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[quote=Anonymous]I know someone randomly bumped this up but wanted to share the treatment plan and recommendations from our ped derm. Our DS had "molluscum dermatitis" - a super fun combo of molluscum bumps and eczema flares all over his legs and butt. She lanced each individual lesion to remove the head (yuck) and applied a bandaid. She told us to do the same - as soon as we saw a head, use a sterilized comodone extractor to squeeze it out and put a little dot bandaid on it. Let me tell you how amenable my 4 yo was to that situation. Biggest takeaways were: 
- supplement with zinc (we got the blueberry ez melts) to try to keep the immune system reaction against the virus strong
- after every bath, moisturize with cerave. Any dryness in the skin can contribute to spread
- pop, swab with alcohol, cover. religiously. We went through boxes of the dot band-aids
- she did not recommend the beetle juice treatment for young skin unless the case was really disfiguring and called it a "cosmetic only" treatment, said it does not attack root cause or prevent new lesions from occurring

From the first few lesions we noticed on his upper thigh to full on outbreak to fully clear was a little over a year, and no one else in our house got it.[/quote]

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