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
  

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.