Firstly, a dermatologist needs to see this, to assess whether it is really molluscum. Self-diagnosis is hardly ever a good thing to do, even if you are a medical professional yourself.<\/p>\n
There is very detailed information about molluscum (including on treatment) at the following link: A more detailed overview is available from the US CDC here<\/a>, Johns Hopkins HIV site here<\/a> and HIV inSite here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Please note that thuja is not a treatment that would normally be used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi i-base,<\/p>\n I was diagnosed HIV+ just under 3 years ago and started combination therapy 5 months ago.<\/p>\n I recently broke out in a case of what I believe to be Molluscum contagiosum on my face and have been looking into treatment.<\/p>\n Could you please provide some information on Molluscum contagiosum in HIV+ patients and the complications of taking thuja, which I have opted for, in treatment of such warts.<\/p>\n I am currently taking Truvada, ritonavir and Reyataz.<\/p>\n Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-opportunistic-infections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/www.aidsinfonet.org\/fact_sheets\/view\/513<\/a><\/p>\n