Molluscum - Is this Normal?

[CJMom]

Hi all,

My DD has been suffering from Molluscum (mostly on her legs) since November 2017. We’ve never treated them, instead relying on her immune system to take care of them, and by October/November 2018 she only had 4 remaining (those had already been there for several months prior to that). Over the course of that month her immune system quickly wiped out 3 of those 4 and we (and her doctor) got excited assuming the 4th wouldn’t be far behind and we’d finally see the end of it. It seemed like one of those fabled “her immune system has finally worked out what to do” moments! However, now, four months later, that final Mollusum is still there, even bigger than before, still causing her major eczema issues, and not looking like it’s going away anytime soon. This is really driving us crazy! Especially since managing molluscum and eczema at the same time is an absolute nightmare!

Has anyone else had this issue where a solitary molluscum just wont go away? Do we just need to wait even longer, or do some never go away by themselves, and will we need to intervene? The only thing I can think of that we’ve changed in her routine since November is we stopped giving her baths (including bleach baths) and started giving her showers instead. Could this be the difference, or again, do they just sometimes hang around, and we just need to be patient?

Thanks!!

CJMum - popped them with a sterile pin and squeezed the white cheesy stuff out, they bleed like mad so clean them up well. The active virus is actually spread in the white cheesy stuff. DD2 had about 30-40 down her side

Did any of you have molloscum yourself as children -missing point of thread- ? All of my DC have had it (& I caught it off them) but I don't remember hearing anything about molloscum as a child in the 1980s and my mum's never heard of them either.

My dd had them for 2 years the drs refused to do anything and accused me of wanting to cause her pain when I asked how to get rid of them.

If anyone’s still reading this and is interested in what we ended up doing, we decided to re-introduce her weekly bleach baths, and either as a result of that, or by pure coincidence, after about 5 weeks the final molluscum dried up then pretty much just fell off!

CJMom.. I was just reading this thread and interested to hear the last one fell off after the bleach baths re-introduced. That's good news.

Thank you so much for the recommendations, I bought some molluscum/thuja/calendula homeopathic cream that I got from a seller on eBay and the spots are going nicely and not getting anymore-I know they aren't harmful but it's such a relief knowing I can do something about it after 5 months!