Treatment of Extensive Eyelid Molluscum Contagiosum with Physical Expression Alone in an Immunocompetent Child

• Published in: Turk oftalmoloji gazetesi Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 158 - 160
• Main Authors: Gamze Öztürk Karabulut, Can Öztürker, Pelin Kaynak, Serpil Akar, Ahmet Demirok
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Galenos Yayinevi 01.03.2014
• Subjects: childhood molluscum contagiosum; eyelid molluscum contagiosum; Molluscum contagiosum
• ISSN: 1300-0659; 2147-2661
• DOI: 10.4274/tjo.15013

Molluscum contagiosum is a common viral skin infection in children with dome-shaped umbilicated nodules. Diagnosis is based on clinical appearance. An eight-year-old child presented to our clinic with multiple molluscum contagiosum nodules on the right lower and upper eyelid and one small papule on the left upper eyelid. Only a couple of lesions were squeezed with expression of cheesy material from the center of the lesions. In the follow-up period, beside resolution of the squeezed lesions, all other lesions disappeared spontaneously and no new lesion was observed in the following one year. This method is costless, neither needs a chemical agent nor results in scarring, so can be the first choice of treatment. (Turk J Ophthalmol 2014; 44:158-60)