Dirty little secret: Warts on kids are common and we need to deal
by Tara Shafer posted in Parenting
Years ago, when my son was small, he got molluscum contagiosum. I have no idea where he got it. I am not generally skived out by much. We moms put ourselves in the firing line of all manner of gross. Snot" Vomit" Lice" We got it.
But warts" Not a fan. My pediatrician examined him. He told me it was molluscum. I looked blank.
?Warts,? he said.
?Oh,? I said. ?How"?
I became a little obsessed with understanding where he had picked them up. Could it have been the pool" (It did not matter in the least where they came from but, in that way that we do, I began to perseverate as they began to spread).
I had a lot to learn.
Molluscum is a common skin virus that causes warts. There is not a lot to be done to treat it.
It is harmless. By all objective standards there is nothing to worry about.
Molluscum usually resolves itself.
It does not hurt.
Depending on the age of the child, they may not even know to be self-conscious about it.
Other parents are harder. They saw us coming. They seemed concerned. I sympathized. I did not want to spread molluscum around anymore than they wanted to be exposed.
But the thing of it is that molluscum is so highly contagious that it is almost impossible to completely dodge. Cases may be mild and so quick-to-resolve that it's possible a parent never noticed. If that is the case, consider yourself lucky.
We did all that we could. We covered the areas of his body that were affected. We eve...
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