What Is Molluscum Contagiosum?
3. Scratching
Molluscum contagiosum will usually infect a single area to begin with, causing a single bump. However, many people will scratch and rub these bumps, and this can cause other areas of the skin to become infected also. At the peak of the disease, the patient can have the bumps all over their body.
The bumps will be itchy in some cases, and it can be very difficult to avoid scratching them. This, in turn, means that the bumps are more likely to be spread to other parts of the body. It is not uncommon for the bumps to appear on the patient’s face from touching their face after scratching a bump elsewhere on their body.
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