Molluscum Contagiosum
(Non-Planter Warts)

Your child is not required to remain at home.

Cause/Symptoms:

• 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.
  

Your child can return to daycare once all the following criteria has been meet:

• Your child is allowed in daycare as long as it is covered up
  

Your child is not required to remain home.