Mollescum hell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
There are multiple other treatments you can try. Cimetidine (Tagamet) hasn't been mentioned yet, and it's just an oral antacid/antihistamine that doesn't increase the risk of scarring. There is good research on it.

American Academy of Dermatology:
https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/a-z/molluscum-contagiosum-treatment

Also:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8844752/
https://projectlead.dermsquared.com/clinical-corner/is-there-data-on-oral-cimetidine-for-widespread-molluscum-lesions/

Tagamet cleared my kid in 10 days (she had had it for a year and probably had 100 spots when we started the treatment).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Assuming it is mollescum (and I agree you should confirm with different derm), I don’t understand the passive approach. You can make the experience much shorter.

For the first kid that got it, we followed the advice to just leave it alone and it lasted over a year. For the second, I had enough and did the below. It was fully gone in six weeks. After that we did the below and it was always gone in 6-8 weeks.

Cover every night in duct tape.
The ones that start to turn color are ready to be extracted.
Get in hot shower with kids and have them stand under shower for awhile (softens skin).
In the shower, gently squeeze and remove seed with needle-nose tweezer. The hot water will help eliminate spread.
Out of shower, cover extraction locations immediately with lotion and band aid. Wash your own hands with hot water and soap frequently.
Make sure you take the bathing suits and towels and wash them in hot water after the shower. Avoid touching wet towel & bathing suits.
Repeat every few days.

This is the grossest thing I've ever read on this website.

You're not supposed to pop them or do anything like that unless you want scarring. This is bad advice.

PP here. You can let your kids stew in a gross virus for years if you want. I also make my kids shower and soap themselves every day, which apparently a lot of parents here don’t.

My kids had no scarring whatsoever. And it was gone within weeks because I took it seriously and didn’t let it fester.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It tends to flare up for a few weeks/ month before it fades. It’s harmless and always goes away on its own. I never understood the panic surrounding molluscum from some parents on here. Like, literally who cares if your kid has unsightly bumps for a year and a half. Almost every kid gets it at some point (some super mild of course). It’s fine. Unclench. Your child will be ready to be a J Crew model again in another month or two.

Not harmless. By “leaving it alone,” my first give gave it to my second kid and their cousin. We did the needle technique and it cleared it up in a few weeks. No scarring

It really is harmless, regardless of how it spreads. I couldn't imagine making my kid sit in the shower every night while I picked at him with a needle. Gross and scary.

We get that soap probably scared your kid, but that isn’t true for all of us, thankfully.

[Anonymous]

For my son, it did take a while. But he has severe eczema, and we found the best treatment was building a healthy skin barrier by keeping his skin moisturized and the eczema flares minimized. Then his body was healthy enough to fight off. He did wear long sleeves and pants to school to prevent it from spreading, and we were careful with towels and such.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weirdly, Boudreaux’s Butt Paste was what worked for my kid

It probably wasn't molluscum if diaper cream cleared it up. Perhaps it was a heat rash or insect bites.

Or it was about to clear up.onnits own. I feel like when there are lots of varied miracle cures, most were just coincidence. Our oed said that about eczema. Most kids grow out of it and the last thing tried became the miracle cure

[Anonymous]

My kid had this, we eventually had the derm freeze them off. It really was not as bad as we thought it would be. Wish we'd done it sooner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It tends to flare up for a few weeks/ month before it fades. It’s harmless and always goes away on its own. I never understood the panic surrounding molluscum from some parents on here. Like, literally who cares if your kid has unsightly bumps for a year and a half. Almost every kid gets it at some point (some super mild of course). It’s fine. Unclench. Your child will be ready to be a J Crew model again in another month or two.

Not harmless. By “leaving it alone,” my first give gave it to my second kid and their cousin. We did the needle technique and it cleared it up in a few weeks. No scarring

It really is harmless, regardless of how it spreads. I couldn't imagine making my kid sit in the shower every night while I picked at him with a needle. Gross and scary.

Your kid must not have had it somewhere incredibly noticeable? My dd has them around one knee, so nbd, and we are treating them, but 2 of her close friends got them terribly on their faces and necks. At first they thought it was sudden acne but nope, molluscum. I’d be hard pressed to find a tween girl who would just let that run its course

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Assuming it is mollescum (and I agree you should confirm with different derm), I don’t understand the passive approach. You can make the experience much shorter.

