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MD, FAAD, FAAP

How does the cantharidin applicator work?

Warts And Molluscum

You. It's a beautiful device in which you have a very narrow tapered end and so you're provided with a standardized braking tool in which you'd lay it on a flat surface. You would put the device inside and just bring the lever down and it'll snap. There's an ampule inside that will break safely, a glass ampule inside. And then you'll be able to see this purple tinged, it's tinged with gentle violet. So you'll be able to see the actual therapy, a purple tinge liquid that will then with some pressure that you apply which allows you to control, get the medication through a very narrow tapered end which give you precise application. So you have really nice precision on the moluscam lesion you're treating because as we know, molascam lesions can be rather large or small. They vary in size on a given individual oftentimes. And so you really can apply the amount of pressure you need to lightly and gently coat each molluscum lesion.