse!

Scalamine CREAM rather than lotion. The lotion dries the scabs and makes itching worse.

.........or you could even try calamine!!!!!

Sorry pompa but you are wrong. I have had chickenpox twice. Once as a young child and then again in my teens. Both times it was diagnosed by a doctor. It is rare to get it twice but definitely possible.

I stand corrected.

Creams to help soothe the itching include Virasoothe gel, Poxclin, calamine aqueous cream and Eurax cream. Oh and Piriton.

When our DDs were little they had CP which I then caught, never having had it as a child-boy was I ill! Poor DH spent his entire summer holiday (from teaching) nursing us all. DD1 wasn't too bad, DD2 had it worse-I was covered internally and externally too.
Than a few years later they gave me German measles-again they had a mild illness while I was very poorly with swollen elbows and knees one day, next day swollen wrists and ankles and finally swollen toes and fingers-I think it then must have poured out of the ends. It was grim