For the first kid that got it, we followed the advice to just leave it alone and it lasted over a year. For the second, I had enough and did the below. It was fully gone in six weeks. After that we did the below and it was always gone in 6-8 weeks.

Cover every night in duct tape.
The ones that start to turn color are ready to be extracted.
Get in hot shower with kids and have them stand under shower for awhile (softens skin).
In the shower, gently squeeze and remove seed with needle-nose tweezer. The hot water will help eliminate spread.
Out of shower, cover extraction locations immediately with lotion and band aid. Wash your own hands with hot water and soap frequently.
Make sure you take the bathing suits and towels and wash them in hot water after the shower. Avoid touching wet towel & bathing suits.
Repeat every few days.

This is the grossest thing I've ever read on this website.

You're not supposed to pop them or do anything like that unless you want scarring. This is bad advice.

PP here. You can let your kids stew in a gross virus for years if you want. I also make my kids shower and soap themselves every day, which apparently a lot of parents here don’t.

My kids had no scarring whatsoever. And it was gone within weeks because I took it seriously and didn’t let it fester.

I don't have kids so no one is stewing in a virus except your kids.

YOU are a terrible parent for poking and squeezing at their broken out skin because YOU are embarrassed they caught a communicable disease and YOU think they're so gross and unsightly enough to harm your children so YOU don't have to be embarrassed by it.

What's wrong with YOU?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Assuming it is mollescum (and I agree you should confirm with different derm), I don’t understand the passive approach. You can make the experience much shorter.

For the first kid that got it, we followed the advice to just leave it alone and it lasted over a year. For the second, I had enough and did the below. It was fully gone in six weeks. After that we did the below and it was always gone in 6-8 weeks.

Cover every night in duct tape.
The ones that start to turn color are ready to be extracted.
Get in hot shower with kids and have them stand under shower for awhile (softens skin).
In the shower, gently squeeze and remove seed with needle-nose tweezer. The hot water will help eliminate spread.
Out of shower, cover extraction locations immediately with lotion and band aid. Wash your own hands with hot water and soap frequently.
Make sure you take the bathing suits and towels and wash them in hot water after the shower. Avoid touching wet towel & bathing suits.
Repeat every few days.

This is the grossest thing I've ever read on this website.

You're not supposed to pop them or do anything like that unless you want scarring. This is bad advice.

Right?? And what does she mean by”every time”? You only get it once. Sure if she physically removed each and every bump, but the virus isn’t gone from the body yet, the kid might appear to get it multiple times but it’s all the same initial infection. Parents, only do this if you want an astonishingly higher risk of scarring

They're psycho to do this and risk scarring on a virus that clears up on its own. Those kids are going to remember their mother poking them with needles over and over again. So traumatic and selfish of the mother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Assuming it is mollescum (and I agree you should confirm with different derm), I don’t understand the passive approach. You can make the experience much shorter.

For the first kid that got it, we followed the advice to just leave it alone and it lasted over a year. For the second, I had enough and did the below. It was fully gone in six weeks. After that we did the below and it was always gone in 6-8 weeks.

Cover every night in duct tape.
The ones that start to turn color are ready to be extracted.
Get in hot shower with kids and have them stand under shower for awhile (softens skin).
In the shower, gently squeeze and remove seed with needle-nose tweezer. The hot water will help eliminate spread.
Out of shower, cover extraction locations immediately with lotion and band aid. Wash your own hands with hot water and soap frequently.
Make sure you take the bathing suits and towels and wash them in hot water after the shower. Avoid touching wet towel & bathing suits.
Repeat every few days.

This is the grossest thing I've ever read on this website.

You're not supposed to pop them or do anything like that unless you want scarring. This is bad advice.

PP here. You can let your kids stew in a gross virus for years if you want. I also make my kids shower and soap themselves every day, which apparently a lot of parents here don’t.

My kids had no scarring whatsoever. And it was gone within weeks because I took it seriously and didn’t let it fester.

My kids never got it ever, and they did not shower daily.

Shame on you for being a jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Assuming it is mollescum (and I agree you should confirm with different derm), I don’t understand the passive approach. You can make the experience much shorter.

