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Molluscum contagiosum!!

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Seaside05 · 08/04/2020 22:53

I, a fully grown adult, have developed a children’s skin condition that I’ve never heard of before in my life - molluscum. Two months ago I had the bigger spots frozen off, which went well, very painful but no scarring. However, the clinic I had them frozen off is now closed due to coronavirus so I can’t return to have the remaining spots (which are now large enough to treat). I am desperate for a cure! What have you tried on yourselves or your children that has worked?

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ReallyLoveChickens · 08/04/2020 22:54

Bazuka! It will be gone in days.

Borington · 08/04/2020 22:56

Molludab worked for us. Have you tried that?

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Seaside05 · 08/04/2020 23:43

@Borington I have read quite critical reviews of Molludab. Did you experience adverse effects? I have ordered potassium hydroxide after reading some articles on its use on molluscum in medical journals. The spots are making me so depressed

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Barbartheeleephant · 08/04/2020 23:48

I know this sounds odd but pick them. I was told by a doctor they’re like vurucca and hide from the body’s immune system. If you pick them and make them bleed they heal. I’ve tried it and it works. After having them for years.

Southernemmy · 09/04/2020 04:44

I agree with Barbartheelephant here. My son had them and I was given the advice to do the same. Actually what I was told is try to pull the head out so the root comes out with some sterilised tweezers. Couldn’t do it for all of them and some did bleed but massive improvement within a few days then I went back for the rest. Grim but it worked.

Borington · 09/04/2020 07:30

@Seaside05 we used it on both our children and no adverse affects. They had loads!

The molludab stings a bit but it was the only thing that worked. Use that when they first appear (before they get to the angry, bursting stage).

We were also prescribed an anti-bacterial cream for the other ones which had already burst or been picked. We covered those ones with plasters to stop onward infection.

It didn’t take that long to resolve (considering we had had them for months!)

There are quite a few long threads on here on molluscum if you do a search. I’m surprised you haven’t had more replies yet.

Borington · 09/04/2020 07:54

The cream was fusidic acid

SweepTheHalls · 09/04/2020 08:00

My daughter has had them for 2 years with them just getting worse. A health visitor recommended using lavender and tea tree oils in her bath. This was 2 weeks ago, daily baths and the improvements have been amazing. Wish someone told me about this 2 years ago!

velocitygirl7 · 09/04/2020 08:05

Sudocrem! Both my dc had them, we tried everything and they just got worse. Sudocrem literally blitzed them in a few days, just kept reapplying it and they quickly disappeared.

stollie · 09/04/2020 08:13

I am in a similar position. Started treating it via freezing in January but haven't been able to go recently because of the coronavirus. I have tried applying bazuka to some of the smaller ones and have ordered an at-home freezing kit from Amazon (Dr Scholll wart and verruca type thing) and I'm going to give it a go freezing them myself.

Fingers crossed!

Mummyneedsginnow · 09/04/2020 08:26

Molludab is very effective with no side effects for us

Theonlyoneiknow · 09/04/2020 09:56

Homeopathy was very effective in my two children. Thuja worked on my son and Carb Calc on my DD

Simonfromharlow · 09/04/2020 09:57

My both my sons had this. Cleared it up pricking the spots and covering them in suadcrem.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 09/04/2020 10:08

With both my children it was a 'brute force' incident that did for them. DD1- had them on her knee, fell over ripping one off. Lots of leeding- rest disappeared in days. DD2, took much longer- hers were under he arm. But again, it was a fall that did it... Think she slid down the stairs. More ripped it open than off, but it started something.

makingmiracles · 09/04/2020 10:17

We started treating dds at the start of lockdown with molludub and using tubigrib on her arms and slathering those in sudocrem as there was lots of inflamed skin on her arms.
So far so good, they all seem to have scabbed over so waiting to see if they heal up ok and wether any new ones appear. If the mullodub doesn’t work I’m trying bazucca next!

stollie · 09/04/2020 10:18

@ReallyLoveChickens how was the bazuka healing process? Did they disappear or scab up and fall off?

justilou1 · 09/04/2020 10:23

I got rid of my DD’s by pricking them and getting the little core out and then drying the blisters with the strongest benzoyl peroxide cream I could buy. (I think it was 10%) They were gone in a week. She had weeping sores under her armpits from them being rubbed, and they were in clusters like tiny bunches of grapes - little bastards!

ReallyLoveChickens · 09/04/2020 12:05

stollie they scabbed and just disappeared. My son was covered in them on the armpit and back area. Then my daughter got it. Nightmare!

BikeRunSki · 09/04/2020 12:09

Agree with @Barbartheeleephant. If you irritate the spots it will alert your immune system to them, and get the antibodies going. Or something like that. There will be a bigger spot - target that one.
I had this as an adult, then -years later- DD as a toddler.

Barbartheeleephant · 09/04/2020 13:58

Yes @BikeRunSki ! We called the biggest one “the mothership” 😂 Take down the mothership and the rest will retreat!

Livingthecovidaloca · 09/04/2020 14:16

DS had loads on knees, inner thighs, and a big old one right on his scrotum last year!
We tried moludab, but found it so tricky to get out of the bottle, then when we did manage he found it incredibly painful.
We found a combination of slathering them with Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream - a recommendation from a really old thread on here, and scratching them helped.
Once he’d loosened what he called the “Queen Pearl” from the largest one, they all went incredibly quickly.

stollie · 15/04/2020 17:08

How are you getting on @Seaside05?

FlaskMaster · 15/04/2020 17:24

My kid has this! We saw the nurse at our GP practice who said it was just like warts and they'd go away on their own, obviously they haven't, they've just spread and multiplied. I've ordered some molludab. We were using bazuca after realising the problem wouldn't resolve itself but we've been applying it for ages and it's only worked on one or two of the smaller ones.

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Seaside05 · 15/04/2020 19:26

hi @stollie how are you finding the at home treatments? The cryotherapy from a doctor is about 100 degrees colder than at home freezing treatments, so I am not trying them as have read they won't work?
Thanks for the suggestions everyone, basically I didn't say that I did receive cryotherapy from a sexual health clinic two months and it absolutely worked on the molluscum spots that I had then, however since then more have appeared in the surrounding area (about 6) so that's what I'm dealing with now. The sexual health clinic is completely closed due to the current pandemic situation, so I phoned and asked my GP and the GP pharmacist if they would prescribe what the doctor from the clinic had also suggested to me as a solution, (a topical treatment used for hpv warts), but the GP and pharmacist refused and refuted any claims that it would be an effective treatment for molluscum.
So back to square one. I received the elizabeth arden 8 hour cream yesterday and have used it twice now, but can't say anything's changed overnight. I am awaiting the molludab stuff (which is just made from 5% potassium hydroxide) to arrive in the post. I have read various papers in dermatology journals on the effectiveness of 5% and 10% potassium hydroxide so i do have some hope for it... other than that I will unfortunately have to wait until the clinic or private dermatologists reopen because I know cryotherapy works very well, and I do not understand why GPs refuse to offer any treatment or support for this upsetting condition. It has really destablised my self esteem and relationship.

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Seaside05 · 17/04/2020 16:09

How long for the Elizabeth Arden cream to work? Thanks

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