Molloscum contagiosum , can anyone help ds so sad with it cried tonight!

[Lilyloo]

I have posted on here before about this and realise its quite common.
However ds is spreading and getting worse rather than better.
Now dd1 has couple of spots on her.

Have taken him to doc who said ignore when he had 3/4 spots on his trunk.

Now he has about 100 on his trunk arms neck and spreading on his legs and back.

He started crying tonight about having to change for pe under the table

Have tried Elizabeth Arden , is there anything else?

Thanks

good point, lloo

I'm sure I've seen threads on this before where tea tree oil has been recommended as working.

Don't take my word for it - might be worth doing a search.

It's a horrible thing; both my DSs had it, varying from 18 months to 2 years, I'm afraid.

dd 4 not at all bothered , although she only has couple
but ds is just becoming bit more self conscious i guess , rubbish timing

I sympathise with you Lilyloo. Last year my DS (now 2YO) had problems with this skin and started getting these "spots". He was misdiagnosed with moloscum and I panicked like made, thought everyone in the family would catch it and worried about him looking awful. Lukily it turned out to be something else which isn't treatable but isn't as bad as moloscum. I believe that it'squite common and also that there is no cure, you just have to wait until the virus has run it's course
Feel really sorry for you x

Sent him off wearing a vest today which he seemed happier about.
Have to see teacher after school today.

Lilyloo, my DS also had this and GP said they could take up to a year or so to go.

Did some investigating and found Thuja cream was supposed to help - got it from the local health shop (can also get Thuja tablets but my DS wouldn't take these).

I applied cream every night to all the spots and covered overnight with a gauze dressing. Did this every night for ages. It was hassle but they eventually all went - took about 3-4 months, so much quicker than the GP suggested. They seemed to sort of become infected - red and weepy - would then dry up and disappear. Maybe this would have happened anyway, but I think the cream helped speed thing along. Hope this helps.

My DD developed molluscum last September, GP said would go on its own but it was spreading and looking dreadful. Someone on the general health topic recommended comfrey cream (actually they recommended 8 hour cream and comfrey cream but though I would try cheaper option first!).

It worked for my DD, one tube of the stuff and the molluscum has gone. Well worth a go imo.

The common theme (it seems to me) of all these instances of MC is that when they start to get itchy, bleed and look their most unsightly, the parent starts some kind of treatment. Whichever treatement the parent has used, they seem to disappear quite quickly afterwards. Therefore that suggests to me that when they start to get itchy and bleed, the immune systems kicks up and deals with the virus, destroying it and all the little molluscum blighters. Presumably the way the immune system reacts varies from child to child.

DD has them just now at a relatively late age of 7. She is only slightly bothered by them, but they are on her trunk and get in the way! There is no way on this earth she will let me anywhere near them to give them a good squidge (I am dying to!). They are spreading but not itchy, nor bleeding. I am not going to try any treatment and will see if they start to disappear on their own once they start to bleed.

Lilyloo I don't know where you are (geographically) but my DD took part in a treatment trial at the dermatology department at Kings College Hospital in London. If you are in London or the South you might ask for a referral to them. They are the only dept I know of in the UK doing actual research and with a potential medically tested cure.

Sorry Lilyloo, I realise that wasn't particularly helpful to you. I like the t-shirt for PE idea. I'm sure the teacher could talk to them all and reassure the whole class that it is nothing to worry about and certainly not something to tease a friend about.

To be honest i had never heard of them until a couple of months ago.

Dd is 13 and has 4 on her neck, caught them I think from my nieces ages 4 and 6 who have a couple on their arms. Of course at the age of 13 she is mortified and very self conscious. What is the name of the cream/treatment that the dermatologist offers? Think will try 8 hour cream.

I know that they are not harmless, but they are unsightly.

I'm sure dh had these about 3 years ago..picked them up from a campsite showerblock...he had them frozen off at the hospital. They were all over his tummy and chest.

second the Thuja got rid of them on ds really fast (though he didn't have loads and loads)

yes, margaritas. Apparently when the spots get to the stage of bursting (cheesy pus and blood) then the molluscum has reached the end of its life.

I listened carefully to my gp

I haven't been to a GP obviously pointy.

I suppose I should have made my point a bit clearer, if you apply the treatment, any treatment, when the blighters are starting to itch, they are at the end of their life cycle so it won't make the slightest bit of difference if you use expensive Elizabeth Arden or cheapo Nivea, they are on their way out, it make take longer for them to disappear for some children than others, depending on how their immune system reacts....

Has anyone used a treatment right at the beginning before they itch and then seen the buggers disappear before their eyes?

That is the 64 million dollar question.

no no I thought you made a very good point, margaritas, an intelligent point

We did use the 8 hour cream a couple months ago but it made no difference.

The thing is the original ones that he has had for 8/9 mths have bled and burst etc but there are new ones coming up still now.

Jan i in Lancs so no where near but thanks!

Might try the Thuja though.

Although i do agree margaritas.

Right will try Thuja and Comfrey (sounds like a baby name thread lol).

Seriously, this whole Molluscum thing has passed me by - never knew it was so common. Only heard of it a short while ago. Has it always been around - none of dd's friends (as far as I know) had it when she was young, I also never heard of it when I was a kid. Is it a new thing?

I am going to labour my point - my dd had them when she was 5 (8 years ago now) and I have known tons of people who have used tons times 10 of different "cures". Whatever was used - and if nothing was used - they went away by themselves at some point between 9 to 18 months. They arrive, sometimes they spread, they go yucky, they bleed, they vanish. Whatever you do or however much you spend. Occasionally they become nastily infected, and sometimes the infection needs antibiotic cream. But even the nastily infected ones go. They are horrible, and it's natural to want to DO SOMETHING! But there isn't anything you can do except sympathize, buy in the long sleeved t shirts and wait.

Exactly Seeker, my sentiments too. Because if of course there was a solution it would have been launched and marketed and some pharmaceutical company would be making a killing.

Interested that watsthestory hasn't returned.....

I agree with seeker - dd had them all over her arms and legs from 6months and they finally cleared up just before she was 2. Nothing appears to work with them - try not to squeeze them as the only small scars she has now are where I squeezed the large ones when they went white and pus filled