All you need to know about molluscum contagiosum: routes of infection, symptoms, treatment

Molluscum contagiosum is classified as a form of skin dermatosis. Clams on the skin and are considered viral parasitic disease, which is characterized as local precipitation, and total precipitation on the surface of the skin and mucous membranes, in the form of small spherical bubbles having a Central recess. It was first described by Bearmanor almost 200 years ago.

First, it is infection that is chronic. Causing damage to the skin, the infection can persist from several months to several years, but most often, rashes can be seen from six months to nine months.

Secondly, contagious dermatosis — a disease purely human, no animal would not suffer, but the infection occurs from contact (hence the name) is already infected person with a healthy.

Thirdly, the causative agent is a virus which belongs to the smallpox virus. The replication of the virus occurs in the cytoplasm of cells. Form oval or rectangular.

Ways of infection

1. Touching the skin, sexual partners pass each other, but the sexual act itself is not the path of infection, so in many countries molluscum contagiosum is not considered a sexually transmitted infection. In this situation, the area of infection localized in the inner thighs, groin, stomach.
2. The second way of infecting the household. Taking things a sick person can get infected, but in this case, no local lesions, and the rash can appear in any area, mostly it appears on hands and face.
3. Children's collectives. Here the determining factor is the crowding and close contact, which in turn can lead to epidemics.

The symptoms of molluscum contagiosum

After infection, the incubation period can last from two weeks to a couple of months, and to identify the source of infection is sometimes difficult. Once the clinical manifestations appear in the form of single bubbles of spherical shape, without seals and skin changes, it begins a gradual process of samsarajade. The number of bubbles increases, and they increase in size from a small grain of millet to a medium pea. As the progression of the disease, the vesicles may coalesce, forming a huge hemispherical papules with deepening in the centre. It papules are the main feature of the disease, and their localization indicates the place where an infection has taken place. In adults the genital area, abdomen, inner thighs. In children, limbs, face, torso. For papules is characteristic:

1. Itching;
2. Tight, flesh-colored, have a hemispherical shape and small size;
3. The core of white, waxy;
4. Over time the papules are softened.

After the first stage of infection and the appearance of the first bubbles, the second stage begins when using hands constantly samsarajade, so the bubbles cover most of the torso in random order, and their number could reach hundreds. Constant scratching increases the number of lesions. Accidentally hitting or damaging the bottle, there is a secretion of whitish, casertano mass consisting of lymphocytes and dead cells, in the form of Taurus shellfish, hence the name.

Existing symptoms atypical forms of molluscum contagiosum may not show the concave shape of the nodules, and the nodules are very small. Profuse form of the disease usually observed in children suffering from leukemia, atopic dermatitis, immunodeficiency and HIV.

Diagnosis

To diagnose the disease allow laboratory studies and clinical picture of the disease. If you doubt the diagnosis, performedthe contents of the nodules. Molluscum contagiosum necessarily differencebut with warts, basal cell carcinoma, chickenpox, syringomas, pustular syphilis, hydrocystoma, keratoacanthomas.

Treatment

Skin molluscum usually is not treated. About six months need a healthy body to fight the infection. It is this focus dermatologists not to overload the body with drugs. But to speed up recovery use the following methods of treatment that are selected individually for each patient:

1. Cauterization or surgical diathermy.
2. Scraping or squeezing of the nodules with an iodine treatment.
3. Application of antiviral ointments.
4. Abundant precipitation and emptying bubbles require treatment with antibiotics that the physician prescribes.

Treatment at home — dangerous

Treatment of molluscum on the skin without a diagnosis and in the home is dangerous, and is caused by:

1. There is a danger to miss a serious skin disease, such as malignant or benign growths on the skin;
2. Some forms of molluscum contagiosum occur in conjunction with AIDS, so in such cases, require special forms of treatment.

Molluscum contagiosum, the virus with DNA, causing difficulties in treatment. The level of medicine today is not possible to completely get rid of the disease. But to avoid relapse is quite possible, despite the fact that this disease has a chronic course. This requires regular visits with a doctor and carry out a continuous therapy, which is the General strengthening of the immune system. With the right approach to treatment, it is possible to achieve stable remission and a favorable prognosis.

Prevention

Prevention of molluscum contagiosum is mainly in the exclusion of the causes of the disease:

• Personal hygiene and hygiene of the home. At the first symptoms, patients should be restricted to contacts, select personal stuff hygiene-daily change underwear and bed linen.
• Bathhouses, saunas and swimming pools. After a visit to the public baths and swimming pools, it is necessary to carefully monitor the condition of the skin, and at the first suspicion immediately consult a doctor!
• School and preschool. Kindergartens are especially dangerous in the sense that the distribution of the cutaneous molluscum in children's groups is very fast, covering virtually the entire group. Therefore, the baby should be regularly checked.
• Intelligibility in sexual relations.

Following the simple guidelines, you can almost completely protect yourself from molluscum contagiosum.