Who am I?
I am father whose daughter caught this viral infection and became distressed when trying to find a cure. Not only did I find the doctors to be unhelpful but also found a lot of misleading and confusing information on the internet to be overwhelming and some websites even trying to scam money out of you don’t fall for it!
So in this page I will tell of my experience of it which things we tried and how we eventually got rid of it.
How it affected my daughter
Molluscum contagiosum (MC) affects mainly children but can affect any age. It’s a viral infection that is very contagious but most people are resistant to the virus it is passed on through contact or objects towels, toys etc. MC will normally have a lifespan of 12 months to 5 years depending on the immune system.
In my daughter’s case I was unsure what it was to me it just looked like a white head spot on her arm. This, of course, was what I thought and squeezed it myself, when squeezing I noticed it had a waxy core that came out not knowing what it was just thought nothing else of it and left it at that.
This is where the problems started one spot had now turned into three, confused I took my daughter to the doctors and learned what this actually wasMolluscum Contagiosum, he gave the advice of leaving it and telling us it will go in 2 years or less. I couldn’t leave it at that so had to search for remedies and cures to try to take it away as it kept spreading in total it spread to around 10 big and small spots which is not as bad as some cases but still I wanted to get rid of them for fear of bullying as they are not a pretty sight.
The pictures here are of my daughter’s arm a few what was on her arm both are at a later stage of apple cider vinegar treatment the one on the right was the largest and got very angry.
Thanks some good information glad you got rid of it!
thank you for sharing. In my case, i wish the doctor would tell me to treat it when it was just on bump. Now my daughter has like 20 on her back, MC spread fast!!!, i will try immune system boost for her. She is on Imiquimod for 12 weeks. when we went to the doctor, he said” it will go away by it’s own” then they were 10..we went again to see her regular doctor and again he said “it will go away” I couldn’t believe it! then my husband and I decided to see a dermatologist. The only thing i wish is that when it was only ONE bump the doctor would referred us to a dermatologist.
Imiquimod is working really slow, but WHILE one bump disappears 3 little ones appear.
My advice, get them removed when its only ONE OR TWO BUMPS! its hard to keep the kids from scratching them!
saves you time and money! and it does not spread to other little ones.
decent info. hahaha strange to read in some areas, proof reading would make it smoother.
Thanks, I have cleared it up a little there was some bad grammar and spelling mistakes but I am not the best writer unfortunately.
Thanks for writing this. Like many parents I’m combing the Internet searching for help. We tried the Apple Cider a while ago, didnt do much. We did see a dermotoligst he treated the one she had with beetle juice (can’t recall the medical name) and then, one left and six spouted up. I’m so upset. My daughter contracted this from swim team. She’s so upset she quit swim and threw away 3 years of hard training. We are seeing a different dermotoligst tomorrow. I don’t know what to do. It’s on her neck, she’s in 5th grade not the best age to be trying to deal with this. 🙁 In our time, with medicine the way it is, we shouldn’t have to deal with things like this. There should be a straight forward cure. Duct tape? Witchcraft, beetle juice applecider ? UGH !!!!
My son had many molluscum spots, his torso was pretty much covered in them. We received the same advice from the GP to leave them alone and they would go in a couple of years, but we were also told that our son couldn’t go swimming while he was suffering from it. He loved swimming and two years was just too long to be away from it!
In the end, what worked was Thuja homeopathy tablets, I can’t remember where I bought them from, this was 10 years ago. I’m not convinced homeopathy works for everything but it certainly did the trick in this case. I do know of one other child whose molluscum cleared up using Thuja, too.
Hope this helps someone!
thank you…my 5 year old daugter have them on her chin…6 for a 10 months now…3 weeks ago 7 more apeard like over night…it doesnt look nice…her lil sister got them too all over her body and its seems that soaking in a bath with apple cider vinegar dry s them out and hopefully they r going away..
But doesnt help my other daugther and at the moment im trying some molludab(potassium hidroxid) it seems to make them very angry and scars the skin around but the spot are not really changing…we r 3 days on it x2 a day…it doesnt look nice at all either way and i dread letting her going back to shcool tomorrow
So what really works. My granddaughter who is 4 probably has 60 on her. A dermatologist used some chemical which caused blisters. Now we are trying to cure the blister sores. I have read some articles about Lemon Myrtle. It’s a oil and also comes in the form of cram from Australia. Though I cant’ find it locally I am considering ordering it.
This virus is just awful. My daughter had it for 3 years and had probably more than 50 on her inner thighs and then a few on her arms. They got infected and irritated regularly and were just awful. Some got really big too. She got them when she was 8.5years old. We tried very treatment we could find, herbal, tea tree, cider vinegar, fucibet etc etc nothing worked. We just had to wait for them to go . We went to dermatologist and he froze two on her knee hoping it would shock her immune system into recognising them and clearing them. Didn’t work. Was such a stressful time. Now she has been clear for 6 months and my youngest who is 5 has just developed 2….. can’t even explain how upset I am. Can’t go through this again. Just hoping she has less than her sister. Torn between ignoring them and treating them seeing as there are only 2 so far … not sure what to do