Treatment of molluscum contagiosum

Molluscum contagiosum is a name reminiscent of the sea. But in fact, this is a rather unpleasant disease, completely unrelated to the sea and sand. Consider what kind of illness it is and how it can be treated.

A little about the disease

Molluscum contagiosum is a viral infection that spreads through contact with an infected person, or through objects of general and personal use. You can also get infected by bathing in baths, saunas and swimming pools. Adults most often get sexually transmitted infections, and babies - through sandboxes and toys. Appearance of a mollusc - a pearl;Can be as a single manifestation on the skin, but can cover entire areas, acting as a rash. The size of the "pearls" is about 0.5-0.7 mm, often with a depression in the upper part. Sometimes a mollusc can inflame and blush, causing mollusc dermatitis. When squeezing out the papule, the cheesy mass is released from it, which is infected with mollusk bodies, so papules should never be combed, otherwise the infection can be spread all over the skin.

Most often the shellfish "lives" on the face, neck, legs, hands, eyes. In adults, the virus can manifest itself on the genitals, hips and buttocks.

Treatment of mollusc

If the infected person has very strong immunity, then the organism itself will fight the disease in 0,5-1 year. But if with immunity problems, the disease will have to be treated. Treat molluscum in several ways: by laser, nitrogen or scraping. To determine what method of treatment is best to choose, you need to see a dermatovenereologist, who will prescribe the research and tell you how to proceed correctly.

Scraping

If you have a malignant disease or there are only single papules, the doctor will most likely prescribe scraping. With this method of treatment, the patient is removed all the papules with tweezers. Then they are scraped out of the whole cheesy mass, using the so-called Volkmann spoon. All excretions are carefully wiped and removed to prevent contact of the infection with healthy skin. After the procedure, all the wounds obtained are necessarily wiped with a solution of potassium permanganate or an alcohol solution of iodine.

Cauterization with nitrogen or

In the prescription of this method of treatment, all the papules that have appeared are treated with liquid nitrogen( cryodestruction method), freezing "pearls" or they are exposed to high frequency current that destroy the papules' nodules.

Laser treatment

This method is the most painless and fastest of all existing methods. To do this, affected areas of the skin are affected by a focused laser beam. In this case, the area heats up to a temperature of 150 degrees. This temperature allows completely destroying the virus inside the papules, which is very important, since the liquid inside them is the carrier of the virus. The remaining extra cells simply evaporate under the laser. The laser method of treating a mollusc is good because it does not damage nearby healthy parts of the skin and scar and scars remain.

Medical treatment

With all the described methods, additional treatment in the form of medication is possible. This is used in cases where the rash is very much or whether they are inflammatory. Also, the medicinal method is used to prevent re-infection as a result of an operation to remove the molluscum contagiosum. As a medicine, special antibiotics are used, and outside the skin is covered with antifungal ointments that disinfect the areas affected by the disease well. It would be superfluous to take drugs that boost and strengthen the immune system.

Precautions

In order not to develop a molluscum contagiosum, it is necessary to completely stop contact with the infected person until the moment of recovery. It is necessary to conduct disinfecting procedures with things and personal hygiene items of the patient, as well as toys, if the patient is a child.

If precautions are taken, molluscum infection can be minimized, and if a disease occurs, select one of the treatment methods.