{"id":483,"date":"2006-02-15T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/15\/mollescum-contagiosum-question\/"},"modified":"2007-06-16T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T02:50:28","slug":"mollescum-contagiosum-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/mollescum-contagiosum-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Mollescum Contagiosum Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dermatologist remove a mild case of mollescum contagiosum.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been said that burning them off causes less scarring than freezing them, mostly because the heat can be applied with greater precision. The downside is that burning hurts a lot for a few moments, while freezing is only mildly uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he didn&#8217;t want to burn them off with heat because of the potential danger to both of us by putting the virus in the air via the smoke during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>After he went ahead and froze it off and left the office, I thought of a question. Why not simply use a vacuum and air filter to pull contaminated air away from the burn site? Surely such simple safety measures are available.<\/p>\n<p>I think he didn&#8217;t want to burn it off because he doesn&#8217;t own a heat-burner-thing. Hmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dermatologist remove a mild case of mollescum contagiosum. It&#8217;s been said that burning them off causes less scarring than freezing them, mostly because the heat can be applied with greater precision. The downside is that burning hurts a lot for a few moments, while freezing is only mildly uncomfortable. He said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}