Let me start by saying, this is scary! My daughter was 5 years old at the time when I noticed one small bump under her armpit. It became more and more small tiny bumps that led into bigger bumps, from the size of a pencil tip to a pencil eraser.
I of course made my daughter a doctor’s appointment right away because I was so nervous for her. Not only were they spreading like wildfire down her side and down her arm but it was itching and irritating her.
Mind you, when you itch something like that, the fungus gets under your nails and spreads the more places you touch or itch. So I knew I had to do something.
I had no idea before going to the doctor’s office that day what in the world this could be, until the Doctor told us it was Molluscum Contagiosum.
I thought I would at least be leaving with more answers or a solution, instead she told us that there was no cure and there was ultimately nothing she could do. No antibiotic, no cream, no removers, no nothing.
She said it will go away on its own but that it could take up to two years!
Of course I asked her how my daughter could have gotten this and she said that it is spread amongst others, like anything else and that she must have touched something or someone that had this fungal on them.
She was in a public elementary school at the time so it didn’t surprise me that this is most likely where she got this from. I mean, we don’t go many places, my kids are always with me or at school and we are very clean people.
I left there feeling discouraged because I did not want this to get worse and to continue irritating her. We knew we had to not share towels, wash clothes, etc. and I did not want other kids or people noticing it on her and wondering what on earth it was. This is not something I had ever heard of and I assume many others haven’t also.
First thing I went to was Amazon. I spent about $40 on Dr. Wheatgrass’s Skin Recovery because it had good reviews for treating Molluscum but after a month of putting it on her regularly, it did not work.
Thankfully the only good thing we had going for us was that it was not spreading to her legs, front of her stomach, her face, or anywhere else on her body. It was only in her armpit area going down to her side and down the inside of her upper arm.
I then decided to try another product off of Amazon, which was Zymaderm. This is a holy grail. This stuff is the answer. Thankfully, I had found it and it worked within days. It reminded me of the liquid wart remover, it came in the same type of small glass bottle with a twist off lid. It came with a small brush attached to the lid to apply it.
I put a small amount on each and every bump, whether it was very small or very big, and let it dry well with no shirt on or anything else that may rub it. I had her keep her arm up on the couch and we had let it dry for about 10 minutes or so. I would have her continue not wearing her shirt around the house for a couple hours to let it work itself into the bumps without any clothing slowly rubbing it off.
I did this every single day in the morning and at night and within a couple days, I saw them getting smaller or drying up. Some may get faintly red which is perfectly ok. It would be like a scab when a scab dries up and hardens and then just falls off eventually.
That is actually what these Molluscum bumps did. The little ones would dry up and get a tiny scab (showing that it “died”) and would fall off in no time. The bigger ones took a little bit more time to dry up and scab to fall off, just keep applying the Zymaderm regularly and eventually they will die off. Do not pick any off! Let them fall off!
This bottle should last you the entire treatment so do not worry about getting two. It is well worth the money! It has never returned but if I come across this again then I will know right away what to do next time!
This is fungal so it is going to take time to kill them off. It will happen with the right product and I cannot express enough how grateful I was to come across this. I had to do a lot of research on Amazon to find it and I had wished that I would have found it sooner. I did end up showing my daughter’s Doctor and I hope that she is now recommending it to any patient she has that encounters the same issue.
I remember being so embarrassed because they are pretty gross and it makes you feel so unclean. I remember not reading anyone’s personal stories with Molluscum besides in Amazon Reviews and if I can help one mom out there, cure their baby’s Molluscum quicker than I would be thrilled. So I hope this can help somebody!
P.S. I am by no means a Doctor giving medical advice. This is just some helpful tips from one mother to another!
Til next time, from me to you.
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