to push GP to remove DD's Mollescum

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DD (year 1) has them on her neck - I have tried all the conventional methods of removal with no luck.

I want her to have them frozen off.

Dr told me today that the nurse was unwilling to do this because:

i) of location and the likelihood of scarring

ii) her age and the likelihood that due to the pain she will not sit still.

I realise removal is not ideal but she touches them all the time and they are starting to spread to her face. I fear once they are on her face this is going to become a bigger issue as:

i) removal may scar and I would like to avoid scarring her face

ii) even if they are not removed they are likely to scar as she scratches at them and several on her neck have scarred so the soo ner they are done the less scarring she is going to have.

iii) she has been excluded from swimming and their is concern about her doing PE.

iv) She is extremely concious about the "spots" and tells me that lots of people in her class talk about them - this will get much worse if they pread to her face.

v) I have concerns (although not medically based) about what might happen if they spread to her mouth/eyes.

Anyway Dr has refused to deal with it saying that they are "best left well alone".

AIBU to be unsatisfied by this response and if I am not unreasonable where do I go from here?

Any thoughts?

where is cargirl?, i think she may need to reiterate her point more

Lol at cargirl.

DD had these - I picked the damn things off (punctured the skin with a sterlisied pin first), gouged out the stuff in the middle and covered them with manuka honey.

Washed it off the next morning, they healed over and were gone, never to be seen again.

My daughter had these some time ago-both armpits & back of both knees.

The dermatologist put a local anaesthetic on, cut & scraped the inside away.

She did about 6 from each armpit of them.

When we went back the next week & there were only a couple left behind one knee to do.

blimey, it's happened again here with cargirl's post!

At least Cargirl doesn't have to worry about getting her point across

i really hope she doesn't start any threads today, active convo's will be plastered in them

DS had them all over the backs of his legs for about 8 months when he was 3 and I managed to get rid of them by squeezing and by putting something called zymaderm on them. Its a homopathic stuff (which Im usually very sceptical of) but it really worked...I squeezed the bigger ones and then put the zymaderm on and then just used it on the smaller ones and they were gone in less than a week and there really were loads.

Our GP said he wouldn't do anything either adn they would go on their own but tbh I just felt I needed to be doing something rather than just waiting (am sure you feel exactly the same!)...Im not saying this stuff is a miracle cure but Im sure it certainly helped dry them out and I felt that I was helping a bit as well!

Is anyone here seriously conmcerned about cargirl.

I have vision of her computrer having exploded Die Hard 4.0 stylee.

My daughter had this too, the GP strongly advised squeezing out the central white bit (contains virus) or if there are just a few freezing. We left them and they started becoming infected, apparently easily done as they catch on clothes etc, now that was very painful, involved yucky antibiotics and cream and has probably left a bigger scar. I would defintely squeeze or push for freezing if it happened again. You could always try one of those white head squeezing devices you can get in boots, you know a tiny metal ring you press onto the spot, if they are tricky to get to.

I used manuka honey ointment which made them soft, and then rubbed them off and kept on applying the ointment. No scars.

Yes like MumNW I used manuka honey ointment (about a tenner from Holland & Barratt).

Is good stuff in general.

Nothing we have tried has worked here - DS has had them roughly over 20 months on his face but he's down to having only 3 left now so we're hopeful his body is finally fighting them off.

We tried squeezing but DS found this too painful and one attempt at squeezing left a scar (maybe the face is more prone to scarring than anywhere else?). Sometimes they've become infected and gone red and sore but nothing some Fucidin cream didn't sort (but the Fucidin won't treat the molloscum, only the infection within it).

DD's had them; DD1 only had a few and they went within a few months by themselves and DD2 only got 1 spot on the back of her leg and it was gone in 2 weeks.

Really strange how differently it affects children and how treatments work for some and not others.

Sorry I haven't been able to offer any kind of cure for the damned things - they really are awful but if anything I hope my post reassures you that they won't last forever. DS has been quite a severe case and we're finally seeing clear skin on his face again, after all this time

Some people swear by 'Thuja' oil, which you can buy online, might be worth a try?

I don't think the exclusion from swimming is fair either - Molloscum are such a common childhood condition and your DD will have no doubt got them from someone at school in the first place!

Oh and what Cargirl said

posted from work - guess their it system can't handle MN couldn't come back and tell you till I got home

Sorry cargirl - can you repeat that

DD1 had them for well over 2 years. A dermatologist (who we saw for something unrelated) said to remove them with sterilised tweezers. We did this religiously but as DD got older the mollscum seemed to get bigger and removal seemed to hurt more :(

Using bribes (sweets she'd chosen to hand for the second that each one had been whipped off and TCP'd we got most of them, including some on er jaw line. She has a few dimple scars on her torso but they are fading with time and the jawline ones didn't scar at all. For a couple of particularly stubborn, itchy ones on the back of her leg/knee we resorted to Wartner. It did work but irritated the skin around the molluscum and she has a slight scar from that. Luckily she can't see it and it doesn't bother her - probably because the 'yucky spot' was so unpleasant.

our GP said to try burstig them with a cocktail stick - once we'd got a few, the others disappeared by themselves.

DD had them and after about 18 months they disappeared (exploded) on their own. I understand from the father of a friend who is a dermatologist in the US that they are self limiting and do not last or recrop indefinitely. I'd leave well alone. Very distressing at the time but they do go and you all forget. Oddly the catalyst for the explosions and disappearance seemed to be chicken pox in that as soon as the cp cleared up the molluscums all seemed to brew, explode and disappear over a period of about 2 weeks. One or two very tiny scars but all a distant memory. And dd certainly doesn't remember me picking them with cocktail sticks or squeezing them or hurting her in any way to get rid of them.