Aloha Linda,

My son had these all over.  They are quite contagious.  They are itchy, so it
makes them easy to spread over the body through scratching and can be spread
from person to person.  The dermatologist we saw used an instrument (I
believe it had a little loop at the end) to scrape them all off.  My son
found that only the large ones caused him some pain during the scraping.  The
little ones did not hurt at all.  He was 9 at the time and sat through it--he
had a lot.  Still, the procedure did not take that long.

I am not sure about scraping them off the nipples though, but I would think
it possible.  Once they were scraped off, there was no worry of spreading.
The concern was getting the "core" out of each one.

Aloha,
Gloria Thai

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