molluscum contagiosum children

[MLPB]

Hello, I am new to this so apologies if I get this wrong!

Our D has had this for around 18 months now. They are spreading to her face which is making me become impatient with them going naturally.

I tried Collodial Silver spray twice a day for a month.... It didn't get rid of any although it seemed not to spread either.

I then tried pure Tea Tree Oil, dipped on a cotton bud & applied to each spot using a new cotton bud every time twice a day. This seemed to burn the skin and again no change.

We are now using Hydrocortisone Cream prescribed by our Doctor twice a day. We are now on day 5 and if anything they are bigger!

I wouldn't mind too much if only on her body but to be on her face is just heart breaking.

Forgive me as I know their are parents with children who have life threatening illnesses, but I was just wondering if someone could help guide me on what they might look like when they start to go....

Do they get larger perhaps?

Or give guidance on how or what might help speed up the process. Thank you x

[Theonlyoneiknow]

Bump, just wondering how people had got on with any mollescum scarring?

[greham90]

Hi all, just like to add our experience, it may help some of you. my little girl had dozens of these spread all over her body, mostly around her chin, cheeks, neck and chest, they were really irritating her, maybe because she was irritating them all the time, but there were so many it was impossible to keep her away from them. like a lot of you, our doc told us to leave them, but they kept spreading and spreading and were always getting infected. eventually we got referred to a dermatology specialist, straight away he decided they were too nasty and too many of them to leave, so he froze them off, but not in the typical manner of spraying them, he used a cotton bud that he dabbed into the hydrogen peroxide and dabbed each molluscum and was of no discomfort to our LO, its been about 5 weeks now, and they did look bad for about a week, and there was a scar where each one fell, but the scars are healing and looking like normal skin more and more each day.. so for any of you worried about scarring, i think they would scar worse if untreated. we did try many other ''remedies'' but to no avail, we were worried about getting them froze because of all the talk online about scarring, but turned out it was the best decision and wish we did it months ago.

[Sukebind]

Hi everyone. Just to update you... Finally my elder dds spots have all gone. It took over two years and I think it was really just a mixture of time and popping them when she was asleep. The younger one has been clear for a good few months now. Good luck to everyone - I hope you all manage to beat them soon!

[Theonlyoneiknow]

Well, over here we have had the two biggest ones erupt (and they were huge in my eyes!) however the one which got infected on her face is still a big red spot, was given fucidin which didn't make a difference, GP has now prescribed a 1% steroid cream.

[samjabbott]

I don’t normally write on forums but I spent ages reading through everyone else’s experiences about MC that I felt I had to advise what we did – SUCCESSFULLY!
Our daughter started with two spots behind her knee in September last year, we left them as thought they were skin tags or something but then a few more appeared. We googled it and found it was MC and read not to touch, pick etc as they’ll go on their own accord. Long story short, she ended up with approx. 30 and with her starting school this year, didn’t want her being conscious. As it was whenever we went swimming she’s say “look at my spots” which isn’t great - we know what they are but not everyone does! I then noticed my son had one behind his knee. I took her to the docs just to see if they would do anything but they said again, to leave and advised using E45 cream which does absolutely nothing by the way!
Anyway about 4 weeks ago I was on here and tried the tea tree oil as a few said that worked. It didn’t really do anything for us, just made her skin dry. Then after someone said they picked them a few at a time, we decided to pick 4 of them to see how they cleared up. Obviously it hurt her and they bled a lot but the white lump inside was gone leaving the skin to heal as normal and she forgot about it all after a biscuit!
A week later I decided to get them all – there was no way she would let us get a few at a time so thought to just get it done. Gave her a bath to soften the skin a bit and then used a flannel to rub them a bit hoping that would be enough but she said it was hurting. I scratched a couple off in the bath but because she had so many I couldn’t see which one’s I’d already got so had to get her out. She was crying pretty hysterically and I felt the worst mother in the world.
At first I thought I’d made a right mess of her leg and she’d scar as it was red and she had little red dots where the spots had been but we put on a load of Savlon on and a plaster. We went and got her a magazine and some treats for being brave and all was forgotten.
We took the plaster off the next day and over the last two weeks we have alternated between Savlon and E45 cream – the Savlon heals things so quickly but can dry the skin out so we used E45. This can sting though so we made sure we only put that on when the skin wasn’t broken.
With the weather being nice and her able to get a bit of air and sunshine to her legs, they have completely gone. She had one left just below her bottom but we got that the other day without any drama. Remember to wash your hands if you do pick them!
In hindsight I wish we had picked the two when they first appeared as they were small and wouldn’t have been too painful to remove. When we picked them all off, some of them were so big and often two were next to eachother it was a lot of skin to pierce, hence was painful to our daughter. I did feel awful but I stand by the fact we’ve done the right thing – we go on holiday in June and now she won’t get stared at because she’s got these weird spots on the back of her leg.
Hope this helps!

