[janie2814]

My son is 6 years old and has been diagnosed with molluscum contagiousum. I have taken him to see a demertologist 3 times already and he has perscribed him different types of ointments and nothing has worked. The last cream percribed was aldara cream 5%, I have applied it on him but the papule get irritated, they itch and sometimes bleed. My son is so tired of having them and embarsed of them, What can I apply, don't know what to do? Do you know if Terrasil® cream really work? Please advice

[LisaB4657]

My daughter's doctor didn't bother prescribing anything because he said that nothing will work. He said I could take her to a dermatologist who could freeze them off but they would just keep coming back until the virus ran its course.

What we did (with her pediatrician's blessing) was dab a drop of tea tree oil on them after every bath. I think it helped to shrink them a bit and we found that they didn't get irritated that often.

The virus disappeared after about a year.

[janie2814]

Thank you very much for your advice. I am going to try the tea bag remedy, hopefully it will help the iritation along with the itching.

[LisaB4657]

I used tea tree oil. You can get it at health food stores. Expensive and very strong. I would dip a q-tip in it and dab each one once.

[janie2814]

Have they gone away? My son's are very irritated, and he has them mostly underneath his chin.

[LisaB4657]

Yep. All gone. They were mostly on the inside of one arm and on her side. It lasted about a year.