Mollescum hell
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Anonymous
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My 7yo has had mollescum for over a year now and it just won’t go away. For the first 9-10 months it was just a cluster of bumps on one leg, but it has now spread to the other leg and one arm.
We have tried so many things - beetle juice at the derm 2x, Imiquidmob, and all the internet recommended treatments from dial and neutrogena soap to Mollenol, Dead Sea salt baths and Differin. Our dermatologist does not want to freeze them off because it will be too traumatic and there are too many now, and just recommends waiting it out at this point. Has anyone just waited it out and they eventually went away? Given that it has already been more than a year I am worried it could be another year or more. |
Anonymous
| Are you covering it or no? |
Anonymous
Yes, I cover them with pimple patches or hydrocolloid bandage tape which is easier at this point because I am do big areas vs 40 pimple patches. |
Anonymous
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You may have tried this but we did some protocol I found with Apple cider vinegar wipes, covering each and every molluscum with a round bandage then each day wiping them then changing the bandage. when they were ready to burst we gently extracted the seed (it just pops out, really) cleaned everything with apple cider vinegar again.
I forget what this approach is called but I’m sure you could find it. Anyway, it had been going on for 8 months and getting worse and was entirely gone in about 4 weeks. |
Anonymous
| All three of my kids had it in sequence and we just waited it out. It took 9-12 months for each kid. Eventually, the immune system figured it out and all the bumps simultaneously got big and red, and then scabbed over and healed. It takes a while but it will always go away on its own. I felt it was a huge waste of time to try to make repeat visits to a specialist to try to treat every single bump while knowing it would go away on its own without treatment. My neighbor took her kids to the dermatologist monthly to treat their molluscum and it took the same amount of time to go away as it did for my untreated kids. |
Anonymous
| My kids' pediatrician said it was completely unnecessary to treat molluscum. It will always go away on its own. It took about a year. |
Anonymous
| My 8 yr old son had a terrible casezas well. Pediatrician said to leave it.,They just wouldnt go away. Dermatologist froze them. It wasnt traumatic and after a bunch of visits they were all gone thankfully. |
Anonymous
How long did you wait before seeing a dermatologist? |
Anonymous
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Under the advice of our dermatologist, used a sterilized needle and lanced each blister that had a “seed” and cleaned as we went along using hydrogen peroxide. Be careful not to let the used needle touch uninflected skin.
By keeping on top of that each day, the blisters didn’t have a chance to spread. If you “wait it out,” they can continue to spread for some time, and are contagious to others. |
Anonymous
At the age my kids got this, there was zero chance they were going to sit still while I went at them with a needle. They caught it from each other, but once the immune reaction kicks in, they can't get it again. |
Anonymous
| My kids all had them and it seems so kispecific. For my boys, they went away fairly quickly with just duct tape on them (our derm said bandaids keep them from spreading but duct tape works better bc it suffocates them). For my daughter, they wouldn’t go away. I was the sucker for every ad that popped up. On Amazon, lemon balm finally worked. We put it on thick and applied a bandaid to each one nightly. After about 3 weeks they scabbed over and fell off |
Anonymous
| Yep my kid had them on his trunk and they probably lasted about a year, I talked to a friend who’s a paediatrician about it and she said what everyone has said above we don’t treat them on children. The treatment is scary and traumatic and they’re not dangerous, they will go away eventually. They did. |
Anonymous
| Flesh-toned micropore tape will be easier to apply to large areas. Leave it on until it falls off and replace. |
Anonymous
| I would take her to a different derm specialist. It may not be mollescum. |
Anonymous
| I think it took about 18 months to go away in our house. |