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We would like to live in a healthy world, without ever visiting doctors, without ever taking pills. However, when we are very healthy we sometimes forget about rules, sometimes about elementary rules governing our sexual life. This is the main reason of sexually transmitted diseases occurrence.

Molluscum Contagiosum is one of them. As the Latin name of the infection may give you a hint, this is contagious. The disease is a kin infection, common among humankind, and it is usually benign. The categories of the people who can be contaminated are the children as well as sexually active adults, and immune-depressed patients.

The disease is caused by a molluscipox virus. This is different from the other virus in its family because this kind produces sudden wounds that look like swellings of the skin and not papules. The outbreak occurs at the mucous level and at the skin level as well. At the beginning of the 19th century, Bateman first described this infection. The skin level manifestations vary.

It produces small bumps in different sizes. It can be as big as head of a pin up to the size of a pepper seed. The lump can be round or curved. It may come as the same colour of the skin. They are firm to the touch. A number of lesions can be produced, numbering from one to a dozen. When squeezed, they secrete a whitish sticky substance akin to paste.

Pressing the bumps is not advisable because it will cause the infection to spread to the nearby areas of the skin. This becomes a common affliction of kids when they often use public swimming pools and borrow each others towels. Kids with low level of immunity are also prone to the illness. Regardless of this illness being self-limited, the indications should not be disregarded and left without treatment.

Individuals who are immune-depressed will not be able to deal with the infection easily because as the lumps burst, the ensuing substance from the lesions brings with it the virus which could easily infect other parts of the skin. For this reason, kindergarten schools or days care centres do not accept children who have wounds caused by this virus.

This infection can be treated in various ways. There are available medications especially for this infection or it can be removed through surgery. If the individual is not suffering from low immune syndrome, the disease can be healed by itself in a few months, however if the situation is otherwise, then the infection can take years to heal.

You must be aware when using other people's towels, or when you decide to go swimming, pay attention to the location and the conditions of the public pool you intend to use. This disease spreads through direct contact, as well as through sexual contact with an infected person. Basic rules of hygiene as well as more attention paid to the places you visit or the objects you use or your sex partners can prevent an unpleasant affection.

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