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Ailment: Chicken pox![](images/FaceAilment.jpg)
Remedy: Oatmeal bath![](images/FaceRemedy.jpg)
An oatmeal bath gives immediate relief to itching from insect bites, chicken pox, poison ivy, poison oak and hives. It reduces inflammation and is a great skin conditioner.
Put 1 cup of uncooked oats in a clean cotton sock, and tie the open end in a knot. Place the sock in a large pot of warm water and let it soak for 30 minutes. Run your bath, and tip the water and sock into the bath. Use the oatmeal sock like a washing flannel. Don't rinse off the oat water when you get out, just dry yourself as normal. It gives hours of relief.
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Remedy (new) posted by David Niven Miller of Perth, WA, Australia on 26 April 2010 at 18:29 105
Take a lukewarm oatmeal bath once per day to relieve itching. Very effective
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