Mollescum hell

[Anonymous]

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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.

So gross. Anyone who has dirty children is not qualified to comment.

[Anonymous]

Some idiotic advice here. Duct tape every night? These rituals are ridiculous and will drastically increase scarring risk.

they can take up to 18 months to resolve. They will resolve. You impatient meddling moro parents need to duct tape your own hands together and your mouths while you are at it.

[Anonymous]

School and daycare only perpetuate the problem. It will eventually pass i promise

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

derm did this for us, squeezed it out with a scalpel, left no scars, this is better than freezing which can scare them

[Anonymous]

Oral zinc supplementation (zinc melts) was recommended by our derm. If your kid has eczema they are more susceptible. My son had it SO terribly, it was practically disfiguring. It took about 8 months to clear fully but once he started taking zinc it cleared up significantly. We did just about every other topical treatment mentioned here including regular visits to the derm for lancing.

[Anonymous]

My teen swimmer had it last year. It was all over her legs and eventually spread to her hands and arm. We tried all the at home treatments (apple cider vinegar, salicylic acid, patches, and colloidal silver) and none of them worked. Pediatrician prescribed the antacid medication (can't remember the name) which worked with my son years ago but had not effect on my daughter. Ultimately, the beetle juice at the dermatologist did the trick, thankfully after one application. We would have continued to treat it aggressively. Other kids noticed it and were starting to make fun of her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some idiotic advice here. Duct tape every night? These rituals are ridiculous and will drastically increase scarring risk.

they can take up to 18 months to resolve. They will resolve. You impatient meddling moro parents need to duct tape your own hands together and your mouths while you are at it.

+100
You can't fix the stupid that's on this thread. Nor the horrible parents who poke at their children.

[Anonymous]

We just squeezed ours out.

[Anonymous]

My kid didn’t have the luxury of waiting it out. She has eczema, so the molloscum was spreading like crazy. Over several visits the dermatologist popped and drained them, we followed her advice at home, and it soon resolved. It probably would have been bad for DD’s immune system to continue to fight off an expanding infection for so long by just waiting it out.

[Anonymous]

The dermatologist should scoop out all of them, including the cores and bandage, thats the only way to get rid of it and prevent spread.

[Anonymous]

This not normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would take her to a different derm specialist. It may not be mollescum.

From OP’s description it really sounds like mollusks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some idiotic advice here. Duct tape every night? These rituals are ridiculous and will drastically increase scarring risk.

they can take up to 18 months to resolve. They will resolve. You impatient meddling moro parents need to duct tape your own hands together and your mouths while you are at it.

+100
You can't fix the stupid that's on this thread. Nor the horrible parents who poke at their children.

My daughter somehow caught Molluscum at the beginning of Covid (as a 4yo) and it took over 18 months to resolve. We took a dermatologist’s advice to let it be (do nothing), but it really upset my daughter. I actually think her case was quite mild… mostly around her thighs. No sign of it years later.