MONDAY, Jan. 8, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Have a child with chickenpox? Don’t despair. There are a number of things you can do to care for a child with this disease.
“For most healthy children, chickenpox clears on its own without treatment,” said Dr. Sheila Fallon Friedlander, a professor of pediatrics and dermatology at the University of California, San Diego.
However, chickenpox is highly contagious. That makes it important to keep your child at home or limit contact with other people, Friedlander said in an American Academy of Dermatology news release. This should be the case until all the