Spread of contagious mollusk
This disease, whose causative agent is the Molluscus Contagiosum virus, can be infected with two ways: sexual (adults) or domestic (adults and children). As a rule, he amazes people with a weakened immunity who have suffered serious diseases or HIV-infected. Contact contagious molluste occurs when direct contact with the patient, through household items and water, for example, when visiting the pool.
Most often, the contagious mollusk gets large-scale distribution in children's institutions. This is due to the fact that the immune system in kids is only formed and its protective functions are reduced. However, adults, such as masseurs, people visiting sports halls, as well as fans of public baths and saunas, are also included in the risk group. In the latter, the probability of infection is especially large, because heat and elevated humidity are a favorable medium to spread the virus.
In order to prevent the infection of those surrounding, patient, up to complete healing, there must be some simple rules: not combing pimples, stick the plaster affected areas, men should not be shaved (if the skin is amused), avoid sex contacts and use individual personal hygiene items. In case the nodule was randomly damaged, it is necessary to make it burnt it with a diamond green - this will help prevent further propagation of contagious mollusk to other areas of the skin.
Symptoms of the disease
Contantagious mollusk is not able to cause the body of great harm, but the MPsovs strongly recommends consulted by the dermatologist. This necessity is caused by the fact that the external signs of the disease are quite similar to manifestations Syphilisa, Red flat deprived, genital herpes, windmill And others. And if you consider that the contagious mollusk almost always affects HIV-infected people, then making a number of analyzes are simply necessary, because the listed diseases need urgent drug treatment.
The diagnostics itself is quite simple: the dermatologist will easily provide a diagnosis based on visual inspection. If he has doubts, he can assign:
- Histological study of the cells of the epidermis, which will allow confirming or refute the presence of molluscular calf in the cytoplasm;
- Microscopic examination of the contents of papules for the presence of a ovoid taurus in it characteristic of this disease.
Treatment of contagious mollusk
When the diagnosis is installed and completely excluded not only similar on the symptoms of the disease, but also tumors (both benign and malignant), it's time to start treating. But you need to consider that the contagious mollusk does not always need to be treated. Experienced specialists believe that a healthy body is able to cope with this virus independently for six months and initially make a bet on its internal resources, without appropriate drugs. However, if for some reason a person does not recover or such an approach in this particular case is impossible, the patient offers the following treatment options:
- Mechanical scraping papural with a folkman tweezers or spoons, followed by the processing of the wound with iodine or hydrogen peroxide. This method, under local anesthesia, is quite often used to treat children.
- Processing for antiviral formations and immunomodulatory ointments.
- Removing papural with a laser.
- Cutting or coagulation.
- With a large number of papules assign Antibiotics Tetracycline row.
- Crydiquist (destruction of nodules with liquid nitrogen).
In order to speed up the process of recovery, the dermatovenerologist necessarily recommends the multivitamin complex and drugs aimed at increasing the protective functions of the body (immunostimulants). During treatment, it is necessary to adhere to the rules of personal hygiene, carry out wet cleaning (the virus can remain for a long time in home dust) and, of course, examine all family members. By the way, in comparison with herpes, which can not be revealed for a long time, and then give relapses, the contagious mollusk is fully cured, but the immunity is being developed temporary, so it is possible to re-infection.
In folk medicine for the treatment of contagious mollusks, the juice of Cellular, garlic, cramped into a clever and mixed with cream oil or cherry leaves. Also recommended to regularly wash the papulas with a brave brave or apply an ointment of calendula on them.
Contaching Mollusk in pregnant women
During pregnancy, the incubation period at the contagious mollusk is about a month. This is due to the fact that a woman has a significant change in a hormonal background. And although many specialists agree that this virus is not able to influence the development of the fetus, it is still treated. After all, there is a possibility that the baby can get infected from the mother after childbirth, as well as in the breastfeeding period through infected milk.
The treatment of contagious mollusk can be carried out on any gestation and, which is important, without the participation of anesthetics, because modern medicine allows you to remove the nodules absolutely painless and avoid the formation of scars. After removing the papul on the spot, a crust is formed, which at least during the week should be treated with oxoline ointment or iodine, but it is not worth removing it.
