My 4 year old son has raised bumps on his right back leg. Some are large and some are tiny but all have a white head on them. He's had them for about 6 months now but they never hurt until recently. I thought they were warts but had not treated them. They recently have turned red/inflamed. He says they've started to hurt and when I put cream (from local health store) on them, he says they hurt to the touch but the cream makes them feel better. I've searched the net but can't figure out what they are. One of the bumps is hard under the skin and doesn't have a white head (so it may be a different issue all together).
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Q: Raised bumps on son's back leg - not warts or bug bites but can't figure out what they are. HELP
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6/18/10 10:39pm
Well it sound like pimples becauses when i had pimples they were red and had a white head and they hurt me too. because the pimple was in a sesitive area and behind his leg is an senstive area for him all he needs to do is let them go through their stage and they will pop or try poping them and the underneath bumps just leave alone intel a white head appears and that tells you that it is ready to be popped. And it isn't a wart because i had warts on my finger and i freezed them off and warts don't have white head or isn't underneath his skin. Warts are versues what appears above the skin and the only way to get rid of the warts is freeze them off and take it to the germantyist but with the pimps just let them go through their stage and when don't put lotion on pimps it will irrate them.
6/21/10 9:58am
Well that is good that the dermatologist helped you guys out and i bet your son is happy that it is gone :) and i never heard about Molluscum and it is contagious and spreads well it is like poison ivy? but at least it is gone and i bet those 4 months were long for u and him :) but at least it is gone. and for me i am getting ride of my blisters the nurse helped out and said for me to take a baking soda bath and i did it dried up my blisters and my mom started to pill the blisters off and it didn't hurt now i am useing that one stuff what heals your skin and stuff and this other stuff what gets rid of sun burn but hopefully it would be gone by thursday :)
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Well, acutally, I took him to a dermatologist shorty after my post. It turns out he had molluscum. It's contagious and spreads. He was treated in the office 3 times and it took about 4 months for it to go away completely.