Since Conner was about 6 months old he started developing what I thought were warts. When the first one came I was pretty disappointed. Since warts run in my family I figured we were in for some outrageous ones if he was going to start getting them this early. Look what my niece Emma had to go through to get a few warts on her hand removed.
Although the warts were big they weren't like this. This picture is after she had to have chemo medicine injected into them when all else failed.
And this shows some of the reaction her body had to that procedure.
Can you see why I was worried? Then when another one started popping up each week I was really getting concerned. Finally now his back looks like this and he has a few on his arms and hand.
I know you can't really see them but it was hard to get a picture. He has probably 20-30 on his body.
Every now again something pops up on his face that looks like one too but so far those have all disappeared quickly. So I was anxious for his 9 month check up to find out what we were going to do about this. Thankfully, right off the doctor says, "Those aren't warts, thats Molluscum Contagiosum". He gave me a quick run down and off course I googled it to make sure he wasn't leaving anything important out. Thankfully it is just some virus that is common in kids and completely harmless. I don't know how he got it, it had to be direct contact with someone with it or an object that someone with it used. But the good news is they should go away in 6-12 months. Now my sister, who I won't name but I'm sure everyone can guess by her cruelty, can stop calling him WB (aka wart boy!)
P.S. I apologize to my sister in laws whose babies were around him this weekend. I didn't know until today that he has something contagious (although at this point he may not be contagiours anymore) or I would have been more careful about letting him touch your children and their stuff. It sounds like there has to be direct contact with a papule (most of which were always covered by his clothing), not just him and not his saliva. Don't worry though, it shouldn't be too contagious since his babysitter's daughter hasn't caught it in the last 3 months and she gets all over him!
2 comments:
um yikes! I hate skin stuff!! I hope he gets better soon! I started racking my brain for reasons why the babies would have made that type of contact. Should be ok though. It was fun seeing you guys!
Glad he is going to be ok and not wb anymore!
Let me just clarify, Emma looked like that after her 9th different type of treatment, that was just an allergic reaction to c-squaric acid...the chemotherapy injections worked like a charm and she didn't look like that. So, sometime down the road should this be a problem for him, it will only be 30 seconds of pain and then he will be good to go! :)
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