Child covered in molluscum contagiosum.

[LittleOgres]

How the heck you manage to get this during lockdown is beyond me! But primary aged child is really breaking out with molluscum. Chest, stomach, arms...Never dealt with it before with older kids.
Any one have a remedy? I'm going to order Molludab tonight, seems to be a new treatment. But open to any suggestions?

They spread across the skin by children touching them so it’s pretty common that children with eczema get them worse than others (spread by scratching). Treat the eczema so it’s not as itchy.

DD3 had loads, I popped them after they’d been there for ages and they went, but they did scar (though the scars have completely gone 5 years later).

We waited and waited, used molludab, nothing worked.

Until I squeezed the fuckers, THEN put molludab on, and the little spot plasters. Gone in a week.

Hello, we are just out the other side of this. We started with molludab, but it is really painful for them as it blisters the skin. This is the regime we followed (thanks to someone on an Amazon review plus a few additions) and it worked a dream.

1. Dab all spots with zymaderm (available on amazon best £30 I've ever spent). Pongs but does not hurt.
2. Cover those that look like they'll pop with mini plasters.
3. Those that have popped but aren't mucky or those that are not ready to pop slather (and I mean really chuck it on) with Aveeno Baby Daily Care Barrier Cream.
4. Try to do the above morning and bedtime. We wash our kids in Aveeno Baby hair and body wash anyway so this may or may not have helped too. Molludab is really hard core, I'm sure it works for some but it is painful to use.
5. Showers not baths, clean towel every day and no sharing etc.

Good luck, PM me any questions.

PS - method above gave no scars.

My DS had this about 7 years ago and we tried all the home remedies and none worked.
After about 9 months we tried the molludab and they were gone within 2 weeks. He did say it stung when we first put it on but only for a few seconds

My 11 year old has had them about 9 months. After leaving them they got to a point just before lockdown where they kept bleeding all the time. I did go against the advice to leave alone and pulled the waxy core out with tweezers. Since then most of them have started to heal up so hoping the rest will go soon. At least they aren’t bleeding all the time now.

Bless, I had this as a child. Don't remember it but I have little pit marks in my armpits and the sides of my boobs.

Not sure what my mum did but she has told me she popped some.

The person who said the chlorine helped. Maybe an extremely diluted Milton or Dettol bath would help?

DD had it really badly but in a small area. I'm convinced it was harnessed by my DH picking a flared up spot and it bled - I'm sure the body then started making antibodies and it went a few weeks after. She'd been olagued2-3 years

I feel stupid writing this because you're probably already doing this. But does the little one take decent multi vitamins and have a good diet?

I used to be really bad at forgetting to buy or have them and forgetting to give my kids multivitamins on top of their diet (which is very varied and nutritious) but when the vitamins started the spots all disappeared

My son (5) has these, three or four on his thighs. Annoyingly the GP we spoke to (video conference a few weeks ago) also said 'they'll go on their own'. Will look into the various treatments people have suggested, tea tree is the easiest one to start with as I have a bottle already. Weirdly my daughter hadn't caught them from home despite sharing a room & baths with him.id never heard of it before he got it!

My eldest (9) has had a cluster across his torso for about a year now. They are pretty small and so I left them for ages but now my other son also has them and so we are doing tea tree first and then iodine on top twice a day. It seems to bring them to a head and then I rub with a towel until it bleeds (nice!) and then put more tea tree and iodine on.

Haven’t gone yet though and the ones on my youngest are randomly popping up. He has one on the back of his knee, two on his thigh, one on his inner elbow. They’re all tiny but I’m hoping if we catch them early enough his body can fight it off.

It’s so annoying as my younger especially is quite self conscious about them, even though I don’t think you would notice them unless you were looking.

So as you don't seem averse to a bit of gore, you can numb the skin using cream or patches, and open at the base of the bump with a razor blade or scalpel and pop out the core. Very quick and no bleeding as far as I can recall.

My little girl had this when she was small, ALL over her face. It’s horrible and absolutely nothing worse than going to the doctors and being told there’s nothing you can do. It did just go eventually. At the time I was never told she couldn’t go swimming

The virus lives sort of in a bubble in the skin, so the body doesn't know it's there. The molludab/ zymaderm irritate the skin to wake up the immune response and then the body fights the virus. That's what I was told anyway. The goo/ core inside is highly contagious and makes new molluscum really quickly, hence using spot plasters and barrier cream. My boy went in the paddling pool with his sister (waterproof plasters and a rash vest) and there was no spread. The zymaderm regime doesn't hurt or scar. It is OK for kids like mine with eczema too. Good luck OP.

