Molluscum Contagiosum
Your child is not required to remain at home.
Cause/Symptoms:
Transmission:
Incubation:
Period of Communicability:
- Virus
- Skin infection with small flesh-coloured or translucent bumps with sunken centre, most often on face, trunk, or limbs of children
- Can be found on genitalia. May cause itchiness
Transmission:
- Person to person by direct skin to skin contact or indirect contact, such as sharing clothes or towels
Incubation:
- 2 to 7 weeks, but can be as long as 6 months
Period of Communicability:
- Unknown, but probably as long as warts persist
We can discuss your child's return to daycare once all the following criteria has been met:
- Your child is allowed in daycare as long as it is covered up
Your child is not required to remain home.