[SquirrelledAway]

My DS had thus a couple of years ago, just a few on his back that came up huge and just sat there for weeks. I soaked little cotton wool balls in organic cider vinegar, taped them onto the lump with micro pore tape and left for 24 hours. That seemed to bring them to a head and gentle pressure with cotton wool got rid of the core. I then dabbed on antiseptic cream and covered with a plaster for a couple of days. It took about 4 weeks to zap them all (just did one or two at a time with a few days inbetween, he probably only had a dozen or so), they didn't scar and didn't reoccur.

[Theonlyoneiknow]

Has anyones DC had mollescum twice? Ds gave it to Dd. His eventually went about 18months ago. She still has it. To my.horror I have spotted what looks like two tiny mollescum on his face :-(

For some reason I didn't think you could get it twice but looks like I am wrong. Arghhhhhhhbh

[lisalocket2003]

My 6 year old son first developed a few spots about 14 weeks ago and now has over 100 over his torso, genitals and neckline. There are over 100 and seem to be spreading at a very fast pace! The docs have said to leave them however at the rate they are spreading he will be covered by Christmas! After many many hours of Internet research I have just covered each spot in Bazooka verruca gel as it contains saliysilic acid which quite a few places have said is effective. There is no chance my boy will let me squeeze them so hopefully this will work! I will let you know in 7 days as there are so many differing opinions, you don't know what to do for the best. FINGERS CROSSED and wish us luck!

[taxi4ballet]

My dd got this when she was about 4, and we were told it would be quite a long time before it cleared up. She had always enjoyed swimming, and wanted to go but GP said no, as it is contagious and she would have to wait until it cleared up.

After about a year and a half, she was desperate to go the pool, and as luck would have it I managed to get a swimsuit which covered up all the 'active' spots and took her anyway, hoping that nobody would notice.

Like a miracle, the spots started to disappear about a week later and were completely gone in a fortnight.

I swear it was the chlorine in the water...

[Vickisuli]

DD still got hers, I'm going with leaving them for now as they aren't bothering her much.

But re chicken pox, it does seem magic, in a way it's a shame they can only get it once. It got rid of my other daughter's head lice which we had struggled with for ages! Didn't do the nit comb for weeks due to spots under hair, and thought she would be covered in millions but they were gone.

[Norfolkandchance1234]

I haven't read this whole thread but wanted to add that my DS had this and after some research I bought this to apply and it went very quickly

www.expresschemist.co.uk/product_2655_panoxyl-aquagel-10-40g.html

[Norfolkandchance1234]

This worked brilliantly

[Jochaloner74]

My daughter is covered in them. I wouldn't know where to start with squeezing them. Do you need to squeeze all of them?

[chickinjeans]

in the process of trying ZymaDerm for Molluscum Contagiosum... nothing has worked till now, I wish the Drs would of done something when I pointed out he had just one... there's about 20 now over his body, the biggest (which was the first) popped last week, now it looks infected.... :(

[BikeRunSki]

Dd (3) had these until very recently. At Christmas one got infected - swollen and full of pus - to the point that we took her to the Minor Injuries clinic in case they thought she needed antibiotics. She didn't and it has taken about 3 weeks for the infected one to heal, but it's healed completely and all the others have gone too. I think it's something to do with the infection making the child's body realise that it needs to make antibodies, which helps the uninfected spots too.

[Ryanjohn96]

Hi, my son had this for almost 2 yrs & what i found was it was best to just leave them. They get bigger & quite angry looking when they are dying.

[Tookawrongturnsomewhere]

Hi, anyone about..my son has them under his chin.. Loads of them.. And then various ones not in a cluster over his body.. The doc has prescribed some ointment.. The consultant said an op could be possibility.. I'm thinking more homeopathy tho.. They are all fairly small and skin colored apart from one on chin which was infected and one he's scratched. Its difficult to know best way forward... I was thinking to test the burning solution on one u can't really see first.. Kids are calling him names.. And he's got a couple around eyes.. Won't touch those tho,, can they still swim during this time? I guess not when treatment is started?