Thanks so much for all the input.
I’m going to give the Zymaderm a go, have ordered it. 🤞

@waiting4arainbow

My son and daughter have both had it my son first and for almost two years we weren't advised to stop swimming and I fact his instructor was fully away he had it as they was on his back and tummy and was fine with it. One was on his forehead and his friends started to try and get it off for him as it was there for that long. He picked the main one on his head and it scabbed once that scabbed the rest started to scab over too. So then when my daughter got them I rubbed on one after a bath one day to make it scab like my sons had and low and behold once one scabbed the rest started too and then disappeared so she didn't have them for as long. As far as I'm aware tho they are not contagious and very common in kids. Good luck I hope you manage to get rid of them soon 🤞🏻

They are HIGHLY contagious. The clue is in the name!!

I’ve posted before about this. I managed to get rid of my child’s by covering each one with elastoplast but just the sticky part, not the padded wound bit. I just bought a tape of it from the chemist. Then after a few days the big ones had come to a head and popped. I cleaned those and reapplied the tape and after about a week all the other ones just shrivelled away and there are no scars when the back of one leg was covered. Prior to this they’d been there for about 18 months and we showing no signs of leaving!

Good luck with it.

I’m going through the same thing so thought I’d offer mutual support! Only discovered it last Wednesday and posted today for advice as quite confused about all the possible ideas out there. One of the posters flagged up your question to me.
My 7 year old sons seems contained to just by his armpit for now. Think he caught it off his younger toddler cousin who had it quite badly. Thankfully they have all gone naturally now but it took a year I’d say.
I’m thinking of trying molludab too. Worried about it stinging but would rather try something effective to get control of it before it spreads.
If you want to contact me then maybe we can share ideas of what’s helped and what hasn’t. My original post here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3951253-Treatment-ideas-molluscum-contagiosum

Hi, my 18 month old daughter had these on her body for months, continually getting worse. When they started to spread to her face we thought enough was enough - the doctor said there was nothing we could do.

A pharmacist friend recommended Thuja cream. Ordered some from Amazon and they started to clear straight up. Within a few weeks they'd disappeared completely. Good luck

My poor DD’s legs have been covered for the last year but it’s been nearly three since the first cluster showed up. I have tried everything listed her except molludab as the reviews suggest it hurts and she’s a bit of a baby despite being 6! For the last week I’ve been using a collodial silver cream and have noticed a real improvement.

For us scratching the tops off hasn’t made any difference, she does this daily and has to keep them constantly covered by leggings or she bleeds all over the house (not envy)

We had this last summer on knees, then inner thighs and genitals.
Tried Molludab but it stung terribly.
Made sure we were really strict about fresh PJs every night, own towel etc.
Slathered them in Elizabeth Arden 8hour cream, then encouraged DC to scratch away at the largest to get the “pearl” out.
Once that was out they seemed to all clear up really quickly.

My son was covered in them. In hindsight I should’ve covered them up with a plaster so they wouldn’t spread so much. In the end they took about 9 months to go. We used some molludab and eventually they all started bursting (and bleeding a lot) and then they disappeared, he still has scaring though. Doctors just leave them. Good luck!

Following! My DS has them on his elbows and they have flared up twice now ☹️ he's been given steroid cream now by GP who said it can take 18 months to go....it's so hard to try anything as he's ASD also and hates anything different!

Having this problem here too (hence username). I started a thread in Children's Health but it got no response.

Tried Molludab but even when asleep DS woke up crying from the pain of it. Also tried comfrey cream, tea tree, sudocrem and currently then gave the 'prick it with a needle' method a go but they seem to go red and then just heal.

Now trying lemon myrtle with olive oil, only been a week and nothing so far but the reviews on Amazon say persevere for a few weeks at least......

Hi all - just wondered how you were getting on with your mulluscum journeys since June? My 2 have been diagnosed last week but been around for about a month Id say. They are on their chests at the moment but spreading so I bought Molludab and 4 days in it does seem to have turned them red but there are still new tiny ones... do all the new tiny ones have to get bigger, is it like a cycle? Or can they just fade out? I have now got EA 8hr cream, tea tree oil and coconut oil to try and help the ones where I’m no longer putting Molluscum on. Really hope to shift these sooner rather than later. 18 months seems soooo long to have to wait. So I’m interested to see how your experiences are now? Thanks!!