Molluscum Contagiosum (Non-Planter Warts)
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
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
