Child's skin infection on face and no one cares

I do remember that one course of antibiotics didn't cure my daughters infection, but the gp prescribed another course which got rid.

I don't think it looks like molluscum or perioral dermatitis. Had years of experience with both.

I think it could be this : https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21458-perioral-dermatitis
Have you tried getting her non-fluroide toothpaste?
However it may likely be caused by fusiform bacteria and in that case this would be the solution : Perioral dermatitis is a facial folliculitis provoked by moisturisers and topical steroids. Perioral dermatitis is treated with tetracycline antibiotics for six weeks or so.
4 to 5 days of antibiotics will do nothing.

It sounds like some sort of infection to me. A lot of these sort of things are now antibiotic-resistant; I would continue going to the the GP - and take pictures wery time she has an outbreak. Our GP has a function where you can submit a photo with an appointment request, I think you need to continue doing that. I'm sure they will have to refer you to the dermatologist eventually. Once you have an appointment with the dermatologist, you can start calling them saying you need an earlier appointment. Its exhausting but if you cant afford a private doctor that's basically all you can do.

Agree, phone dermatology secretary, every time you ring its notes on your file, every time yuh ask how long it's gonna be.

When DS had Molluscum, I applied Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, and it was miraculous. It cleared it all up in a few weeks and it never returned. I now use it for all kinds of skin issues and it's wonderful!

I used a really good silver gel which is combined with lavender. Got it on Amazon. I swear by silver for rashes.

Doesn't look anything like molluscum.

It’s not molluscum.

Have you tried calling the dermatology team secretary, and very politely explaining that you are so sorry to call and you know they are very busy but if there is any way your daughter could be seen quicker as its causing her so nuch enotional distress, you will take short notice cancellations, can come anytime etc. More than once I have got lucky with them saying, 'I have just had a cancellation for this afternoon if you can get here in a couple of hours
I think this is good advice. Amazingly my partner has been able to get an appointment brought forward by going into the hospital and to the clinic and talking to the receptionist.
I have no idea how.

Hibiscrub is a good shout. Is your daughter really good at not touching / picking OP? Do you change her pillowcase and towels when she gets an outbreak ?

This does not look like molluscum. Don’t waste your money on a herbalist.
I don’t think the GP did anything wrong here. They are a generalist and a specialist would have expected the GP to a) give it time to settle by itself b) try simple things first over a few months. It sounds like they have referred at the appropriate point. It’s not their fault that there is a wait for dermatology. What they can do is to send an ‘expedite request’ with recent photos explaining the impact on your daughter.

I don't think it looks anything like Molloscum, after 2 years of experience with it.

The key search term I would use would be "registered western medical herbalist".

To be honest private GPs can start at that for just the appointment without meds.

Could it be impetigo? I found that we needed oral antibiotics to clear it up, creams didn't work.

Hi,

I have seen on amazon reviews with photos people have applied this to the body, I think it's common in the joints of knees and elbows too.

That Molludab website has many informative videos so you could have a look there.

Yes it needs to be applied to every spot.

There is a small spreader type thing and it actually looks like not much is going on, but if you shine a torch you can see liquid has been applied with the spreader. I got DC to hold torch towards face while I applied it, some teamwork haha.

My understanding in laymans terms is molluscum contagiosum basically goes unnoticed by the body and molludab breaks it down and then the body realises there's a problem and intervenes, scabbing it over and healing the skin.

I really do feel for you as I was googling and felt so sorry for DC and confidence I felt was at risk of being affected, classmates commenting etc.

I'm obviously not a doctor but it does look similar with the photos you have posted. We had little white ones and some grew much larger. If they got caught they'd bleed.

Check the Molludab website and the amazon link they have in their website to read amazon reviews too.

Feel free to ask any other questions x

it's in the OP.

Apologies if already suggested but have they been prescribed anything anti fungal?

I also agreere molluscum, my little one had it, antibiotics helped when got infected, but we were told there was no real cure, some respond to molludab, but ultimately like any virus it just has to burn itself out which we were told takes up to 18 months. This advice came from gp sending a photo to dermatology, which can be quicker than getting an appointment

Have you tried calling the dermatology team secretary, and very politely explaining that you are so sorry to call and you know they are very busy but if there is any way your daughter could be seen quicker as its causing her so nuch enotional distress, you will take short notice cancellations, can come anytime etc. More than once I have got lucky with them saying, 'I have just had a cancellation for this afternoon if you can get here in a couple of hours'.

It could be molluscum. If you get your phone camera out and zoom on some spots, can you see an indent in the middle of a spot? It's like a donut hole that doesn't go all the way through. If so then it's likely molluscum. It's spread from the liquid from the spots. My eldest had this as a baby. Each night I would gently squeeze each spot. If it popped I would hold the cotton pad in place until it stopped oozing then I covered the spot in witchhazel gel. It did begin to clear after this. This is actually against medical advice which is to leave the spots alone - but it worked for us.

OP, going slightly against the grain here but I have dreadfully sensitive skin and suffered badly with spots in my twenties. I tried every cream, lotion, potion under the sun and it just got worse or stayed the same. Tried antibiotics but no joy. I started to realise that my skin couldn’t cope with being scrubbed or any of these potions or lotions, so I started just splashing by my face with very cold water in the morning and patting dry. Then used a small amount of sebum control moisturiser from garnier.
Evening I would just dab a bit of garnier face wash on, but not scrub or even rub it in. Literally let it touch my face and then rinsed with warm water and then splashed with cold. Pat dry again, no rubbing. Again with a little bit of sebum control moisturiser afterwards.
My skin improved massively.

Even to this day, if I dare rub/scrub or use any kind of toner on my face, I get awful whiteheads all over.
A few days of splashing very cold water on my face and it clears up.
I’d seriously try this technique and see what happens. Some skin just breaks out more the more you use on it. My skin thrives with cold water.

My DC had a weird spot on his face, I used Benzoyl Peroxide spot cream I use on myself, used a tiny bit a couple of times and it disappeared.

If its an infection, then every time its popped its spreads a bit more. Also second trying a pharmacy.