For the first kid that got it, we followed the advice to just leave it alone and it lasted over a year. For the second, I had enough and did the below. It was fully gone in six weeks. After that we did the below and it was always gone in 6-8 weeks.

Cover every night in duct tape.
The ones that start to turn color are ready to be extracted.
Get in hot shower with kids and have them stand under shower for awhile (softens skin).
In the shower, gently squeeze and remove seed with needle-nose tweezer. The hot water will help eliminate spread.
Out of shower, cover extraction locations immediately with lotion and band aid. Wash your own hands with hot water and soap frequently.
Make sure you take the bathing suits and towels and wash them in hot water after the shower. Avoid touching wet towel & bathing suits.
Repeat every few days.

This is the grossest thing I've ever read on this website.

You're not supposed to pop them or do anything like that unless you want scarring. This is bad advice.

Right?? And what does she mean by”every time”? You only get it once. Sure if she physically removed each and every bump, but the virus isn’t gone from the body yet, the kid might appear to get it multiple times but it’s all the same initial infection. Parents, only do this if you want an astonishingly higher risk of scarring

They're psycho to do this and risk scarring on a virus that clears up on its own. Those kids are going to remember their mother poking them with needles over and over again. So traumatic and selfish of the mother.

I’m not the PP from above but one of the ones that cleared it with a needle. Folks, it’s a raised blister and you’re lancing the raised part. My kids didn’t complain about it hurting. What they did complain about is the gross molloscum they wanted to get rid of and stop spreading. The technique was used by our dermatologist and we replicated it at home, and it worked. Kids were happy it worked, not traumatized and no scarring lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Assuming it is mollescum (and I agree you should confirm with different derm), I don’t understand the passive approach. You can make the experience much shorter.

For the first kid that got it, we followed the advice to just leave it alone and it lasted over a year. For the second, I had enough and did the below. It was fully gone in six weeks. After that we did the below and it was always gone in 6-8 weeks.

Cover every night in duct tape.
The ones that start to turn color are ready to be extracted.
Get in hot shower with kids and have them stand under shower for awhile (softens skin).
In the shower, gently squeeze and remove seed with needle-nose tweezer. The hot water will help eliminate spread.
Out of shower, cover extraction locations immediately with lotion and band aid. Wash your own hands with hot water and soap frequently.
Make sure you take the bathing suits and towels and wash them in hot water after the shower. Avoid touching wet towel & bathing suits.
Repeat every few days.

This is the grossest thing I've ever read on this website.

You're not supposed to pop them or do anything like that unless you want scarring. This is bad advice.

PP here. You can let your kids stew in a gross virus for years if you want. I also make my kids shower and soap themselves every day, which apparently a lot of parents here don’t.

My kids had no scarring whatsoever. And it was gone within weeks because I took it seriously and didn’t let it fester.

My kids never got it ever, and they did not shower daily.

Shame on you for being a jerk.

My kids got it from swim team practice sharing a kick board with other students. Apparently others on the swim got it too. And yes, they shower after each practice, but we started doing a more thorough scrub down of all extremities after that experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Assuming it is mollescum (and I agree you should confirm with different derm), I don’t understand the passive approach. You can make the experience much shorter.

For the first kid that got it, we followed the advice to just leave it alone and it lasted over a year. For the second, I had enough and did the below. It was fully gone in six weeks. After that we did the below and it was always gone in 6-8 weeks.

Cover every night in duct tape.
The ones that start to turn color are ready to be extracted.
Get in hot shower with kids and have them stand under shower for awhile (softens skin).
In the shower, gently squeeze and remove seed with needle-nose tweezer. The hot water will help eliminate spread.
Out of shower, cover extraction locations immediately with lotion and band aid. Wash your own hands with hot water and soap frequently.
Make sure you take the bathing suits and towels and wash them in hot water after the shower. Avoid touching wet towel & bathing suits.
Repeat every few days.

This is the grossest thing I've ever read on this website.

You're not supposed to pop them or do anything like that unless you want scarring. This is bad advice.

PP here. You can let your kids stew in a gross virus for years if you want. I also make my kids shower and soap themselves every day, which apparently a lot of parents here don’t.

