Molluscum Contagiosum - anyone's child had this?

[Michaelah]

DS (6yrs) suddenly has a crop of little bumps behind knee. Thought they were warts but doctor says molluscum contagiosum. Not terribly happy about it. I gather conventional treatment is to leave them and hopefully they won't spread too much and will go in 12-18 months (!).

has anyone else any experience of this? Alternative treatments?

Yes my DD's have all had it and passed to eachother...nightmare when the spots become infected but harmless other than that!....Didn't realise that they were also passed on by water...interesting thread!

Sorry, have only read op, but my dd had this quite badly, eventually we took her to a herbalist at a university polyclinic. She had a bottle of disgusting brown gloop that we gave to her in ribena. They had gone before the bottle had finished (was £6 - concession for child)

Try not to squeeze if possible - they scar easily.

Can't rec enough.

I used a hemp oil cream
Clean towels after every bath

My ds had them for 2 1/2 years . GP advised me to try and burst them and catch the liquid out of them with a tissue so they couldn't spread. DS wouldn't let me do that!

He eventually picked them all off himself, a few of them spread, because he wouldn't leave them alone. They all went nasty and scabby and disappeared in about a week.

Tried the EA cream too which made no difference at all, he just moaned about the smell of it.

DS had these recently and used EA 8 hour cream and they are gone now and his excema is also gone so it sorted both problems out!

They are very contagious when they burst - do not let them bathe with others and if they go swimming make sure they are all covered up.

ds1 had them for a few years, they would come and go, didn't really bother him but there'd always be one or two that he itch. Nothing I tried worked.
dd1 had a few appear but nowhere near as bad as ds1.