What medicine do children take for chickenpox

At present, there is no specific treatment method for chickenpox, mainly symptomatic treatment and prevention of secondary skin infection, keeping clean and preventing scratching. For patients with disseminated chickenpox with low immune function, neonatal chickenpox or severe cases such as chickenpox pneumonia and encephalitis, antiviral drugs can be used as early as possible. For example, acyclovir is the first antiviral drug for the treatment of varicella zoster virus, but it must be used within 24 hours after onset. The best effect is to use alpha interferon to inhibit the recurrence of the virus, prevent the spread of the virus, promote the healing of skin lesions, accelerate the recovery of the disease, reduce mortality. In addition, chickenpox also needs external drug treatment, local treatment to itching and prevention of infection, can be external rubbing calamine lotion, if the rash is broken or secondary infection, can use 1% purple solution.