Bump on Face

Could be molluscum. Our daughter has been battling it for 3-4 years, mainly on her face. Hers would start out looking like a red bump, start to look more like a pimple, form a core like a wart, and then form a head that would dry up and fall off. It would form a head 2-3 times before going away. It would take 6+ months for each one to disappear. They normally didn't bother her except for one in the corner of her eye that bothered her when she rubbed her eyes, and one on her cheek that got infected after we were at a water park.

If it is molluscum there isn't much you can do. Let the virus run its course, freeze it, or scrape it. We tried freezing one of her first ones, but she was only 2 and it was close to her eye so the doc didn't want to do too much with it. Freezing didn't work. The one that got infected we did treat with an oral antibiotic. Then a dermatologist scraped it and froze it. The core was huge and the doc thought it might have been the "mother". Once it was gone it cleared up off her face. But at her 7 year check up last week the doc thought some "pimples" on her butt were actually molluscum, too.

Supposedly it is highly contagious, but no one else in our family has had it, no one else at daycare or school ever got it. I would take her in and see what the doc says.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/molluscum-c...

My son had something like this after a particularly bad virus. We treated it with a prescription antibiotic ointment per dr instructions and that cleared it up.

K.,

I would take her to the pediatrician. It could be a virus - and nothing will work to make it go away except time.

I did read ahead - I don't think it's molluscum, as it USUALLY has a pit or dimple...like my son had...here's a link.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/molluscum/faq/everyone.htm...

It could be a cold sore - which is the herpes virus - has she already had the chicken pox or was she vaccinated?

Call your advice nurse and see what he/she says!

Good luck!

My initial thought is a minor skin infection caused by nose-wiping with the cold. Have you tried putting some antibiotic on it?

Another thought, if it's more red around the edges and less red in the middle, is ringworm. If her skin was irritated from the cold, it's more susceptible to ring worm.

I think if it were me, I'd try the antibiotic for a few days and if it doesn't go away, have the ped look at it just in case.