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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you recommend a dermatologist in MoCo who is likely to treat it?

I don’t want to take my kid to a derm who will just tell me to leave it alone. And I’m definitely not interested in waiting months or years for it to resolve on its own.

Ugh. [/quote]

Whether or not you find a dermatologist to freeze them or apply beetle juice to them, it will take months or years for it (the viral
Process causing it) to resolve.

After the removal (which can be painful for most kids), those specific spots are gone, but much of the time more just crop up in other places since the virus is still in the body.

A Hopkins Peds derm once told me that she tells parents it’s her job, as a dermatologist, to persuade them to just leave the bumps alone since that will give the lowest risk of any scarring (as opposed to treating them) and that it’s a completely harmless viral rash. She says that many parents refuse to be persuaded, so she will remove them. And some of those kids end up with scarring.[/quote]

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