Are there any effective at-home remedies for Mollescum Contagium. My 4-year old son has it on half his chest,?

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Sorry to say, not really. This is one of the most common viral infections kids pass around, increasingly so over the past several decades as more and younger kids have gone into daycare with less prepared immune systems. But it isn't really harmful, has no long term side effects and runs its course in 6-9 months. Just wash your hands, make sure he washes his, which is always good practice anyway, as you know. Keep the sheets clean weekly, probably no overnights with non - infected friends.
Check with your doctor to be sure what I am saying is correct, and don't be too upset over it all.

I just did a rapid google check and came up with a lot of sites purporting to have miracle cures for molluscum contagiosum. I would be very careful before investing in or using any such remedy. That is why I won't list any of the sites I came across here b/c I don't want to seem as if I am somehow endorsing them. I will tell you that my son had this also when he was four and I took him to the dermatologist who put freezing drops on each wart and froze them off. I had to bring him in every week for about a month til we got them all and this was over 15 years ago. I am glad that I was using a licensed dermatologist though, you know why?

Because at the very end of his treatment, my son and two year old daughter came down with chicken pox which initially looked exactly like the molluscum to me and if I had been treating them MYSELF, being a DR. MOM, I would have put something for warts on a chicken pock and maybe really scarred them for life. Of course the real doctor recognized immediately what was wrong.

Go see a skin doctor. That would be best.

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No, there aren't. He must be seen by a physician, as he has a viral skin infection that may take anywhere from several months to several years to rid him of. It is also very contagious, so great care must be taken not to spread the infection to yourself and others.

Perhaps the links below, including pediatric-specific links, will give you some guidance:

http://www.molluscum.com/?gclid=CKOhwc-M04UCFRdiDgodDTw72A

http://www.kidsfirstpediatrics.com/mulluscom_contagiosum2.htm

http://www.babycenter.com/comments/toddler/toddlerills/todrash/11195?i=40

http://www.drkoop.com/ency/93/000826.html

http://www.webmd.com/hw/skin_and_beauty/aa18193.asp

Beware, the images below are quite graphic:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=molluscum+contagiosum&sp=1&fr2=sp-top&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-img-t&ei=UTF-8&SpellState=n-435852755_q-rcU1gCiIGP3w/cTK7JF8uAABAA@@

I hope you both have some relief soon!
Source(s):
http://www.molluscum.com/
http://www.kidsfirstpediatrics.com/
http://www.babycenter.com/
http://www.drkoop.com/
http://www.webmd.com/

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