Molluscum

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DD2 had molluscum for 8 months. We left it for a few months as dr suggested but it spread all over her body and was horrible so I went on the net and found Molluscum No More and after a couple of months her skin was beautiful and clear. Now DD1 and DD3 has it so we've left it because the Molluscum No More does nothing at all for dd3 and dd1's skin gets irritated by it pretty badly. Did try Zymaderm for a little while but that has to be from America. Anyone got any suggestions about things from this country that's easier to obtain?? It's really unsightly and seems to keep spreading rather than getting better. Dr says it can take up to a year but I've read sometime people can suffer up to 4 years.

my dd has had it for a while and we tried zymaderm (didnt work and ended up irritating her skin) and colloidal silver (also didnt make much difference). I have now decided to let it run its course. I got zymaderm from a uk supplier btw.

If you want a really extreme way of getting rid of them then send your lo for a squint correction op - dd went for one on Tuesday and the surgeon removed a couple of molluscum from her face and the big unsightly ones from the crook of her arm too!! Hows that for value for money!! I should have asked them to take away the ones on her back and tummy while they were there.

I got the zymaderm from here

Thanks for the info - I shall check out the site and see if the Zymaderm can help them. Squint correction op!!! How did he manage to remove them?? DD3 has a big one and 3 little ones on her face and I hate them.

He must have just chopped them off with a scalpel - she had about 6 big ones in the crook of her arm and they were starting to get caught and bleed a bit and she looks so much better now they have gone although there was quite a bit of bleeding from them when she woke up. She does have a couple of tiny ones left on her arm though so they will probably get bigger too.

OK I don't know if this is actually what you are meant to do, but --- my ds was plagued by these all over his chest, back - he had one really large one at the top of his back, and someone told me that if you pinch the biggest one out, the rest die off quicker. I did it - it worked, and the rest went within about 2 weeks. Not a nice job though - I made sure I had superclean hands and lots of sterile wipes with me as it bled a lot - the white bit was hard like a large grain of sand. Pretty gross.

Was that painfil? They look so hard and shiny.

Sorry painful not painfil!!!

The trick is to pinch fingers underneath the white bit and it comes away easily, definitely not to squeeze. I had one or two myself and I did this to them, it wasn't so much painful as awkward, and I must admit it bled a lot more than I expected. I think the reason people are told to leave them alone is that they scar if they are removed - they leave a little crater-like scar so maybe not best for the face - but after 2 years of being told they will go on their own, I had had enough! (especially when I caught a couple from him).

I have squeezed a couple of dd's when they have got to the sort of whitehead stage or have started to go a bit greeny - she will now not let me near them to squeezing is no longer an option. It must bloody hurt!!