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Help!! Molluscum Contagiousum

28 replies

TreeHuggerMum1 · 01/06/2013 15:29

All three of my children now have this an it look hideous. Have visited be GP twice and both times fobbed me of with no clear answers. He says there's no cure and it will one day run its course but isn't being very specific.
Is there a treatment?? How long can it last??
Any one else had similar experiences ?
Thanks.

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barley2 · 05/06/2013 07:38

Despite there not being a miracle cure I would recommend thuja tincture applied directly to the spots. My daughter had this on her face aged 2 and. A friend suggested this, they had gone in 2 weeks. Another friend has also had the same success with her dd after trying for a year. You can get it online or a good health food store and it is herbal.

goldenlula · 07/06/2013 00:37

Ds2 has had them for about a year, mainly behind his knees, but an odd one will appear on hi arms etc. Can I ask though, is it normal fo tem to become swollen with a red lump around them and with puss in them (boil looking really)? I ask this as ds2 has been suffering with boils and styes for months, now 40+ since Chritmas and now the mc is going like this and I am sure that before Christmas the actual molluscum became red and bigger, then scabbed over. I have been asked to take swabs of all of ds2's boils so trying to find out if the mc is becoming infected like the boils, so need swabbing or if this is normal?

merrymonsters · 08/06/2013 21:41

Your doctor is right. They have them for 12-18 months and then they go away by themselves. They don't look nice, but they aren't itchy or painful. They will go away.

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