Moluscums... anyone had them?

[batey]

Dd2 has quite a few on the backs of her knees, one has poppped today and it seemed to hurt her quite a bit. Anyone have any experience of these pesky little things??

Dd had them. They took 6 months to go, but in the end they did, and she is left without a mark. Try not to let her pick at them. Some people advise poping them, but we left well alone and they went on their own.

Dd1 and ds2 both had loads of them. Ds under his arms and on chest and dd on chest and chin. They took a good while to go.....up to about 18 months I think. Leave well alone as they can get infected as they swell and become quite painful, we used Fucidin cream on them when they got like this. Both were left with some small chickenpox like marks afterwards. My sister's ds in Spain had them and they routinely remove them over there.

never heard of them - what are they?

Molluscum Contageosum (sp?). Collections of small pearly coloured spots, each of which have a small dimple on the top. Cause by a virus from the Pox family. Slightly infectious (tho none of the rest of us got them when dd did). Take an age to go. Oftem found in patchs on the arms and legs. Filled with a cheesy/jellyish substance. Better not squeezed.

ds had them and took about 6 months to go fully. They were present when he had Chickenpox and the area was particularly badly hit but as it was behind his knee they didn't really show. He did knock the top off one during this though and it scarred. However the cpox seemed to trigger it to finally disappear.

There is a thread about this somewhere and there was a homeopathic remedy said to help.

Info here

I take it they aren't painful unless they pop then? Hope DS2 doesn't get them, I have issues with spots that I can't squeeze - DS1 lives in fear now he has hit puberty and DH is trying to learn to sleep on his back for fear of midnight attacks

DS has this - think he got it from his bestfriend who had it for about a year. Started about two months ago and, so far, he's only got a couple - think you just have to wait for them to go but it can take ages. Will try the echinacea route though.

Thanks for all the replies, am going to take her to our homeopath next week. So hopefuly we'll get something then. No-ones got out of hand then? I have this fear of her getting loads (I got a rare psoriasis last year, now gone, that has left me freaked out by skin things?!).Have heard of C.Pox helping with them going, however dd2 had C.Pox about 8ms ago.

batey, my dd got them earlier this year - I was told to do nothing, don't pop, etc, and they will go of their own accord but it may take 18 months. She had masses on her lower back, then up under her arms, and a few on her arms themselves - around 40 of them! They didn't really bother her, although she scratched them a bit. But the wierdest thing was that one day - literally - they went away. All of them at once. Most bizarre. Can't remember when - late summer I think. SHe had them about 6 months in total. When they went they left faint white marks, but even those have gone now!

No chicken pox involved either, she had that years ago.