My kids had no scarring whatsoever. And it was gone within weeks because I took it seriously and didn’t let it fester.

I don't have kids so no one is stewing in a virus except your kids.

YOU are a terrible parent for poking and squeezing at their broken out skin because YOU are embarrassed they caught a communicable disease and YOU think they're so gross and unsightly enough to harm your children so YOU don't have to be embarrassed by it.

What's wrong with YOU?

Well, now the ignorance makes sense. Creepy that you are reading and commenting on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Assuming it is mollescum (and I agree you should confirm with different derm), I don’t understand the passive approach. You can make the experience much shorter.

For the first kid that got it, we followed the advice to just leave it alone and it lasted over a year. For the second, I had enough and did the below. It was fully gone in six weeks. After that we did the below and it was always gone in 6-8 weeks.

Cover every night in duct tape.
The ones that start to turn color are ready to be extracted.
Get in hot shower with kids and have them stand under shower for awhile (softens skin).
In the shower, gently squeeze and remove seed with needle-nose tweezer. The hot water will help eliminate spread.
Out of shower, cover extraction locations immediately with lotion and band aid. Wash your own hands with hot water and soap frequently.
Make sure you take the bathing suits and towels and wash them in hot water after the shower. Avoid touching wet towel & bathing suits.
Repeat every few days.

This is the grossest thing I've ever read on this website.

You're not supposed to pop them or do anything like that unless you want scarring. This is bad advice.

PP here. You can let your kids stew in a gross virus for years if you want. I also make my kids shower and soap themselves every day, which apparently a lot of parents here don’t.

My kids had no scarring whatsoever. And it was gone within weeks because I took it seriously and didn’t let it fester.

I don't have kids so no one is stewing in a virus except your kids.

YOU are a terrible parent for poking and squeezing at their broken out skin because YOU are embarrassed they caught a communicable disease and YOU think they're so gross and unsightly enough to harm your children so YOU don't have to be embarrassed by it.

What's wrong with YOU?

Well, now the ignorance makes sense. Creepy that you are reading and commenting on this.

+1. The earlier PP’s post is odd on several levels. That PP acknowledges that this is a communicable disease. Why would anyone, kid or adult, walk around for months potentially infecting others. We nipped it in the bud, to stop the spread on the kids but also to stop the spread to others. You’re welcome, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Assuming it is mollescum (and I agree you should confirm with different derm), I don’t understand the passive approach. You can make the experience much shorter.

For the first kid that got it, we followed the advice to just leave it alone and it lasted over a year. For the second, I had enough and did the below. It was fully gone in six weeks. After that we did the below and it was always gone in 6-8 weeks.

Cover every night in duct tape.
The ones that start to turn color are ready to be extracted.
Get in hot shower with kids and have them stand under shower for awhile (softens skin).
In the shower, gently squeeze and remove seed with needle-nose tweezer. The hot water will help eliminate spread.
Out of shower, cover extraction locations immediately with lotion and band aid. Wash your own hands with hot water and soap frequently.
Make sure you take the bathing suits and towels and wash them in hot water after the shower. Avoid touching wet towel & bathing suits.
Repeat every few days.

This is the grossest thing I've ever read on this website.

You're not supposed to pop them or do anything like that unless you want scarring. This is bad advice.

PP here. You can let your kids stew in a gross virus for years if you want. I also make my kids shower and soap themselves every day, which apparently a lot of parents here don’t.

My kids had no scarring whatsoever. And it was gone within weeks because I took it seriously and didn’t let it fester.

I don't have kids so no one is stewing in a virus except your kids.

YOU are a terrible parent for poking and squeezing at their broken out skin because YOU are embarrassed they caught a communicable disease and YOU think they're so gross and unsightly enough to harm your children so YOU don't have to be embarrassed by it.

What's wrong with YOU?

Well, now the ignorance makes sense. Creepy that you are reading and commenting on this.

+1. The earlier PP’s post is odd on several levels. That PP acknowledges that this is a communicable disease. Why would anyone, kid or adult, walk around for months potentially infecting others. We nipped it in the bud, to stop the spread on the kids but also to stop the spread to others. You’re welcome, PP.

Yes, that poster is clearly very weird and creepy. Of course the normal and healthy approach is to try to stop the contagion and to not let viruses fester on children.