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Molluscum contagiosum - Management
Basis for recommendation
This recommendation is based on the United Kingdom national guideline on the management of molluscum contagiosum (2007) from the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV [BASHH, 2008].
- A retrospective case note review of people attending a genito-urinary medicine clinic for molluscum contagiosum showed concurrent sexually transmitted infections in 23.2% of men and 10.5% of women [Fitzgerald et al, 2002].
- Condoms will offer partial protection. The molluscum virus does not need mucous membranes for transmission, and will spread by skin contact [Tyring, 2003].
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