Comments on: She ain’t shellfish, she’s my daughter

By: Lori (apparently one of several)

Lori (apparently one of several) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:47:54 +0000

just wanted to add that duct tape comes in several shiny, pretty colors…

By: Melinda

Melinda — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:16:40 +0000

No great advice, except this tidbit for any googlers out there: My friend’s kids had these, but she referred to them as “water warts”. I guess that’s a “common name” in some parts. And her kids gave them to each other. (Three out of five.)

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:52:11 +0000

OK this will sound loopy and crazy and ridiculous but here goes. We tried everything for my son who had the SAME THING. The operative word was EVERYTHING. Painful, horrible, smelly, disgusting treatments for the warts. Know what worked? DUCT TAPE. I kid you not. Stick it on (in whatever color she would prefer it doesn’t matter) and leave it on until it falls off on it’s own. Then wash/scrub the warts with a pumice stone, let dry and re-apply a new set of duct tape. Keep doing it until they are gone. It works. I promise. It has been written up in medical journals, seriously. The kind, saintly nurse at our clinic took me aside and got me the “in” to avoiding painful and expensive treatments. I owe her everything. Good luck!

By: Nancy R

Nancy R — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:01:28 +0000

My 7yo has a few of these – originally misdiagnosed as a staph infection.

We’ve been using the Zyma-Derm, and it gets rid of anything that looks like it might be a new bump appearing, but it’s done nothing for the original three she had at diagnosis.

I’m trying to hold myself back from popping the one, but after reading the comments I’m thinking I’ll go pin my daughter to the floor and have at it!

We are keeping them covered with Nexcare Waterproof clear bandages – once on, they stick great and are difficult to remove, but you have to be careful because they’re more wiley than a piece of saran wrap. The bandaids began irritating her skin though, so now we only do bandaids during the day, and she wears long pj bottoms with a tight ankle cuff for bed. I’ve resurrected the Lansinoh for the irritation left by the bandaids.

Originally, we were only using the Zymaderm once a day, and then we were doing Zymaderm in the morning and Tea Tree oil at bedtime. Just this week we stepped it up to Zymaderm twice a day.

We’ve been dealing with it since early April. While I’m glad she’s not getting any new spots, I’m looking forward to them all going away!

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:21:47 +0000

See, now Dr Jen was going to say it was MC! My daughter, then 3, saw a new pediatrician when we moved house, and she was a tad grumpy that day and he said “ooh you’d better be in a better mood next time”, and sent her off to the dermatologist to have her Molloscums removed. They got scraped off her back one by one…. and the next day it became evident she actually had chicken pox!! Can you BELIEVE it? They’d been scraping off pustules not little fatty warts. I never went back to the guy. Hope Chicky feels better soon. (oh, by the way, DD did have the odd MC, but they went away by themselves, luckily).

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:18:46 +0000

I see a few people have already recommended duct tape and I need to wholeheartedly agree! Doctors are actually now recommending using duct tape over freezing (at least here in Canada) because Hello? It’s painless! And it really works!!! We’ve tried it several times and it always works. It’s just a matter of patience and consistency. I’m actually really kind of weirdly passionate about telling people about the duct tape cure because no one seems to know about it. It can take several weeks or even longer than a month and you just have to consistently replace it every time it starts to come off. Now, if your daughter has the warts on her elbow she may not be thrilled to wear a honking piece of gray tape on there, but if she is willing, it works!

Feeling a little amazed that I just wrote that much about duct tape? I wrote a whole blog post about it this week! :)

By: Heather Cook

Heather Cook — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:46:52 +0000

I had this as a kid… and no one else got it in the house. So I bet that you’ll remain un… um, warted.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:04:03 +0000

BAH. Thanks a bunch, Mir. I just sent my kid off to camp for a week with one of these, healing from a freeze-away application last week! CRAP!!!

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By: SoMo

SoMo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:20:54 +0000

I am so sorry for her. I mean the warts and all are bad, but no swimming that has to be the worse. I hope no one else catching it and that she feels better soon.

I say a pony and all the candy she can eat is in order for this summer. Poor baby.