Molluscum Contagiosum misery...

[outofthefryingpan]

Wondering if anyone else is currently doing battle with this menace.

My 5YO DD1 has had molluscum contagiosum for over 3.5 years.

Most of the time the spots have been fairly small and not much bother at all, however, in the last year they've been getting quite a bit bigger, bleeding, sore and getting secondarily infected. It's horrible for my little girl as they are really painful at times and just keep on coming. I'm also worried that other kids will start to notice.

All the literature I've read says that they're harmless and don't cause any trouble but I beg to differ on this front!

Doctor can't really offer much help as there's no treatment and the virus/bumps just have to run their course.

Has anyone else's child/ren suffered with this affliction for this long?

Looking at the other threads on here about children going through life threatening illnesses I must apologise for what must seem a comparatively trivial affliction but MC is really beginning to get to my little girl.

Oh yes and my little 2YO DD2 has also just started with it too......aaaaaaargh!

Same here, compeed/spray plaster on every one, will feedback anything that seems to make a difference.

Manuka honey worked a dream for us. May have been coincidence but I don't think so!

Experience of comfrey cream is active and successful: you can stop it right in its tracks.

A month later and I'm so glad to see those horrible things going!!!!!!!!!!!

So grateful for all the support and advice.

Not sure if it's the needle pricking, squeezing of contents, or vigilant plaster coverage and textile washing that did the trick (!)

OR the fact that (as some advised) the volcanic stage means they're on their way out.

Either way they are going and my 5yo DD thinks I'm a magician.

TGFT.

That is great! We have got rid of 4 of DDs now using dandelion sap!! :) Another 2 are on their way out too! :) Yay!!

Oh so glad I discovered this. My DS has had them for about 2 years now and they are spreading so will get some comfrey cream and apply. Thanks.

I agree with popping some to help speed it up.

DS had them exactly at the point his legs attached to his body, right in the crease, and they were fine until near the end of their lives when they got so angry looking. You have my sympathy

My Ds had these when he was three, we happened to see a paediatric dermatologist at the time, about something else, and she told me to pop them after a bath when they are soft.
He did not like it much but they disappeared very quickly after that.

my 11 year old caught mc when she was in a dance competition 8 months ago and her dance teacher used the same eye make up brush on the whole dance troupe.she now has 8 on her face including her lip .although it doesnt really bother her its really upsetting me as she starts secondary school this year and i know kids will say something.we tried colodial silver spray and the immune system tablets that come with them from the 100%nature website.we tried for3 and a half months and not only didnt they work they made the spots bigger and she caught 2 more, she also starting getting a feeling of something stuck in her throat and stomach pains and severe tiredness the day after taking the 3 medicines they prescribe.the day she stopped taking it all .she became 100% better.our hospital consultant told us never to take it again as she doesnt know what is in it and this was what was most likely making her ill.she also said nothing makes the mc go and we have to be patient for a year.but she has them on her face and im scared they will never go.ive heard that thuja from a homeopth is good so does anyone have any experience with that.would deperately like to pick them but my dd wont llet them anywhere near them

My DD had MC for about 2 to 3 years. She had alot on her neck and under her chin. She now has pitting where some were (like chicken pox scars). Luckily most of this is under her chin but even so it makes me sad.

DD has had a few for the last 2.5 years, was just saying to DH tonight that we haven't seen any for a bot, so hopefully we are now clear.

Have come to this thread late but my DS had MC for approx 2 years. He was covered, to the point where some children would point at him when we were swimming - fortunately he was too young to worry about it too much. Finally they started to come up as enormous boils the size of 2ps. He had to have the worst ones dressed by a nurse at the GP's. They then suddenly disappeared almost overnight. He was covered in small pits but now years later they are hard to spot. The purple marks left by the boils probably took 2 years to disappear completely. My GP said the boils forced the body to mount a huge immune response.

I'd say the popping thing does the trick. When my DS2 was 3 he had quite a few on his torso and they disappeared almost overnight. We couldn't understand it until we saw him squeezing one outbreak on his arm and saying 'no good' when nothing came out.