wrxsmo

My 3 year old daughter has 'Molluscum Contagiosum' which I understand is not that uncommon. We saw our GP 12 months ago & he said not to worry & that it will clear up in time.

A year later & it's getting worse (the doctor did say it will get worse before it gets better) and wondered if anyone had any experience of ZymaDerm ?
Having looked at comparisons it certainly looks to be a positive treatment. Any thoughts ?

Thanks in advance

Chris

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john banks

It will go away eventually if it is molluscum contagiosum.

Textbook of Paediatrics, Forfar and Arneil:
"The disease is benign and self-limiting. Treatment is advised only to prevent spread by autoinoculation or to others. Treatment is simple and consists of the removal of the lesions with a sharp curette. Other methods include electro- or cryocautery. The lesions will usually heal without scarring and recurrence is rare."

It used to be recommended to stab them with a phenol stick but that was said to leave scars, which is a bit daft for something that will go away itself. Some people squeeze them.

I've not come across Zymaderm before. It doesn't look like it would be harmful, and the trial data although small doesn't look too bad, although a more detailed report would establish this better. Oddly one of the pages linked summarises treatment and says it isn't effective in the table though!

Additionally, Zymaderm does not come up with any results on Medline for peer reviewed papers. From their own admission they are not going the high budget route and selling it as a proper pharmaceutical with all the controls that would entail. A shame, I'm sure a drug company would be interested in a drug with such good results if they could be backed up with larger, independent, double blinded, placebo controlled trials. You can't tell if the trial mentioned is blinded or not, or how patients were randomised, what the baseline characteristics were, or if the olive oil and treatment had the same physical consistency so patients and parents know what they are on.

If there is no evidence for toxicity it might be worth a go if widespread, but it is far from a proven treatment when considered by stringent measures.

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I had this in my mid twenties, just on my stomach. My doc told me it would go away and it did.....left no marks at all.


CC

wrxsmo

Thanks very much John, think I'll leave be for now then.

And good to hear CC thanks.