Diagnosis And Treatment Of Molluscum Contagiosum

Molluscum contagiosum can often be diagnosed by taking a look at your skin. It is very easy to mistake it for another skin condition. Similar looks to wart-like bumps, chickenpox and even skin cancer in severe cases. If this happens, your dermatologist will scrape off a bit of infected skin so that it can be examined under a microscope.

How is it diagnosed by dermatologist London?

Most often, our dermatologist Harley Street London will diagnose molluscum contagiosum as soon as they look at your skin. Sometimes, molluscum contagiosum looks like some other skin conditions. The bumps may look like chickenpox, warts, and even skin cancer. If this is the case, the infected skin will be scratched off a little bit by your dermatologist so that he can examine it under a microscope.

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How is molluscum contagiosum treated by dermatologists?

Anytime the infection is gotten by a child; researchers discovered that their skin mostly cleared on its own. It takes like twelve or eighteen months for it to clear. In most cases, dermatologists can’t treat infected children because unwanted side effects can spring up for infected children.

Even though molluscum contagiosum can clear on its own, there are benefits of treating it. Treatment helps in preventing the virus, which causes molluscum contagiosum from:

• Infecting other individuals
• Spreading to uninfected parts of your body
• Developing out of control in individuals whose immune system is weak.

For every patient, the basis of treatment is considered by the dermatologist. If there is a recommended treatment, the treatment plan for you will likely include one or more of these:

Procedures: This can be performed by our dermatologist when you visit our dermatology clinic London.

Cryosurgery: The bump is frozen by making use of liquid nitrogen by the dermatologist.

Curettage: A small equipment is used by the dermatologist to scrape the bumps off the skin. This equipment is called the Curette.

Laser surgery: A laser is used by the dermatologist to target and get rid of the bumps. This treatment can be effective for individuals whose immune system are weak.

Topical therapy: Your dermatologist can apply various blistering solutions and acids to get rid of the bumps. These substances work by destroying the skin’s top layers. Trichloroacetic acid is mostly used in treating individuals whose immune system is weak, and have a lot of bumps.

When an infected person has larger bumps or many bumps, a procedure will need to be repeated by a dermatologist every three to six weeks until the disappearing of the bumps. Some form of discomfort can be caused by this procedure.

Medications applied by you at home: An antiviral medicine or retinoids can be prescribed to you by your dermatologist. This medication will be used on your bumps as instructed by your dermatologist.

When molluscum is being treated, it is natural for new bumps to come up as others fade.

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Outcome

If an individual who has a healthy immune system chooses not to treat this infection, the bumps will go off on their own without any scar left. Till the bumps disappear, the individual is contagious.

If you opt to treat this infection, new bumps may come up for about six months from the moment you begin treatment. Several individuals, nevertheless, have a total clearing in two to four months. It is necessary to know that until the bumps are cleared, the infection can still be transferred to uninfected individuals.

If an individual has AIDS or some other disease which makes the immune system weak, the bumps won’t leave without treatment — and it can be challenging to treat the bumps. Treatments are often combined by the dermatologist to offer to these types of patients. It may not be possible to do a total removal.