Treating Molluscum with Tea Tree Oil
It has now been over 6 weeks since our last doctor’s visit. My daughter’s molluscum warts seem to be getting better and not one of them has become infected like before.
We have been dealing with molluscum (a viral, pearl like wart that doctors say will go away on its own) for almost a year. In the past the cycle has been that a new outbreak would occur, with 2-5 new molluscum appearing. Usually one of these molluscum would end up getting extremely infected before it erupted and went away. Because they were getting so infected, I had to keep taking my daughter into the doctors where they would lance the molluscum, drain the infection, send it off to be tested (because my doctor is obsessed with MRSA) and then put her on antibiotics.
I didn’t feel like this vicious cycle was getting any better and frankly, I don’t like my kids being on antibiotics on a regular basis.
After doing more research and consulting with my doctor, we came up with a plan that seems to be working.
On Sunday evenings when I bathe my daughter, once we are done with all the hair washing, my doctor recommended adding 2-3 tablespoons of bleach to her bath water. I add the bleach and she continues to soak for 5-10 minutes. This helps to eliminate any bacteria on the outside of the skin.
Every morning and evening, she plays dot-to-dot with a cotton swab and Tea Tree Essential Oil . The tea tree oil has its own natural antibiotic and antifungal properties.
The combination of the two treatments really seems to be working. The molluscum are smaller, they are crusting over on their own and much quicker, and we have not had one get infected for almost two months.
GET THE UPDATE: The molluscum are finally gone!
Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Char
Filed under: It Works For Me, Molluscum, Skin issues
I’m really glad you’ve found something thats working for her. I love the idea of giving her control of dabbing the tea-tree oil on.
I’ve got some Tea Tree Oil comments in the link I provided w/this comment.
Just in case you wanted to see what others were saying about it.
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Just a thought, if I were you I would not be adding bleach to my childs bath water. On the back of bleach bottles it specifically states to not allow the chemical to come in contact with your skin and to immediatly wash with water if it does.
Tea tree oil is a natural anti-septic that will kill any germs or bacterial that are on her skin or in the bath water. You can add the oil simply to the bath and remove the bleach all together. You can use lavendar oil as well which is a natural disenfectant.
I am not passing judgment at all, its just there are others things to add to the water and let her soak in that will kill germs and not your baby.
Just a thought.
Cami – the amount of bleach that goes in to the bath water is extremely small – it is very diluted but does work. I always recommend you consult your family doctor first, but this did work for us.
Tea tree oil is wonderful and I never thought to use it on its own directly in the bath. Luckily our course of treatment did work and my daughter has been molluscum free for two years.