Molluscum

[boysandmoreboys]

My 2 DS have it and the the 2nd DS has it really bad and now my 3rd DS a 5 month baby has it. I've been to the doctor who says there is nothing you can do -itwill go and I've been to the homeopath and we've been taking Thuja but it just seems to be spreading. We've hadit for a yearnow. I've just been looking on the internet and there is a product called Silver Cure - which claims to be a miracle cure with loads of testimonials. Has anyone used it?

no I just let my dd scratch her spots and they went - 6 weeks from start to finish

tbh cargirl i think you were lucky. DS scratched his spots and they just spread. DS must have had it for about 18 months, and DD got it as a baby much like your DS3. I felt guilty about that because it was round her torso where we picked her up, so we must have spread it to her. I don't think it lasted as long with her. Because I remember at DH's Grandad's funeral tea when DD was about 1yr an 2wks she had an enormous patch of blood on her dress because one of the spots had burst. And everyone was really concerned but DD was not at all bothered. And that was the start of the end IYSWIM so she must have only had it about 6-9 months.

We tried thula and Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream and getting chicken pox ( cod reckons this is what cured here ds's) and none of it worked.

sounds like the active ingredient could be 'collodial silver' - you can buy this in most health food shops.
all 3 of my ds's had molluscum - with the first we tried homeopathy, various creams including collodial silver spray and manuka honey. To be honest i found squeezing the spots then adding a touch of diluted lavender oil with almond oil made them disappear over a few days rather than the year it took with all the alternative treatments.

I think it's when they get infected that they clear up (that is what the gp told me) so I think dds got infected from the scratching and that is why they went

sorry - my post iisn't making sense (i'm feeding ds3 at the same time) with ds1 and 2 i went the alternnative route, with ds3 i squeezed them

thank you v much. I think I'll try the lavender oil. They won't let me anywhere near them to squeeze them and howl with agony if I do. I'm just worried about the 5 year old going to school and being teased but I guess enough kids have it now that hopefully it will be common.

Could be but its unusual for adults to get it and they do usually go within a year. check out molluscum.com for rather grim pictures! They often have a white kind of head that burst.

both of my dd's had it, for about 2 years each but it didn't bother them. I don't think though that you spread it by contact i thought it was a virus and some were just more susceptible than others and once it's gone, you're immune.
i don't think there;s much you can do, they just go - sorry

cargirl you surely can't be saying that my DS has clean finger nails....

it is contageous (sp?) I'm 99.9% certain dd caught it off her best friend who has very widespread coverage of it. Perhaps dd got rid of it so quickly because it was a very small localised patch and she scratched it within weeks of having it??

I think it is mildly contagious. Pretty sure DS picked it up at nursery.

yes you're right info here: www.bad.org.uk/patients/leaflets/molluscum.asp hope this helps